Platforming hero Shovel Knight dons their horned helmet once more on September twenty third when the collection subsequent instalment, Shovel Knight Dig, arrives on Steam. This time, ol’ Shoves and pal Protect Knight are tangling with the nefarious Drill Knight, who’s pinched all of the stuff from their campsite, consider it or not. Devs Yacht Membership Video games enlisted YouTubers Arin Hanson and Jirard ‘The Completionist’ Khalil to announce the sport, and you may watch the trailer beneath.
Shovel Knight Dig is extra of the basic platforming you’d count on from Yacht Membership’s output. Nonetheless, they’ve teamed with prolific UK-based indie dev workforce Nitrome, of Bomb Rooster renown, for it. Dig is a roguelike, with Shovel Knight and Protect Knight having to tunnel their manner down via an “ever-changing chasm of thriller”. The sport’s been in growth for 4 years, so it’s had loads of time within the oven.
Yacht Membership are additionally engaged on retro-styled action-adventure Mina The Hollower, which takes its affect from NES and SNES video games akin to The Legend Of Zelda and Castlevania. Mina The Hollower was introduced in February, passing its Kickstarter purpose inside a day. I’m maintaining a tally of this one when it will definitely releases, however there’s no agency date but.
I can’t consider Shovel Knight’s been round since 2014. The character’s already had a number of video games beneath their belt, together with final 12 months’s Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon. They’ve appeared as a visitor character in shedloads of indie video games too. At this level, the retro-inspired knight is sort of simply retro. Give it one other few years and perhaps we’ll get a 3D reinvention for Shovel Knight 64.
Shovel Knight Dig strikes out on Steam on September twenty third for £21/$25/€25. No Steam web page but peeps, sorry. It’s additionally coming to Apple Arcade and Nintendo Swap.