|OT| Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove - Shovel Knight is complete now

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Shovel Knight | Yacht Club Games


Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the full and complete edition of Shovel Knight, a sweeping classic action-adventure game series with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic! Run, jump, and battle as Shovel Knight, wielder of the Shovel Blade, in a quest for his lost beloved. Take down the nefarious knights of the Order of No Quarter and confront their menacing leader, The Enchantress.

But that’s not everything! Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove also features four additional games all unto themselves! Take control of Plague Knight, Specter Knight, and King Knight on adventures of their own or battle each other in a local four player Showdown. Together, they form a grand and sweeping saga!

With Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, you get it all. Play with a friend in Shovel of Hope's cooperative campaign, test your mettle in full-featured challenge modes, battle together in Showdown, and change the game with Body Swap mode. Uphold the virtues of Shovelry, earn relics and riches, and discover the true meaning of shovel justice!

Includes:

Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope – Steel your Shovel Blade and start digging through the adventure that started it all! Jump, battle foes, and discover treasures as you quest to defeat the Order of No Quarter and their vile leader, The Enchantress.

Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows – Prime your potions and become the maniacal alchemist Plague Knight in his adventure to brew the ultimate potion! Combine bomb parts to create custom loadouts. Discover new items, areas, bosses, and maybe even a bubbling romance.

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment – Summon your scythe in the prequel to Shovel Knight! Take control of Specter Knight to dash through levels completely redesigned around his unique style of play. Climb walls, master a new arsenal of weapons, and slash your foes to ribbons with deathly precision. Become the reaper, discover your tragic past, and recruit the Order of No Quarter!

Shovel Knight: King of Cards - Step into the gilded boots of King Knight in the biggest and most regal Shovel Knight game of them all! Leap, Shoulder Bash, gather new subjects, and strategize your way through this prequel in your quest to become King of Cards!

Shovel Knight Showdown - Duel with up to 4 players locally and scramble after gems, or take control of your favorite character and dig into Story Mode! Master every move, explore a vast array of items and locales, and discover new revelations in this platform fighting game.

Features:
  • Yacht Club Games' beautifully authentic style bridges the gap between yesterday and today. Design, art, and audio hearken back to the days of 8-bit.
  • The systems of today also give Shovel Knight modern touches: detailed animation, multilayered parallax backgrounds, and novel game design.
  • Leap over gaps! Duel with foes! Uncover treasure! Find Secrets! Upgrade! Shovel Knight is simple to learn and play, but the challenge lies everywhere.
  • Multiple awesome soundtracks by Jake "Virt" Kaufman with additional songs by Manami Matsumae!
  • Amass riches to upgrade your armor and weapons.
  • Detailed, living background art and animation! Big, beautiful pixels!
  • Lovable characters and treacherous bosses!
    Balanced gameplay is a warm welcome to newcomers, and an old embrace for experts.
  • A light touch to narrative with humor, levity, and heart.
  • Relive the adventure and uncover all of the world's secrets with New Game+!
  • Challenge Mode - Up the ante in every imaginable way with over 100 full-featured challenges.
  • Body Swap - Did you ever wish Shovel Knight was a lady, or Shield Knight was a guy? Well, now you can designate character genders however you like, with brand new designs for all of the main characters in Shovel of Hope!
  • Co-op! – Grab a friend and play through Shovel of Hope as a fully cooperative adventure! Or uncover Story Mode together in Showdown!






Yacht Club Games has delayed Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Shovel Knight Showdown, and the physical edition of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove from their previously planned April 9 release date by “several months.”


One Last Delay


We have only a bit more work left to do on completing King of Cards and Showdown. The two, brand new, complete games coming to Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. It remains our focus to bring these to the highest level of quality just as we have with previous Shovel Knight games. It’s also our priority to have these games on the disc/card for the upcoming physical version. We need a little more time to make this happen, and so we are pushing the release back one last time. We’re still aiming to release everything at once, so this this delay applies to everything: physical editions, digital update, and Treasure Trove amiibo 3-pack.

How far back?

