Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is an adventure developed by Yacht Club Games, released 9 December 2019 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
What Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is an adventure game developed by Yacht Club Games and released in 2019. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shovel Knight is a platform game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. Development was crowdfunded and the game was released for Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Windows in June 2014. It was ported to OS X and Linux in September 2014, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox One in April 2015, Amazon Fire TV in September 2015, and Nintendo Switch in March 2017. Shovel Knight is inspired by gameplay and graphics of platformer games developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 138 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 122 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 ghz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove launched on 9 December 2019, within three weeks of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Football Manager 2020 and Arise: A Simple Story. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Football Manager 2020, Arise: A Simple Story.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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