Dig Knight Dig Shovel Announced, New Knight Shovel: Revealed Treasure Details

Yacht Club Games has announced Shovel Knight Dig, an original game and adventure for Shovel Knight's lead character in 2014, and has also revealed more details about King of Cards, Showdown, Knight's Plague Knight, Specter Knight and King Knight amiibo. New features for Shovel Knight: An invaluable treasure.Added by Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight Dig is also being developed by Nitrome and has been in development for over a year, though it remains "still a lot to make".

After Drill Knight and "his team of crazy sneakers who devastate the peaceful camp of Shovel Knight" and steal his booty, Shovel Knight grabs his shovel blade and starts chasing them. Players will "jump, slash, and dig [their] in Shovel Knight Dig ".

Shovel Knight Dig features "stunning graphics and high-color pixel sounds" and "fluid animation, scaling, rotation and parallax" that make this adventure look more like an SNES game , as opposed to the NES style of the original.

While Shovel Knight Dig's levels have been "meticulously designed," each adventure will be different as they are "assembled using exclusive build techniques for infinite replayability."

As players dig deeper with Shovel Drop and Speed ​​Shovel, they will collect wealth that can be used to improve Shovel Knight. Shovel Knight Dig will also feature new characters and enemies, including Drill Knight and the all-new Spore Knight.

Shovel Knight Dig Screenshots and Key Art

Although no release date has been announced, PAX West participants will be able to try a new demo on Spore Knight's Stage, The Mushroom Mines, which will be playable on Nintendo Switch.

In addition to Shovel Knight Dig, Yacht Club Games has provided new information on King of Cards, Showdown, Amiibo and many more.

The amiibo pack 3 featuring Plague Knight, Specter Knight and King Knight will be available in December 2019 and will unlock new costumes in Boomtech's Shovel Knight – Knight Poom, Knight Knight Knight and Ultimate King Knight.

The amiibo will also make the costumes available in Showdown and unlock new platform challenges in the Challenge mode of each game.

Finally, the amiibo will unlock a girlfriend fairy who will follow the player throughout his adventures.

Among the other new features, Shovel of Hope (Shovel Knight's main campaign) will add a third option for character pronouns, allowing players to choose them as they wish.

Players will be able to gain hope shovel exploits while playing in cooperation. Plague of Shadows now offers an Alchemy Quick Select option and Specter of Torment will win 5 new platform challenges.

Simplified traditional Korean and Chinese languages, as well as other accessibility options, including screen shake reduction and color blind palettes for King of Cards, will also be added.

For the finalists, small flags and medals will appear on the title screen to highlight your achievements, including completing the game and meeting all the challenges.

Knight Shovel: King of Cards and Slaughter Screenshots

Finally, the "King of Cards" campaign is "over and coming", although no additional release date has been given, and that a physical version of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove has announced with PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.

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Adam Bankhurst is a journalist who still believes that Shovel Knight's Specter of Torment is one of the best games he has ever played. You can follow him on Twitter @ AdamBankhurst.