We estimate several months– at most! This is not a major delay so much as more space to bring everything together for a polished and complete finale. As always, these last steps require coordination with many teams beyond our own.​
We realize the delay is disappointing. To communicate better with everyone moving forward, we will not be announcing a new date until we know one for sure, from all partners involved. All builds shipped out, updates ready to launch, for everybody and everyone. We will announce it for good once it is 100 percent all across the board!

Are the amiibo delayed too?

Yes. We’re eager for the newest knights join everyone’s collection! However, the update which brings support for these new amiibo are connected to the release of the King of Cards. As described above, we need more time before it is ready for release and so we’ll announce when we know for sure. You can also pre-order to get them right when they’re available from Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop.​

There are different dates in different online stores. Are they real?

These dates are placeholders. Stores require and request certain information ahead of time, and we do our best to provide our most accurate guesses at that time! Updating these dates are also not something we can do instantaneously (or seemingly at all sometimes!). We will announce the final release date here on our website once we know for sure. You can also pre-order to get it right when it’s available from Amazon, Best Buy, and Gamestop.​

Coming Soon…!

Since this is not a major delay, we’ll soon be providing more updates, big and small for both Showdown and King of Cards. Keep an eye on our Facebook, Twitter, and this very site! Characters, gifs, and trailers (!?!) await!


This guy looks incredibly trustworthy!

Is this King Knight’s soon-to-be-kingdom?


Spice up your fight with a CPU knight!

So many ways to play! Check out Showdown’s option menu!

Story! But where? That’s not from Specter of Torment... or King of Cards! It’s Showdown! The Shovel Knight saga always has plenty of of parallel story threads.

What’s Going On With Development?

This isn’t new ground given our development style or Shovel Knight’s history. We do our best to set and work toward deadlines, but sometimes additional time is needed. The final phases in particular focus a lot more on play-testing and iteration which is more nebulous to anticipate ahead of time. Except now we’re shoring up multiple games, on more platforms, in more languages, than ever before! Here’s what we’ve been working through:

Two Games

Neither King of Cards or Showdown is sitting idle. We’re making substantial improvements to both with less is in flux each passing day!​

King of Cards Levels

They’re not just the meat and potatoes of Shovel Knight, they’re the dessert, and the appetizer! The brain food to start your day and the snack you crave in the afternoon! King Knight features courses, which are shorter than previous Shovel Knight levels, but much more numerous (more than 30!). We’ve put a huge focus on polishing each course and we hope you enjoy exploring them!
Showdown

Multiple players battling it out, as all their favorite characters, on so many stages, with countless combinations and surprises in the mix! Once characters, stages, and modes landed in a good place we really had our work cut out for the next step of fully realizing it all. Not just this many stages and that many characters, but AI playing on all these stages as (and against) all these characters, in all of these configurations, and featured in their own Story Mode! We approached all this wacky fun very seriously– and now it is nearly complete!​

Platform Tuning

Showdown brings new challenges with multiple players and controllers, AI, larger stages, and more. King of Cards itself is our largest update, and we need to take extra care make it a perfect fit on platforms like the 3DS (at one point, we thought King Knight was so big it might not fit on 3DS!). We’re happy to say this hurdle is cleared! It’s humming along in both performance and memory. We really hope you have a chance to play King Knight’s adventure on 3DS!​

Localization

There’s a whole lotta text in this little 8-bit inspired game, now in nine languages! As always, our localization partners at Words of Magic and 8-4 have been amazing throughout it all! From the most critical puns down to the most trivial plot points. However, this step naturally falls to the final steps of the project, and Shovel Knight’s extra limited resolution can make for extra challenge. Most all of this text is ready and and accounted for, we’re just running more tests. Speaking of…​
Testing

So much testing! These new games are coming to a multitude of platforms. Which means testing King of Cards, our biggest adventure yet, 100 percent, on [Switch, Wii U, 3DS, PS4, PS3, Vita, Xbox One, Windows, Mac, and Linux]! Oh and Showdown, on [Switch, Wii U, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Windows, Mac, and Linux]. But wait, these updates are coming to already released versions of Shovel Knight! Along with bug fixes and new content (like amiibo!). This means testing Shovel of Hope on [Switch, Wii U, 3DS, PS4, PS3, Vita, Xbox One, Windows, Mac, and Linux]. Plague of Shadows on [Switch, Wii U, 3DS, PS4, PS3, Vita, Xbox One, Windows, Mac, and Linux]. Specter of Torment on [Switch, Wii U, 3DS, PS4, PS3, Vita, Xbox One, Windows, Mac, and Linux]. We’ve worked hard over the years to automate and make this process more manageable wherever we can but, at the end of the day, we need to boot up and play all these configurations. Steel thy thumbs!​

These aren’t excuses! We just wanted to provide more context for what we’ve been tackling here. We plan to adopt this “no date until we have a date” style in the future, too. Thanks for sticking with us while we figure it all out!

