Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon is a roguelike puzzle game co-developed by Vine and Yacht Club Games and published by Yacht Club Games. A spin-off of the platform game Shovel Knight the player takes control of the namesake adventurer as he becomes trapped within a magical artifact the Pocket Dungeon and is forced to fight his way out while battling other knights who befell the same fate. Gameplay is set on an 8x8 grid on which the player can move in one of four directions. Enemies appear at the top of the grid and the player attacks them by moving into the spaces they occupy. The contents of the grid move down the screen every time the player moves or attacks and a game over occurs if the player loses all of their health or if the grid becomes completely filled. As the players defeat the game's bosses they unlock new playable characters with their own special abilities.