Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer and a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic PAC-MAN. As The Swordsman, you wake on a mysterious planet amidst relics of wars past. To survive you will discover secrets, consume your enemies, and grow from prey to apex predator.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Sep 3 → 0/day in the week after.
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Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $14.99−50% | 345reviews | 56% | — | $242.2K |
| $39.99 | 387ratings | 68% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
Themes across 52 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
i love this game the atmosphere and the movement is so good im not sure why everyone hates this i love pacman and i understand this is an odd turn in aesthetics but i personally enjoy it its not like theyll get rid of the traditional pacman aesthetic
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No for $30, under no circumstances, this isn't polished or well designed enough for that. $15 at max. TL;DR it's fine enough but the random rough edges are jagged. Mixed review seems to be from that many things were fixed post launch, and mostly the only thing that's awful is pacman stuff near the end of the game. This isn't a top tier metroidvania, it's barely competent, but it's also, sadly for the ranks of the genre, kind of fine within that. Tons of things are poorly designed, and the nonlinearity has very little in the ways of gating or guiding so, to the appreciation of speed runners, you can skip most of the game, but it's also skipping the abilities that unlock a bunch of optional things. I was at the last boss at about like 30% map completion without intending to. The map and fast travel system are so convolutedly put together that there's two fast travel points that share a logical node, so if you're at one you cannot travel to another, and there's another that is literally unusable unless you use a fast-travel item, because it doesn't show up on the fast travel list and it's on a secondary map screen so you cannot nav into it. But all that said the pac man stuff is really what drags the game down. It's cute when they try to make like greater universal lore and mix n pacman, but the times you have to play as pacman are easily the worst and the game would be better if they were completed removed in every single case. I saw someone suggest the game is "dark souls hard" and anyone you see saying something like that, ignore, it is closer to mindless than hard.
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean
| $29.99 |
| 75ratings |
| 82% |
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| $29.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 52 reviews with recorded playtime.
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fun game
Sehr enttäusch vom ganzen Spiel
Uzun süredir uzun soluklu bir metroidvania oyun oynamamıştım. Bu oyunada biraz çekimser yaklaşıyordum, biraz oynadıktan sonra içine çekmeyi başardı. Güzel yapım.
When I heard that there is going to be a Metroidvania Pac-Man my immediate response was, "Well, this is going to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!" But, after playing the game on console and beating it and now returning to PC to claim another victory all I can say about it now is nothing but praises! ♥♥♥♥ what the haters have to say about this game because they are WRONG! These haters were complaining that the game was TOO hard what a joke! It is a Metroidvania it isn't suppose to be an easy walk in the park... duh dumbasses! The game set out to make a Metroidvania Pac-Man, a grittier dark version of a character we all love and they nailed it! Every aspect of the game from crafting, to combat, to finding secrets and even the platforming are all spot on! Whatever you do not come to this game expecting you to knock it out over in a quick weekend session because this game has a lot to offer and even more! Shadow Labyrinth has defied my expectations and has given me a BIG game to explore! Some might even say that it is Pac'd to the brim with content lol. This game takes roughly 40-60 hours of game play to complete. The sheer amount of content crammed into this game is a delight! The game mixes soo many genres together that it's crazy to even think about. Do you like Hack-N-Slash combat? They got it! Do you like crafting? It's here! Did you like Celeste and the platforming in that game... it's here! Did you enjoy playing Metroid with all it's labyrinths? This game has got it and more! Do like like Castlevania type content it's here! Do you enjoy playing Pac-Man (well I hope soo) because it is here as well. And they all mesh together very brilliantly into ONE AWESOME PACKAGE! I highly recommend playing this game if you want to see a darker side to Pac-Man and get a weird story out of it then I give this game an 8 out of 10! Go play it now! Stop reading this post and go play the game and IGNORE the haters!
Very interesting gameplay and a super interesting idea to take Pac-Man and expand it into a more modern genre, with Metroidvania being a perfect fit for one of the earliest and most popular maze games. I think the art direction really left something to be desired. It looks really rough and amateurish in a lot of places which really suprised me, because in other places, it looked really great! I guess it's subjective, but I can't help but feel that a stronger and more cohesive art direction could've really kept me playing and excited to see more of the world.
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