Shovel Knight
2014 · Yacht Club Games · ~10h to finish
NES difficulty with modern checkpoints — and you can smash the checkpoints for gold, which is the game’s whole attitude in one mechanic.
You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.
The fingerprint
- Punishment drops 0.7 points — you handle this better than most.
- Assist options shave roughly 1.1 points off, if you use them.
These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.
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IGDBWhere it bites
SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULTNo walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.
Assists & accessibility
0/2 SOURCEDCHALLENGE RELIEF
- Generous checkpoints [unsourced]
MOTOR & INPUT
- Fully remappable controls [unsourced]
Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.
What it is
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic.
Where to go from here
Argue with these asksNearest fingerprints in the catalogue. The same demands, a different game.
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