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Press release:

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.

About Shovel Knight Dig:
💎 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!

About Super Rare Games
Super Rare Games strives to be the indie’s best friend. Defined by that mission, we are both a wholly original publisher as well as a publisher of limited physical content for the Nintendo Switch™. We operate alongside our partners to bring the most exclusive offering of the very best indie games to collectors worldwide. From the packaging of the products to opening the limited edition trading cards, we aim to provide gamers with the purest experience. As we continue to expand our collection of games, we hope you join us and grow yours too. You can find out more on the Super Rare Games website, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

For more information, you can check out the official site. Follow Super Rare Games on Twitter for news and updates. A limited number of PR samples will be made available for this release. Please email the SRG Team at [email protected] for press enquiries.