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A 2.5D stealth game where you play an assassin outwitting guards with a grappling rope, physics and shadows, while a little girl watches your choices between killing and sparing. Each encounter is a stealth puzzle, since being spotted usually means instant death.
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The closest matches for Shadwen are Haunting Ground, Mark of the Ninja and Children of the Sun. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Shadwen special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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A brilliant 2D stealth platformer that visualizes sight, sound and light so clearly that every infiltration becomes a precise puzzle of timing and planning. Klei's hand-drawn art and multiple approaches, lethal or pacifist, make it a genre classic.
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A time-loop thriller set in a single cramped apartment, where you relive the same twelve minutes and use what you learn each loop to unravel a dark secret surrounding your wife. A top-down point-and-click mystery with a star-studded voice cast.
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You play a mute assistant to a charming con man in 18th-century France, cheating nobles with card tricks, marked decks and secret signals. Each deception is a tactile, timing-based minigame, wrapped in a stylish story of intrigue.
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80 %
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Vincent is torn between his girlfriend and a seductive affair, and by night must climb deadly block towers in nightmares. By day he drinks at the bar and makes choices that steer the story, mixing relationship drama with brutally tough block-pushing puzzles.
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You play a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris during the French Revolution, weighing evidence, balancing factions and trying to avoid the guillotine yourself. Interrogations, clues and morally heavy verdicts drive a tense, comic-styled courtroom drama.
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As a state-appointed apartment manager in a totalitarian regime, you spy on tenants and make morally heavy decisions. Time, money and conscience are all scarce, and your choices lead to many different endings.
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As the reluctant hero Abe, you lead a Mudokon uprising through a dark yet quirky platformer of sneaking, puzzling and rescuing. Its blend of stealth, mass rescues and black humor sets it apart.
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As a border inspector in the fictional Eastern Bloc state of Arstotzka, you scrutinize paperwork under time pressure while balancing duty, your family's survival, and the fates of desperate travelers. A bleak, morally gripping game with many endings.
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