Shovel Knight Dig
Skip · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 5.1h 29.3h to 100%
- Value
- $4.90/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 909 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself on a quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in this standalone Shovel Knight adventure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 500MB Video Memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
21 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 68 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Blazing Beaks ($14.99, scores 54) and Revita ($2.54, scores 54) both outscore it.
More about Shovel Knight Dig
This site sampled 504 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 107 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 165 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 29, 5.7 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
96% start to 22% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
eh it isn't as fun as i thought i repeat the same sections over and over again and don't feel like i'm getting any stronger. the lack of ability to bind mouse keys is also amateur
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Just kind of boring, there's rarely any variety in runs and I see no reason to get anything more than health upgrades and cogs while zooming to the end of the stage. It doesn't have anything super engaging in its levels, more often than not they feel like gimmicks rather than a fun new thing to play around! same goes for the bosses: they are so dumbed down compared to the original game (I assume to not make them a...
The most damning thing I can say about this game is that it's a roguelike with a tiny item pool. Even after unlocking everything, there's a very good chance you'll have the opportunity to get almost if not every item in the game on a given run at least once. And despite that, there's huge variance in the usefulness of any given item-you could get complete and total immunity to any and all floor spikes...or you could...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shovel Knight Dig scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1416050/shovel-knight-digReviews 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.