Shovel Knight Dig coming to Switch and PS5 Physical courtesy of Super Rare Games

Today, Super Rare Games, Nitrome, and Yacht Club Games announced that Shovel Knight Dig is getting a physical release on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5.

Super Rare Games is heading underground with Nitrome and Yacht Club Games to bring you Shovel Knight Dig!

Coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch™ and PlayStation®5 in physical format! 🪏

When Drill Knight and his dastardly digging crew blast apart Shovel Knight’s peaceful campsite and steal his loot, he grabs his trusty Shovel Blade and starts tunneling after them!

Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in Shovel Knight Dig, an all-new Shovel Knight adventure!

📅 Release Date: 8th January 6pm GMT (10am PST/1pm EST). 

4000 Nintendo Switch & 2500 PS5 Standard Editions available for sale worldwide at Super Rare Games. 

💎 An all-new presentation featuring a new Shovel Knight story! When Drill Knight and his dastardly digging crew blast apart Shovel Knight’s peaceful campsite and steal his loot, he grabs his trusty Shovel Blade and starts tunneling after them!

👾 The first Shovel Knight adventure in glorious high color pixel graphics and sound. Fluid animation, scaling, rotation, and parallax create the most convincing Shovel Knight world yet! 

🔄️ Every adventure is different! Shovel Knight Dig levels have been meticulously crafted, then stitched together using proprietary generation techniques for infinite replayability.

🪏 Jump, slash, and dig your way in an all-new direction - down! Rely on your trusty Shovel Drop, then dig through huge swaths of dirt with all-new Speed Shovel mechanics.

🦾 Grow in power and wealth as you descend into the depths of the earth. Emerge with untold riches to outfit Shovel Knight further, unlocking permanent items and upgrades to your Shoveling equipment.

⚜️ New Knights, new characters, and new enemies abound, but fear not! Shovel Knight Dig features Shovel Knight’s signature storytelling, humor, and maybe even some familiar faces

🎵 Another pulse-pounding soundtrack in a new style by astonishing virtuoso Jake Kaufman!

🤝 The first collaboration between Yacht Club Games and Nitrome, pixel masters!

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