Shovel Knight: King Of Cards
Developer/publisher Yacht Club Games
Format 3DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch (tested), Vita, Wii U, Xbox One
Release Out now
This coming April, it will have been seven years since ’s Kickstarter campaign began – yet only now is it time for Yacht Club Games to bring it to an end. Surely not in the developer’s wildest dreams could it have conceived what its unpretentious retro platformer would become in that time. has grown into a full-blown franchise, with spin-offs, cross-game cameos and even its own Amiibo line. Dispassionately speaking, is the belated fulfilment of a stretch goal – Playable Boss Knight 3, as the campaign put it – and yet it arrives feeling like the closing
