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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

91 25 June 2014

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is an adventure, released 25 June 2014 on Android and Linux.

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What Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove was released in 2014. It is available on Android and Linux.

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.
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How it plays

There are 138 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 96% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 22 points above the year average.

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.

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What it launched against

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove launched on 25 June 2014, within three weeks of Shovel Knight, Divinity: Original Sin, Valiant Hearts: The Great War and Rise of Nations: Extended Edition. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Shovel Knight, Divinity: Original Sin, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.

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.

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Quick answers

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove — frequently asked questions

When did Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove come out?
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove was released on 25 June 2014 for Android and Linux.
What are the minimum PC requirements for Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove?
At minimum, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove needs Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 ghz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM, 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB graphics, 250 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove?
The PC version needs about 0.2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("250 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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