# Shovel Knight Dig — user reviews > 188 indexed App Store user reviews of Shovel Knight Dig by YACHT CLUB GAMES, LLC, rated 4.73/5 from 6,997 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shovel-knight-dig/id1538097794/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shovel-knight-dig/id1538097794.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,939 · 4★ 625 · 3★ 185 · 2★ 87 · 1★ 161 ## What do users think of Shovel Knight Dig? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful 8-bit graphics - 🎶 Excellent retro soundtrack - 👍 Addictive and challenging gameplay - 🎮 Great for Shovel Knight fans **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and save data loss - 🎮 Clunky touch controls, need customization - 💰 Frustrating difficulty, not much progression - 🕰️ Lack of checkpoints, have to restart on death **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes and save data loss - Inability to move right with controllers - Stuck in tutorial room glitch - Persistent dialogue text box bug **Most requested features** - Add checkpoints or ability to resume runs - Improve touch controls and allow customization - Implement better progression and power-ups - Add more accessibility options ## Newest reviews (16 of 188) ### 4/5 — Shovel go brrrr *2025-07-10, version 2.0.2* Shovel go brrrr ### 4/5 — This game good *2025-07-09, version 2.0.2* I really thought Yacht games would fail this but NO it is pretty good. I’m a big Shovel knight fan and since this game is pretty good I will just say a few things and not a lot 1 it feels really repetitive and sometimes gets boring. 2 The “find the armor” quests aren’t so great 3 WHAT IS TINKER KNIGHT DOING HERE ### 4/5 — Hoop is hard *2025-06-04, version 2.0.2* The silly hoop thing at the beginning is…well silly and very hard for no reason ### 5/5 — Good *2025-03-11, version 1.1.4* Good ### 4/5 — It is cool *2025-02-26, version 1.1.4* The thing I don’t like is that it is very hard to win. You should make some hard mode easy mode normal mode. That would be better ### 5/5 — Exceptional ✨(with a controller, that is.) *2025-01-20, version 1.1.4* This won’t be a long paragraph. This game is probably on my top 5 mobile games of ALL TIME. IF you have a controller hooked up. I won’t lie. The touch screen controls are a bit terrible. The buttons are too small however you set them and it’s a pain to play. But whenever I have it hooked to my Neo S Controller, it’s pure joy and bliss from this game. Even if I put it down for months and come back, I never get tired of it. If you have a controller to play with, this will for sure satisfy you. ### 4/5 — A must have for 80s kids *2024-12-29, version 1.1.4* Anyone who loved dig dug or tough arcade games will get a fun time playing shovel knight but it is better to play with a controller. But over all a great game who liked snes games or the tough to beat arcade classics ### 5/5 — Wow amazing *2024-11-16, version 1.1.4* This is a GREAT game with its funny characters and challenging levels if it was 10/10 super good. Also it’s graphic is beautiful. ### 5/5 — Super fun *2024-11-10, version 1.1.4* Great game. There’s one small bug. When I use the streamline mail, I can’t read the description of the tools when I reach a new stage. Can you guys fix it? ### 2/5 — F.U.N *2024-11-08, version 1.1.4* Fun. Unfortunately too hard-mole knight. Make easier to beat. Or I will delete the game if you don’t do that! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2024-09-08, version 1.1.4* So addicting ### 5/5 — Incredible game *2024-09-07, version 1.1.4* Would recommend is very fun ### 5/5 — Happy Game *2024-09-03, version 1.1.4* This is a fun game that I am enjoying, even though I’m bad at it! (And usually I don’t like games I’m bad at) I just bought a fire ring or something like that to protect me from fire 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀 Almost better than Minecraft ### 5/5 — AMAZINGLY FUN APP *2024-08-24, version 1.1.4* ITS MY NO.1 FAVE APP I JUST CANT STOP PLAYING IT 1 small problem whene u defeat the bosses u don’t get ANY GEMS I just think you should get at least 1000 ### 5/5 — Shovel knight *2024-08-24, version 1.1.4* It’s shovel knight. You literally can’t go wrong. ### 5/5 — Challenging and fun *2024-08-07, version 1.1.4* Sometimes it feels unfair with the way i lose but this game has cool details and my favorite art style in a shovel knight game. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bad *2025-04-03, version 1.1.4* Genuinely just a bad game ### 1/5 — love *2025-02-13, version 1.1.4* I love oekdndidjdd ### 1/5 — Gyat *2024-09-23, version 1.1.4* Skibidi ### 1/5 — Worst game ever to hard *2024-09-22, version 1.1.4* The game is way to hard so it’s bad worst game ### 1/5 — controls are rough *2023-12-10, version 1.1.4* This looks like such a fun game to play, but the controls (both the swipe and buttons, I tried both) are a mess and I couldn’t get very far at all. It’s a shame because the graphics are fun and the sound is good and you can tell there’s a decent and absorbing game world there. Sometimes you can’t seem to jump if you’re moving sideways. Other times they just don’t seem to respond well. I’d love to up this review, I think I’d suggest as a minimum being able to reconfigure the default button positions so you can match where your fingers naturally fall, secondly something feels off about the way that the jump button responds ### 1/5 — It gets worse with each and every update *2023-11-18, version 1.1.4* There are so many aspects of the game that are so poorly designed that the game is almost unplayable. It has some of the worse level design and it fails to encapsulate any of shovel knight’s charm ### 1/5 — Broken *2023-08-01, version 1.1.4* Not able to download waited 3 hours for it ### 1/5 — My thoughts *2022-12-13, version 1.1.3* First of all I like Shovel Knight Dig very much, so I strongly request that these two games be excluded from the Apple Arcade subscription service and changed to ordinary free games. ### 1/5 — Super fun BUT… *2022-10-23, version 1.1.0* I REALLY want to love this game, the graphics are great, the gameplay and story are fun and challenging, so much going for it. Why I gave it a 1 star is because they released a game that’s not finished. What I mean by that is that the game corrupts saved game files and deletes them. It was frustrating the first time, even after I unlocked EVERYTHING and the only thing left was the “real” ending. However the second time it did it I was done. Another glitch that is frustrating is that when I finally got everything for the “real” ending, I jumped down the hole to fight the final boss and instead of fighting, my character just fell down a hole for more than 5 minutes before I finally closed the game out. I may change my rating in the future if the game gets fixed, until then it remains 1 star… ### 1/5 — Game Froze and Profile Reset. Lost All Progress *2022-10-22, version 1.1.0* After playing for a month, and working towards all the achievements, unlocking the armors, tickets, upgrades, etc the game froze. I had to force quit and when I relaunched all my progress had been lost and the game showed that my stored profile had 0 progress. All my progress is still visible in Game Center achievements but there seems to be no way to get back everything. Super disappointed. Also, maybe it’s an update or something but playing a second time and now I’ve encountered a number of rooms that are traps, as in there is no way to jump out of them. Overall whatever happened with the game today broke a lot of things. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I really dig it *2025-07-12, version 2.0.2* If anyone has played the treasure trove of shovel knight get ready to play shovel knight dig you will explore the caverns and find hidden treasures but try your best to keep your health full because dangers lurk around every corner and if your not satisfied with just a speed run there is a secret story that isn’t to hard to find I really dig it. ### 5/5 — Very fun *2025-06-26, version 2.0.2* Shovel Knight dig is a fun game that requires you to be really good at attacking and timing for some bosses. Like Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight Dig brings new lore, new areas, new bosses into the mix! And with multiple endings, my favourite is the True Ending, but also brings back the Enchantress! Amazing game! ### 5/5 — Grr *2025-06-01, version 2.0.2* Too hard :( ### 5/5 — AMAZING GAME I PLAY IT ALMOST EVERY DAY *2025-05-30, version 2.0.2* I’ve always wanted to try shovel knight and I got Apple Arcade and I heard Dig was the first one story wise, so I decided to give it a shot. Before I knew it I was having a good time, digging through the stages and trying to get all the armor sets, (hating tinker knight) and enjoying the game overall. Wanna play shovel knight? Start with this game. ### 5/5 — Tough but Fun. *2025-05-26, version 2.0.2* I’ll admit when I first started playing this game I was frustrated. But the more I played the more I came to love and I am so happy that this update has come out for it. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-05-18, version 2.0.1* This is an amazing game. However, slight issue: it always crashes on my iPad, and the controls are a bit janky on the computer ### 5/5 — classic 16bit pixel perfection *2025-04-18, version 1.1.4* really gives me snes memories, with difficulty to match! swipe controls work well, but i’d recommend a basic controller if you have one ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2025-04-06, version 1.1.4* So… this game is astronomically fun. The controls are a bit hard to get used to at first, but once you do, it’s great. A bit tough at first, but, again, it takes time to master a skill ### 5/5 — THE BEST *2025-04-04, version 1.1.4* This game is the Best! So addictive! I can’t stop playing it! Can’t say this enough:THE BEST! ### 5/5 — Gastronomole! *2025-03-29, version 1.1.4* Great game! Love playing this! I have a dark thought for an update - what if when you have an egg & are looking for a nest but instead find Gastronomole’s Kitchen…he offers you something like extra life in exchange?? 🫣 or even if you have a pet, then the player has to choose what is more valuable to keep?!? --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*