Games like Shovel Knight: King of Cards
If Shovel Knight: King of Cards is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope and Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its heirlooms add satisfying variety, challenging and comedic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Shovel Knight: King of Cards: Step into the gilded boots of King Knight in the biggest and most regal Shovel Knight game of them all! Leap, Shoulder Bash, gather new subjects, and strategize your way through this prequel in your quest to become King of Cards!
Players who liked Shovel Knight: King of Cards also play
Steam players who put hours into Shovel Knight: King of Cards also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Top pick for Shovel Knight: King of Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Take control of Specter Knight, servant to the Enchantress, in a quest to recruit a cadre of knights and create the Order of No Quarter. Experience perfect platforming, world-class visuals, impeccable stage design, incredible music, and even meet a friend or two in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment!
Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Second-strongest match for Shovel Knight: King of Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Third-strongest match for Shovel Knight: King of Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Ranked #4 for Shovel Knight: King of Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Ranked #5 for Shovel Knight: King of Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Ranked #6 for Shovel Knight: King of Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Ranked #8 for Shovel Knight: King of Cards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shovel Knight: King of Cards at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shovel Knight: King of Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shovel Knight: King of Cards on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Shovel Knight: King of Cards on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shovel Knight: King of Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shovel Knight: King of Cards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Shovel Knight: King of Cards on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Shovel Knight: King of Cards on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shovel Knight: King of Cards on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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More from Yacht Club Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Yacht Club Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Another title from Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight: King of Cards. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Another title from Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight: King of Cards. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
Shovel Knight Dig
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Another title from Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight: King of Cards. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
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!
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Another title from Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight: King of Cards. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Delve with Shovel Knight into the depths of the Pocket Dungeon in an action-packed puzzle adventure mashup like none other!
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Another title from Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight: King of Cards. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Take control of Specter Knight, servant to the Enchantress, in a quest to recruit a cadre of knights and create the Order of No Quarter. Experience perfect platforming, world-class visuals, impeccable stage design, incredible music, and even meet a friend or two in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment!
Mina the Hollower
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Another title from Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight: King of Cards. Shares Action and Adventure with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Take control of Mina, a renowned Hollower hurtled into a desperate mission to rescue a cursed island. Whip foes, burrow through the ground, and explore a pixel-perfect world in Mina the Hollower, a brand new game from the developers who brought you Shovel Knight!
Shovel Knight Showdown
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Another title from Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight: King of Cards. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Enter a world of never-ending battle! Duel with up to 4 local challengers and scramble after gems, or take control of your favorite characters, many playable for the first time ever, in Story Mode. Master every move, explore a vast array of items and locales, and discover new revelations.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight: King of Cards.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Frequently asked about Shovel Knight: King of Cards
- Does Shovel Knight: King of Cards run on Steam Deck?
- Shovel Knight: King of Cards is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Shovel Knight: King of Cards cost?
- Shovel Knight: King of Cards is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shovel Knight: King of Cards?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shovel Knight: King of Cards are Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove.
- Who developed Shovel Knight: King of Cards?
- Shovel Knight: King of Cards was developed by Yacht Club Games.
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