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Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon cover art

Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

VINE · Yacht Club Games · 2021-12-13

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ActionAdventureIndie

Franchise: Shovel Knight · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Dec 13, 2021 (Mac), Dec 13, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 13, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 13, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Jun 06, 2023 (iOS), Jun 06, 2023 (Android)

Delve with Shovel Knight into the depths of the Pocket Dungeon in an action-packed puzzle adventure mashup like none other!

4
playing now
90%
positive of 631 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon is a roguelike puzzle game co-developed by Vine and Yacht Club Games, and published by Yacht Club Games. A spin-off of the platform game Shovel Knight, the player takes control of the namesake adventurer as he becomes trapped within a magical artifact, the Pocket Dungeon, and is forced to fight his way out while battling other knights who befell the same fate.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 42% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–28k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 631 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2025-06-26) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

802026-08-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$4.992021-12-132026-07-092021-12-13 — best price $19.992022-06-23 — best price $16.992022-07-29 — best price $15.992022-11-22 — best price $15.992022-12-21 — best price $15.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-02-09 — best price $14.992023-06-05 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $9.992024-02-12 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $11.992024-06-17 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $9.992024-08-12 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $9.992024-12-09 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $9.992025-02-03 — best price $13.482025-02-17 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $13.992025-10-21 — best price $12.992025-11-18 — best price $12.992025-11-28 — best price $11.992025-12-18 — best price $15.992026-03-19 — best price $15.992026-05-17 — best price $7.992026-06-25 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

330132026-05-29 — 330 pageviews2026-06-01 — 197 pageviews2026-06-04 — 139 pageviews2026-06-07 — 63 pageviews2026-06-10 — 58 pageviews2026-06-13 — 40 pageviews2026-06-16 — 45 pageviews2026-06-19 — 39 pageviews2026-06-22 — 43 pageviews2026-06-25 — 36 pageviews2026-06-28 — 43 pageviews2026-07-01 — 25 pageviews2026-07-04 — 26 pageviews2026-07-07 — 34 pageviews2026-07-10 — 28 pageviews2026-07-13 — 28 pageviews2026-07-16 — 26 pageviews2026-07-19 — 43 pageviews2026-07-22 — 25 pageviews2026-07-25 — 17 pageviews2026-07-28 — 20 pageviews2026-07-31 — 23 pageviews2026-08-03 — 29 pageviews2026-08-06 — 17 pageviews2026-08-09 — 21 pageviews2026-08-12 — 31 pageviews2026-08-15 — 19 pageviews2026-08-18 — 22 pageviews2026-08-21 — 20 pageviews2026-08-24 — 17 pageviews2026-08-26 — 18 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
89.1%
earned "Unlock Shovel Knight"
8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,8241%102
PS4 (PlayStation)4125%72
PS4 (PlayStation)2546%72
Switch (Nintendo)1510%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DPvEPvPIndieActionPuzzleStrategyAdventureRogue-liteCompetitive

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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