
A mysterious letter calls you back to your abandoned family mansion. Explore its dark rooms, uncover the bloody rituals buried in your family’s past, and escape the presence lurking in the shadows. Shadow Mansion is a story-driven horror game of atmosphere, exploration, and survival.
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Shadow Mansion is a narrative-driven, first-person horror and investigation game that prioritizes psychological dread and active deduction over simple jump scares. You don’t merely survive the mansion you must uncover the dark truth it has buried for decades.
Your journey begins with a mysterious letter that summons you to an abandoned family estate. To make it out alive, you must take on the role of a supernatural investigator, following a trail of fragmented clues to piece together a tragic family secret that was never meant to be revealed.
🔍 Deep Environmental Investigation
Search every corner of the mansion to uncover hidden notes, listen to long-forgotten tapes, and examine subtle environmental clues. Progress depends not on collecting items alone, but on understanding what they truly mean.
🧩 Deductive Puzzle Solving
Progression is locked behind layered mysteries. You must gather scattered information fuses, ritual artifacts, cryptic keys and connect the dots to access the mansion’s most forbidden areas.
📓 A True Detective Mindset
Track your discoveries and reconstruct the dark pacts made by your family. You are not a passive observer you are the central investigator of a complex, multi-layered case.
🗝️ Stealth & Observation-Based Survival
You are not alone. A demonic presence and its followers stalk the mansion. Survival depends on careful observation, pattern recognition, and understanding the hidden logic behind the hauntings.
🕯️ Relentless Atmospheric Tension
Navigate pitch-dark corridors, restore failing systems, and manage your limited tools. Every flickering light carries meaning, and every silence may be a warning.
❓ Is this a true detective experience?
Yes. While Shadow Mansion is rooted in horror, its core gameplay loop revolves around investigation, deduction, and discovery. To reach the ending, you must actively solve the case of your family’s past.
❓ How long is the investigation?
A focused playthrough lasts approximately 2–3 hours. However, players who seek every hidden secret, optional puzzle, and piece of lore will uncover a significantly deeper experience.
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish - Latin America, Russian +15 more
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
Malo straszny horrorek bardziej symulator chodzenia.Zgadki bardzo latwe i malo ich w tej grze.Dla wielbicieli gatunku moze byc.
Um enredo bem construído, mas com uma jogabilidade um tanto travada. Mesmo tendo todos os requisitos para rodar o jogo, ele ainda dá umas enroscadas. Talvez não seja tão bem otimizado para todas as máquinas. Colocando esse ponto de lado, é um jogo que sabe expressar muito bem o terror e te imergir de uma forma fenomenal.
This game has alot of potential! I loved the story as far as I was able to play it but unfortunately I had to stop playing due to the motion sickness and head bobbing. If there was a way to lower to motion sickness or head bobbing I would be able to play it. If you like jumpscares and horror stories youll love these games.
I received this key from LurkIt and played it on stream. While I got the game for free, I can't recommend it at full price for what it is currently. Edited to add, the dev team seems to be very active and responsive, and I love that. You guys did a good job for your first attempt! Pros + Storyline is simple and straight forward - you got a mansion! Go check it out. Weird things unfold. + Atmosphere is overall pretty good! A whistle in the woods was hands down the creepiest part of the game to me. It reminded me of Appalachian legends about strange whistles and voices in the woods. I was really hoping for more of that eeriness. + Puzzles were good - I got stuck at one but that was my fault because I'm pretty mediocre at puzzles 😅 Wish there were more! + Sound design - I know this is a subheading to the atmosphere but I really want to point out the ambient noises keeping me on my toes. Not knowing what was important and what was just background made for some really good tension. + Spoiler, but [spoiler]cute pig. Don't know why he was there, but he was cute. 10/10 pig[/spoiler]. Cons -I know that other reviews prior to December 2025's update mentioned poor optimization, and I think that is still the case. Of course, there's room for error on my end, but it ate up my graphics card enough that the game crashed when someone redeemed a CAPTCHA puzzle through Crowd Control. I made some graphics changes once I got the game booted up again and it was able to run without further issues. In fact, when I was in a certain area of the map, I got yellow text across my screen saying something about shadows not loading? I can't be certain what it said specifically because I'm not a developer and it didn't make sense to me as a layperson. -The jump scares were unbalanced and weird. For a game that says "we won't use cheap jump scares to get you", I felt like that they did. BIG NOISE SCREENFLASH AHHH. There were 9 times I jumped, and only two of them did I think were well done [spoiler](a particular door opening after it was shown to be shut, and a flashlight scare)[/spoiler]. In my opinion, some of them were pretty nonsensical and left me confused. -I felt like I was promised more than what I got both in gameplay and story. One instance is that when you check out the keybinds, you have way more keybinds for tools that you don't need. I thought there was going to be more in-depth puzzling/investigating, but all you get/need [spoiler]is a flashlight - that's it. No need for a spot for a lighter, or a UV light, or a gun, but they're all there in the settings! I felt like I was overlooking things because I couldn't find or use them. Same with having a health bar, don't need it because only one thing that I found could kill me, and it's an insta death via jumpscare.[/spoiler] I don't mind that so much because of the respawn, but it was an odd mechanic to have. A second one that was confusing was [spoiler]fuses and light management. We were told to look for fuses and then, nope, never needed to. I kept an eye out for them but never found any so I assume that was just a plot device to get us into the basement[/spoiler]. They set up (in my mind) some cool and creepy elements that in the end, weren't actually part of the story. It was just set dressing that LOOKED like it was important [spoiler]like the wheelchair that said Edie, the nun doll and painting, the wonderfully creepy whistle to name a few off the top of my head[/spoiler]. TL;DR This feels like a solid demo from some people familiar with the horror narrative/investigative genre, but you can tell that they're cutting their teeth. If you don't mind that, then by all means, enjoy! Honestly, the game left me wanting MORE, in terms of the story and the gameplay.
