Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

Fair · Action · 2014

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
96% positive
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Price
$39.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
96%
16,910 reviews, as of Sep 16
Metacritic
85
critic score
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2014
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
Raising the score
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement32% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds3 of 656 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

October 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $9.89. Its cuts run 34 percent off as a rule. There have been 57 in the 12 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope ($14.99, scores 70) and Kero Blaster ($9.99, scores 74) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 656 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 918 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.

The drop-off

82% start to 32% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

59 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/250760/shovel-knight-treasure-trove
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Reviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+11
Critics
85
Players
96
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 16,910 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperYacht Club Games
PublisherYacht Club Games
GenreAction
Released2014
Achievements138