Some of those include regular and iron blocks, potions, and enemies to name a few. The experience is set in an 8x8 grid, and you control Shovel Knight on the field in the four cardinal directions while other things start to fall. The game is more of an action/puzzle hybrid rather than what you'd typically expect for the genre.
With no other options available, Shovel Knight and his newfound companions make it their mission to travel throughout the puzzle box world and see if they can solve it in order to get back to the real world. Before he can react, the puzzle box sucks Shovel Knight into its own dimension, where the titular hero is rescued by a duo of heroes who also got stuck in the box. Curious, he opens it up to find a puzzle box. The story starts off with Shovel Knight taking a break from his adventuring when a present appears right in front of him. The main game and related DLC finally wrapped up, so Yacht Games has seen fit to put the character into a new game of their own with Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon, a game that is more spin-off than actual sequel. Another thing that has kept the character in people's minds is his constant appearance in other indie titles of varying genres, whether it's in a cameo or as a playable character. The DLC explored other characters in the universe and fulfilled Kickstarter stretch goals. The original Shovel Knight came out in 2014, but it has been kept in the public eye for so long with a plethora of DLC campaigns.