Last Stop Before Treasure Trove | Yacht Club Games
Last Stop Before Treasure Trove | Yacht Club Games
 
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I don't mind them delaying the update one more time, but damn the Amiibo too?

I've had that preordered since 2017 hoping it would come out 2018, yet here we are for one more delay. I hope Yacht Club can surprise me with King of Cards, but in the meantime I'll be working on my backlog of games while I wait for it come out soon™,
 
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove :: Treasure Trove Last Chance Sale!

15 MAY @ 10:01PM - YACHT CLUB GAMES
Greetings, treasure seekers!

We’re hard at work putting the final touches on King of Cards and Shovel Knight Showdown. After more than 5 years of development, the final pieces of the Shovel Knight saga will be complete! Remember, after the final games are included, the price increases to $39.99 (USD)!

Update on King of Cards + Showdown
Wow, it’s been a long development! With both Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Shovel Knight Showdown we are entering our last laps, heading towards the home stretch, tying up the loose ends, crossing our ‘t’s and dotting our ‘i’s and throwing on one last coat of polish before calling it final! Check out some piping hot new screens from King of Cards!





Don’t forget Shovel Knight Showdown! We’ve put a ton of love into crafting each character, and we can’t wait to show you just how unique everything is. There’s been lots of tweaking and balancing happening in the past few weeks to make sure that every character is somebody’s favorite! We’ve been obsessed with playing the game and our ‘test’ sessions have been hours-long and raucous. We can’t wait to let you get your hands on it! We look forward to seeing who YOUR favorite character is and hearing about your battles!




We’re so sorry it’s taken so long… but we are confident it will be worth it!
 
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King of Cards marks our grandest adventure yet, and we hope the trailer whets your appetite for the banquet of adventure which awaits! It has more levels, mechanics, secrets, and content than any Shovel Knight game to come before it. It’s a spectacle, crammed to the coffers with ideas- it’s the biggest game we’ve ever made, and we can’t wait for everyone to finally, finally play it. We’ve used everything we’ve learned in the past to make this game shine. We hope that you’ll find it both a delightful return and a fitting sendoff to Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove.
Duel with up to 4 players and scramble after gems as your favorite heroic or villainous knight in Shovel Knight Showdown. All the classic Shovel Knight characters you know and love are playable, many for the first time ever! Gather your pals for endless multiplayer clashes, or take control of your favorite character and dig into Story Mode. Familiar controls, items, and mechanics return, making this a platform fighting game that anyone can jump into and try.

 

Li Kao

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We are in mid-november And the best date they can give is a plain ‘December‘ ?
Or maybe this is meant to be shadow dropped during a Nintendo Direct, hence the lack of a specific date. But are there Direct in December usually ?
 

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Played a bit of the original game on Switch, and it was pretty good. One of these days I should continue it, or restart it on PC (probably the latter). The amount of content these devs released for free is mindblowing, and I'd really like to play all of it.
 

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Not that it's a fair comparison on any level, including the immense tech advantage allowing greater scope, visuals, etc, but had this game been released in the late 80's or early 90's it would have been one of the classics listed along side Mega Man and Kirby. Kudos to them making a game of that tier. Even with all the tech and relative ease of development and decades of study on what makes a good game, there are very, very few titles that have recreated that quality of game.
 

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Shovel Knight Treasure Trove is really an unbelievable value.
4 Fully featured, good platforming games. 1 Brawler of questionable value.
1 price.
Seriously for like $40 you can have 4 amazing games and whatever that showdown mode is. Its a fantastic deal and the games are good!
 
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