At this year's PAX East, Yacht Club Games said it was "absolutely" considering a direct sequel to Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove.
Now, in a Reddit AMA on the Nintendo subreddit, the talented indie developer and publisher has added to this previous comment – explaining how it's definitely up for a sequel, but likely won't be making one any time soon. Here's the full response from Yacht Club's programmer David D'Angelo:
We'd definitely be interested in making one some day...but right now we're moving onto new things. If we made a sequel, I imagine it'd be a similar scale to Shovel of Hope.
Another member of the team reiterated this, saying how "after 6 years of Shovel Knight" it was time to start working on some new games.
During the recent Yacht Club presentation, the director of Shovel Knight Sean Velasco said the team had begun internal development on two new projects – and teased a brand new IP that was sure to interest fans of Shovel Knight.
Would you like to see a follow-up to Shovel Knight at some stage? Are you excited about Shovel Knight Dig and Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon? Leave a comment below.
[source reddit.com]
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Too bad a direct sequel is the only thing shovel knight I'm interested in. I generally don't do spin offs with any game series.
Does anyone think the next I.P. they release is going to have a million cameos in other indie games?
If it ends up being as great as Shovel Knight, I would be fine with it.
I am excited about Cyber shadow so there's that. Ninja's and videogames almost always = Awesome!
I thought Shovel Knight DIG will be the (16-bit) sequel!? 🤔
I would love me some Shovel Knight 64! 🥰
That's funny because Ninja Gaiden 3 on Nes is by far the least liked Ninja Gaiden. Frankly I'm bored with all the open world ultra realistic playable movie games. At least the retro Pixel stuff had style.
@MaxlRoseGNR nah, Dig is a spin-off and isn’t even being handled by them.
@Wavey84 Yeah totally there with ya, it was fun for a while but the market has been flooded with too many cheap imitators and most of the good games feel like the same sort of thing over and over again after a while. Now I just have far more interest in playing the classics.
After just having done DLC support for the game for about six years, I imagine they would want to move onto other stuff.
I’m always excited for more Shovel Knight, but I’m eager to see what else this team is capable of.
@ShadJV Ahhh!! Like a Steam World Dig / Shovel Knight crossover. Thanks for the update.
Then again:
Shovel Knight 64 please!
I love Shovel Knight, but I'm sick of it at the same time. I want to see what else YCG is capable of without relying on the Blue Burrower.
Last word I have stuck in my memory is someone from Yacht Club Games saying they'd be happy to make shovel knight games forever or something to that effect. Oh, here it is: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/02/yacht_club_happy_to_continue_making_shovel_knight_games_forever_and_ever
I took that to mean they might not work on anything else, but it seems I misunderstood — and that makes me happy! I feel like there's a better opportunity to make another great game if they don't tie it directly to Shovel Knight.
@Wavey84 Yeah my appreciation for "pixel art" graphics has really gone away. I still think some of the genuine classics are impressive looking for their time, but these indie games seems to for the most part have the same sort of graphics after a while and it's not like it was back in the 16-bit era when that was a legitimate limitation. It is probably the only form of entertainment where people go out of their way to produce something in a primitive style while claiming it's superior somehow. Anyways now a days I am just on the look out for games that actually push what the Switch is capable of, I learned over the past couple years how that is the type of game I want to play most of the time anyways. When I was growing up I didn't dream of having a handheld that would play games with the same sort of graphics as my Genesis, in fact we had something like that way back then called the Sega Nomad. I always dreamed of having a handheld that could handle 3D graphics like the Switch.
Wasn't this news a week ago too?
@Wavey84
Munch on some grindage!
Totally fair. A true sequel with 16 bit style graphics would be cool, but whenever you are ready.
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