Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.3h 29.4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.65/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 634 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Delve with Shovel Knight into the depths of the Pocket Dungeon in an action-packed puzzle adventure mashup like none other!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 mb video memory, 328 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 25 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Escapists ($17.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms (free, scores 47).
More about Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
This site sampled 346 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 29, 6.8 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
89% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
9/10 Now THIS is a very lovely fast paced puzzle game! I adore how many playable characters there are and the art direction is simply delectable. More than worthy of standing alongside the other entries in the series
1 more review
Good stuff all around. Not one who specializes in puzzle roguelikes but of what I played here I thought it was pretty good.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1184760/shovel-knight-pocket-dungeonReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.