Got this game through Lurkit and I gotta admit it's a kinda raw but has a good foundation PROS - Well timed Jumpscares: The jumpscares were on point, delivered every time - Ambiance: The Mansion is properly creepy, althought the flashlight lighting plays against it CONS - The Writing: The plot is pretty simple, while I was interested due to curiosity I think it needed some polish, specially the dialogue - The Voice Acting: A generic dialogue could be saved by a good voice acting, but this isn't the case. We actually had a bet while streaming on whether it was AI or not - Asset Reliance: It is a short game but at the end, around the part you go the library to retrieve the code, it's pretty noticeable that the game relies on store assets (the ritual room's door is a subway door, seriously?) - Performance: It wasn't terrible, game played smoothly on stream but I couldn't get over the fact this game seemed to fully utilize my CPU and GPU (I blame Unreal for this) VEREDICT: - The game has great ideas, but kinda lacks polish. It's not Great but not Terrible either - Then again it's an Indie Game and it's pretty cheap - Recommended if you're into indie horror games
Modifico la recensione dopo averlo rigiocato a seguito di aggiornamenti. Mi era piaciuto prima, ed è stato migliorato parecchio, stavolta nessun problema e son riuscito a finirlo. L'unica cosa che posso segnalare è che mi sono incastrato nelle scale (quelle con 3 o 4 gradini, dove ci sono molte botti) arrivandoci di corsa, però muovendomi e saltando son riuscito a liberarmi. Bel titolo, lo consigliavo prima e lo consiglio ora
SHADOW MANSION ist ein typisches Indie Horrorgame mit Problemen, die leider nicht behoben werden. Es ruckelt, die Bewegungen des Charakters sind eigenartig, man hängt in Treppen fest und muss neustarten, Dann kann man im Menü keine Einstellung anwenden, weil der Button mit dem fürs Feedback zusammenhängt. Die Jumpscares schallern dir die Ohren weg und alles ist irgendwie ein Kampf. ABER: Selbst mit den aufgezählten Dingen wollte ich es gern zu Ende spielen, doch ein lang bekannter Game-breaking Bug hält mich davon ab und das ist echt traurig. Das Spiel kam im Sommer 2024 raus und im Communityhub ignorieren die Entwickler die Beiträge der Spieler, in denen alles aufgezählt wird. Hier in den Rezensionen scheint es die Devs auch nicht zu interessieren, was ich wirklich schade find. Immerhin verkaufen sie ihr Game noch, aber arbeiten einfach nicht mehr daran. Dafür kamen dieses Jahr 3 weitere Spiele von ihnen raus. Leute, kümmert euch doch erstmal darum, dass eure releasten Games laufen!
i REALLY wanted to love this game. The voice acting? so bad its good. The sound effects? I can find them online in a .2 second google search. again, so bad it's good. Graphics? Mid tbh. PLAY-ABILITY: none. It EATS your cpu/gpu. You WILL lagg/stutter if you run ANYWHERE. AND I got to a door in the cellar that was just an invisible wall so I couldnt continue, even after going back to prior entry of the cellar. I could look past the bad optimization, I couldnt look past the BEING STUCK LESS THAN AN HOUR INTO THE GAME. ;;w;; I wanted to love it.
very fun I have gotten scared a couple of times. yes it need a bit of Polish but overall a fun experiences 7/10 can recommend
O jogo é bem interessante, muiito bem ambientado, a gameplay é simples e da bastante medo, o jogo é imersivo, a historia é interessante, o unico problema é que eu não consegui zerar por conta de bugs, bugs de interação bem na parte final do jogo na hora de fazer o ritual, fiquei frustrado pois estava em live criando conteudo mas não consegui finalizar pro meu publico, talvez se arrumarem o bug eu consigo zerar o jogo pra contar 100%
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