Makes sense I guess, the add-on content is free is it not so when the Spectre knight episode gets released they'd raise the price of the base game as it now includes more content.
honestly surprised they didnt do it sooner ... from what i understood they are spliting up each campaign to sell separately, Shovel Knight Treasure Trove being the "complete edition" which will be free for current owner and include every campaign.
Honestly surprise they survived this long and without boosting the price as the game will be now with Specter knight campaignt more than tripple the size of origibnal release
Just started playing this (complete edition) on Nintendo Switch, its truly great
I really prefer these types of games on a hand held though, no idea why really, feels more retro perhaps (first games i played was on the nintendo game&watch).
I really prefer these types of games on a hand held though
got myself GPD Win for such titles
yeah, lately i've been thinking of getting something similar.. but perhaps rather a console type of thing, that can emulate consoles. this one seems decent:
Shovel Knight: King of Cards is the final campaign in the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove saga, and it’s bigger and grander than ever! Play as King Knight, the gilded goon himself, as he travels through 4 new worlds and more than 30 all new courses, on a journey to best the Three Kings who rule over the land. With a high flying spin and a boisterous bash, he can crash through all who would dare stand in his way!
Does King Knight have what it takes to become a ruler? Maybe he can pick it up along the way on this quirky quest! Experience refined platforming, exquisite visuals, new action-packed courses, brand new bosses, and amass a devoted following in Shovel Knight: King of Cards! This campaign is headed for release in 2018.
Good day, brave shovel fighters! We are very excited today to pull back the curtain and announce Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove’s final game!
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.
Shovel Knight Showdown features local only multiplayer, and arrives as a free update to all existing versions of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove on consoles and PC. It will not be available on portable platforms (3DS and Vita). It will also be made available as a standalone game!
Features:
Play as all the key heroes and villains from Shovel Knight, many for the first time ever! Master over 16 playable characters including Shovel Knight, Shield Knight, Black Knight, The Enchantress, and all of the Knights of the Order of No Quarter!
Compete in one-on-one duels, frantic 4 player free-for-alls, and cooperative team battles against AI opponents or your friends in modes like Gem Clash, Showdown, and more!
Battle through Story Mode, a multistage journey customized for each character! Your chosen hero will face a rival, defeat scores of opponents, relax with a minigame or two, and hopefully see their tale completed after an all-new final encounter!
Explore myriad stages inspired by famous characters and locales in Shovel Knight, as well as a plethora of all-new stages.
Prepare and perfect your moves in a full-featured practice mode.
Yacht Club Game’s beautifully authentic style bridges the gap between yesterday and today. Design, art, and audio hearken back to the days of 8-bit, but with a frenetic new coat of paint!
New songs compliment an award-winning soundtrack composed by Jake “Virt” Kaufman.
Balanced and intuitive gameplay is a warm welcome to newcomers, and an old embrace for experts.
Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about King of Cards or the Treasure Trove amiibo 3-pack! We’re nearing the end of development on what is by far our biggest and most grandest singleplayer campaign yet!
Stay tuned for information on the final release date… later this week!
IGN can exclusively reveal that Shovel Knight: King of Cards, the third and final story-based expansion, will be released on April 9, 2019. Shovel Knight Showdown, previously revealed earlier this week by IGN, will also be released on April 9.
Yacht Club Games has delayedShovel 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!
Spoiler:
This guy looks incredibly trustworthy!
Is this King Knight’s soon-to-be-kingdom?
Spice up your fight with a CPU knight!
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So many ways to play! Check out Showdown’s option menu! [/SIZE][/i]
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. [/i]
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!
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.
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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.
The entire Shovel Knight saga...all in one place! The complete edition of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, containing all 5 games in the epic series, is now available!
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