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Shovel Knight

Gaming — A fun take on classic platforming tropes
GamingPartly defensible · network effects (moderate)saasest. 2014
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 45.6 · 2/4
45.6
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
+32.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+32.0).

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 88% of 17 probesavg response 3694 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
yachtclubgames.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
#308,104
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Shovel Knight's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 45.6 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Jupiter Hellgamingsimilar100%30.4+22.4● live
Alien:Isolationgamingsimilar100%18.90.0→ redirected
The Solus Projectgamingsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Potatoman Seeks the Troofgamingsimilar100%40.0+4.8● live
Star Wars: Battlefrontgamingsimilar100%50.00.0● live
The Witnessgamingsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Hyper Light Driftergamingsimilar100%17.20.0→ redirected
Mushroom 11gamingsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:36Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare1222alive
2026-08-19 14:31Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare1864alive
2026-08-11 01:04Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare2620alive
2026-08-08 07:01Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare4424alive
2026-08-05 19:17Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare3476alive
2026-07-30 18:32Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare3634alive
2026-07-26 15:14Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare2483alive
2026-07-18 09:08Z10014timeout
2026-07-11 09:22Z10004timeout
2026-07-04 13:16Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare2718alive
2026-06-23 14:26Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare1935alive
2026-06-21 17:30Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare2073alive
2026-06-21 17:30Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare1939alive
2026-06-20 06:53Z200yachtclubgames.comcloudflare3311alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Shovel Knight · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/shovel-knight · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.