Can I Run Shovel Knight?
Shovel Knight is an action adventure game from Yacht Club Games, released in 2014. Yacht Club Games both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS and Linux. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped. Completionists have 138 achievements to work through. Its Metacritic score stands at 85. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. Over 14 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Steam lists support for 11 languages. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 ghz or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 or later |
| DirectX | 9 |
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Setting and environment
Shovel Knight places its action in a deliberately retro presentation, and the player works through platforming routes. It is played in two dimensions. 19 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Shovel Knight is demanding
The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 9. System memory expectations are modest at 2 GB. Disk footprint is light, near 1 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Shovel Knight?
Shovel Knight targets a mainstream modern PC: 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Can my PC run Shovel Knight?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Shovel Knight?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 ghz or equivalent; GPU: 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 512MB; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 or later.
How much storage does Shovel Knight need?
Shovel Knight needs about 1 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Shovel Knight?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Shovel Knight is the CPU.