Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,028 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 8.3h for positive, 5.5h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (76.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (45)

• First Purchase Buy your first item. 100%
• Only You Use caution and common sense around campfires. 86%
• Troupple Acolyte Discover the secrets of the Troupple King. 59%
• Hey Big Spender Spend a combined 25000 gold at the shop. 54%
• Halfway Defeat 4 of the Order of No Quarter. 53%
• Nice Hat... Help out all the moochers in the fancy shop. 42%
• Juggler Impress Mona with your skills. 39%
• I'm Alive! Finish any stage without dying. 36%
• Hall Champion Solve the woes of the Hall of Champions. 36%
• Master Angler Successfully fish 5 sparkling fishing spots. 35%
• Master Shoveler Purchase all available Shovel Blade upgrades. 34%
• Well Met Defeat all of the wandering travelers. 34%
• Victory! Finish the game. 31%
• Another Dimension Collect 2000 worth of gold lying on spikes, while using the Phase Locket. 22%
• I Scream For Ichor Sample each of the Troupple King's ichors. 18%
• Knuckle Down Hang in the air for more than 4 seconds using the Dust Knuckles. 17%
• Hooper Bounce on the Hoop Kid's hoop for 5 seconds. 15%
• Reflect Lord Hit enemies with a reflected projectile 30 times. 14%
• Arc of Iron Defeat 3 enemies with one Throwing Anchor. 13%
• You're Fired Finish off the Black Knight with a reflected shot. 12%
• Get the Point Destroy all checkpoints in a single stage. 11%
• On a Diet Finish a level without eating any food. 11%
• Decked Out Purchase or unlock all relics, equipment, and upgrades. 11%
• Sparker Finish off any boss using the Ground Spark technique. 10%
• Boom! Defeat 5 foes at once using the Booming Horn. 8.1%
• Pungent Listen to all of Croaker's puns. (Shovel Knight) 8.0%
• Relic Roundtable Defeat an enemy by using each relic. 7.3%
• Untouched Emerge unscathed from a battle with any Knight of the Order of No Quarter. 6.4%
• Shovel Economy Finish a level and swing the Shovel Blade fewer than 20 times. 5.2%
• No Damage! Finish any Stage without taking damage. 5.0%
• Super Sphere Destroy 5 enemies within 5 seconds using the Chaos Spheres. 4.7%
• Music Lover Obtain all song scrolls. 4.6%
• Flying Feat Defeat 3 enemies using the Propeller Dagger without touching the ground. 4.3%
• Reflected Riches Bounce the same Alchemical Coin 5 times in a row. 3.9%
• Flare Wander Defeat an enemy with the Flare Wand from more than 25 blocks away. 3.8%
• Order of Hoarders Have 50000 gold on hand. 3.4%
• Clearing a Path Run over 5 enemies using the same Mobile Gear. 3.1%
• Dirt Poor Don't collect any gold for an entire Order of No Quarter stage. 2.5%
• Again! Finish New Game Plus. 2.1%
• True Shovelry Beat the game without collecting any relics. 2.0%
• Penny Pincher Finish the game without spending any money. 1.8%
• Checkpointless Destroy every possible checkpoint in the game. 1.7%
• HurryUp! Beat the game within 1 hour and 30 minutes. 1.4%
• Impossible! Finish the game without dying. 1.4%
• Perfect Platformer Finish the game without falling into a bottomless pit. 1.4%