Games like Shovel Knight Dig
If Shovel Knight Dig is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ravva and the Cyclops Curse, Gravity Oddity and Pizzapocalypse 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hidden secrets reward exploration, challenging and retro. 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 Dig: 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!
Players who liked Shovel Knight Dig also play
Steam players who put hours into Shovel Knight Dig 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.
Ravva and the Cyclops Curse
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shovel Knight Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Unleash your summoning powers to defeat the Cyclops Lord! Along with four unusual companions, you must journey through a dangerous land to save your mother from a terrible curse. A challenging adventure awaits!
Gravity Oddity
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shovel Knight Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Embark on a one-man rescue mission across the galaxy to bring back your kidnapped roommate in this roguelike space action-adventure.
Pizzapocalypse 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shovel Knight Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Use your pizza to bounce, swing and dash in this 3D platformer! Explore different countries, and put a stop to the greedy corporation selling Pizza-in-a-can!
Whirlwind Magician
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shovel Knight Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shovel Knight Dig.
Experience the tale of a cheerful girl and a grouchy talking hat in this charming Metroidvania, where every ability is hat-based! Throw the hat to attack enemies, teleport to him to make perilous leaps, and fly him through narrow tunnels of spikes as you escape a dangerous magic forest.
Gwen The Hen 64
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shovel Knight Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
Original Journey
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Shovel Knight Dig.
Ranked #6 for Shovel Knight Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Original Journey is a 2D hand drawn, sci-fi action-adventure with a bold hand drawn art style. Join the Ato as they embark on a mission to save their home world. Only a mysterious power source discovered on a distant planet can save them but how far will the Ato go save themselves?
Thrilling Triple Treat
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shovel Knight Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
What do you get if you mix a platformer with a metroidvania and tower defense but then seperate that mix into three games that are then collected into a single game? Nonsense. You get nonsense. This game is nonsense. But dear, is it funny!
TEMPLE of RUBBO
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Shovel Knight Dig.
Ranked #8 for Shovel Knight Dig fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
A fast-paced co-op dungeon crawler for up to four players! 🏛️ Fight enemies and collect loot through 16 floors of caves, sewers, dungeons and hell to rescue an ancient wizard and regain your humanity.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Shovel Knight Dig
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Downwell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight Dig.
Reviewers of Shovel Knight Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight Dig.
Reviewers of Shovel Knight Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Delve with Shovel Knight into the depths of the Pocket Dungeon in an action-packed puzzle adventure mashup like none other!
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Shovel Knight Dig.
Reviewers of Shovel Knight Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Risk of Rain Returns
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Shovel Knight Dig.
Reviewers of Shovel Knight Dig cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Shovel Knight Dig.
Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shovel Knight Dig at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Shovel Knight Dig on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shovel Knight Dig on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shovel Knight Dig on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shovel Knight Dig.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Shovel Knight Dig on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shovel Knight Dig.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shovel Knight Dig on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shovel Knight Dig on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shovel Knight Dig.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Dig.
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 Dig.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Dig.
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 Dig.
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 Dig.
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.
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Bomb Chicken
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shovel Knight Dig.
Another title from Nitrome, the studio behind Shovel Knight Dig. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range hero. Explore the versatile mechanic of laying bombs in this explosive exploration platformer.
Tower Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Shovel Knight Dig.
Another title from Nitrome, the studio behind Shovel Knight Dig. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
A mysterious tower has risen! It emits plumes of noxious green smoke from its summit making people sick. Strange creatures infest the tower but if nobody tries to ascend it we will all be doomed! Are you that hero?.....
Gunbrick: Reloaded
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Shovel Knight Dig.
Another title from Nitrome, the studio behind Shovel Knight Dig. Shares Action and Indie with Shovel Knight Dig.
In a future where cars are obsolete, the Gunbrick has become a worldwide sensation! Encounter wasteland mutants, crazed nerds, law enforcement and all manner of cube based adversaries in this action packed puzzle platformer.
Frequently asked about Shovel Knight Dig
- Is Shovel Knight Dig verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Shovel Knight Dig is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Shovel Knight Dig cost?
- Shovel Knight Dig is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shovel Knight Dig?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shovel Knight Dig are Ravva and the Cyclops Curse, Gravity Oddity, Pizzapocalypse 2.
- Who developed Shovel Knight Dig?
- Shovel Knight Dig was developed by Nitrome, Yacht Club Games and published by Yacht Club Games.
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