
The player controls the eponymous Shovel Knight character, who wields a sharpened shovel that is used to attack enemies, destroy barriers, and dig up treasures. The color scheme used adheres to the Nintendo Entertainment System's original color palette, and includes visual touches such as parallax scrolling.


The game features 8-bit graphics designed to resemble classic games.

Shovel Knight is a 2D side-scrolling platform game. Shovel Knight was directed by former WayForward Technologies member Sean Velasco, and includes music composed by Jake Kaufman and Manami Matsumae. A date is yet to be announced for European release. The game was released worldwide for the PC on Jit was released for the 3DS and Wii U in North America on the same date. The game will include English, French, Italian, German and Spanish text right from its initial release, and even more languages will be added through patches at a later point.Shovel Knight is a 2014 action platformer video game developed and published by independent developer Yacht Club Games for the Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and personal computer platforms. Velasco says that the Europe release of Shovel Knight is coming “really, really soon”. Most of these features were initially announced back when Shovel Knight’s Kickstarter campaign concluded. Additionally, the Wii U version will get an exclusive 4-player couch battle mode. In addition to the new playable characters, Shovel Knight will also get a gender-swap mode, whereby all the male characters will become female, and vice-versa. The gameplay will be 95% the same, but it’s going to be a big thing.” “We’re going to have playable campaigns featuring Plague Knight, King Knight and Spectre Knight, in their own campaign with their own story. “Every three to four months, we want to drop a new update after the initial release of the game,” Velasco confirmed to NOE.

Speaking with Nintendo of Europe, director Sean Velasco discussed add-on content for the game that is currently being prepared for release. Shovel Knight has been out for a few months now, but developer Yacht Club aren’t done with the game yet.
