When I first picked up shovel knight near when it was released in 2014 i didn’t think much of it. It had beautiful sprite work, the music was perfect, and it harkened back to many of my favorite 8bit games (duck tales, castlevania, mario). But I must have been crazy, I came back to it a few years later and binged through not just shovel knight but each expansion and with each one my opinion of the games and Yacht Club grew.

This is really a phenomenal package that shows off incredible design chops. There is so much gaming value packed into these games and the way every expansion recontextualizes the levels and characters is incredible.