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2016 PCPlayStation 16.99 € 👍 77 % Mostly positive, 1,329 reviews on Steam

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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  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lavish presentation
  • Tactical depth
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
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The closest matches for Shadwen are Mark of the Ninja, Haunting Ground 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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Mark of the Ninja

85 %

2012 PCXbox 3.99 € 👍 97 % Overwhelmingly positive, 15,836 reviews on Steam

  • Lavish presentation
  • Tactical depth
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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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Haunting Ground

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Twelve Minutes

Linear, curated structure

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Card Shark

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

Catherine

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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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Oddworld: Soulstorm

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Monochroma

Puzzles and brain teasers

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Beholder

Tactical depth

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