Shovel Knight: King of Cards Reviews

Shovel Knight: King of Cards is ranked in the 93rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
8.5 / 10.0
Dec 9, 2019

Yacht Club Games continues to dig up gold with Shovel Knight: King of Cards, despite a momentum slowing card game.

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9 / 10.0
Dec 12, 2019
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8 / 10
Dec 10, 2019

Shovel Knight: King of Cards repeats some elements from previous entries, but it ultimately delivers one of the largest and more refined expansions in the series yet.

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USgamer
Top Critic
Dec 9, 2019

Shovel Knight: King of Cards revisits the formula one last time with new maps and bosses, as well as a brand new card game. It's ambitious, but it's also the least essential of the major Shovel Knight episodes. If you own Treasure Trove, play Shovel of Hope and Specter of Torment first, then circle back to King of Cards if you still want more.

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Dec 9, 2019

Like each campaign before it, King Knight’s quest is a uniquely thrilling 2D experience that needs no asterisk assigned to any praise. This isn’t a retro throwback or an NES hanger-on, but a masterful platforming action that stands up to any and all contemporaries.

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10 / 10.0
Dec 9, 2019

This is a historic moment for Shovel Knight: half a decade later, I can recommend picking up anything and everything Shovel Knight related, which is easy to do with the Treasure Trove compilation. Yacht Club Games has a lot to be proud of and has accomplished a lot in their short run, and I can't wait to see what they come up with next.

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80 / 100
Dec 10, 2019

King of Cards is, without doubt, the most risky expansion of all of them. It brings brand new elements, as a complete card game (with collectible cards and fully playable) or a main character that plays very different from the previous ones, but as a whole it doesn't astound at the same level that Shovel Knight did up today.

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9 / 10
Dec 18, 2019

It's also a strong way to put the Shovel Knight saga to bed, essentially bringing everything full-circle in such a way that it encourages players to go right back to the original Shovel Knight story. King of Cards is aces, in ways I never expected it to be.

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Dec 9, 2019

Yacht Club Games has delivered once again in the latest expansion for Shovel Knight thanks to exciting gameplay and level design that proves Shovel Knight: King of Cards was well worth the wait.

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8.5 / 10.0
Dec 9, 2019

Shovel Knight: King of Cards is a glorious, flowing, challenging addition to the series. There's more to do, and more to love - and love it you will.

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89 / 100
Dec 14, 2019

Shovel Knight: King of Cards is the proverbial cherry on top of a massive sundae that I’ve enjoyed thoroughly, and I know I’ll look forward to revisiting it in its entirety in the future as well.

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9 / 10
Mar 18, 2020

Shovel Knight: King of Cards continues the series' route in bringing more and more exquisite expansions to the original game. A crowning achievement of the Shovel Knight series, this expansion adds some very original new levels, a welcome new character with new mechanics and the series' trademark art style and sound environment. King of Cards is the expansion that Shovel Knight could want the most and it's recommended without any reservation to all Nintendo Switch owners.

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10 / 10.0
Dec 17, 2019

Yacht Club Games proves that their final Shovel Knight expansion, King of Cards, is no fool's gold by making their best game to date.

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9.5 / 10.0
Dec 9, 2019

Like its brethren before it, Shovel Knight: King of Cards features some of the best platforming game design ever seen in a video game.

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4.5 / 5.0
Dec 9, 2019

It’s incredible that Yacht Club Games has finally reached the finish line on their most popular title, but it was a worthy sendoff for the first saga of a franchise that revolutionized the indie video game space.

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9 / 10
Dec 9, 2019

This is likely the last we’ll see of the ‘core’ Shovel Knight series for some time, and King of Cards acts as a worthy swansong for a now-legendary platformer. Bravo.

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9 / 10
Dec 9, 2019

For its last platformer chapter, the Shovel Knight series let us play through the Monty Python King Knight, a wanabee king travelling the world to defeat its potential adversaries. Through this lovely pixel art adventure, the players will alos discover the Joustus, a card game within the game, for ever more fun in every tavern of this grotesque world.

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7.5 / 10.0
Dec 22, 2019

King of Cards is another excellent addition to the Shovel Knight saga - an exciting and grand finale for the series.

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DottorKillex
Top Critic
8.6 / 10.0
Dec 12, 2019

King of Cards is the better Shovel Knight campaing yet, and a great goodbye to this wonderful series of games. We really look forward to Yacht Club Games' next work, be it Shovel Knight 2 or else.

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7.5 / 10.0
Dec 9, 2019

Shovel Knight: King of Cards is a master-class in platforming, design, pixel art, and much, much more. Offering a good amount of new content, as well as the all-new card mini-game, Joustus, you have an overall package that is hard not to recommend, even if good portions of this feel wholly the same as the original Shovel Knight and its successive releases.

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