Shovel Knight Dig similar games & best alternatives

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Shovel Knight Dig

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2022

Should you play it?

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!

What works

  • Tight and satisfying platforming controls
  • Engaging roguelike gameplay with secrets and variety
  • Excellent pixel art and animations
  • Catchy and high-quality soundtrack
  • Charming characters and story elements

Things to keep in mind

  • Game length and replayability considered short by some
  • Some frustrating difficulty spikes and softlocks
  • Limited meta-progression and item variety
  • Occasional unfair enemy placements and hazards
  • Price perceived as high relative to content

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Freedom Planet 2

  • Pizza Tower

  • UnderMine

  • bit Dungeon II

  • Tangy TD

  • The Great Rebellion

Less competitive

Games that feels like Shovel Knight Dig but with less competition against others

  • Blaster Master Zero 2

  • Dungreed

  • Adventures of Pip

  • Cally's Caves 3

  • Super Panda Adventures

  • Aggelos

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Shovel Knight Dig but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

  • Dunjungle

  • Pharaoh Rebirth+

  • Zexion

  • Freedom Planet

  • Nefarious

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment

  • Azure Striker Gunvolt 2

  • Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

  • Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

  • Bomb Chicken

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Shovel Knight Dig. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Shovel Knight Dig. These titles are not in What to play next.

Shovel Knight Dig: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Status. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

Last update: 21/08/2026