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2021USK 6PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch82 % positive10.36 €

You bend your own shadow in inventive ways to crack twisted puzzles while uncovering the memories of a girl wrestling with her past. The game lives on its clever shadow mechanics and its reflective, melancholy mood.

  • Emotional impact
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes In My Shadow special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Hue

94 %Match

2016USK 0PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable92 % positive14.99 €

Brings what grabs you about In My Shadow: puzzles to figure out, emotional impact and vast, open spaces.

A minimalist puzzle platformer where you change the background colour of the world to make obstacles vanish and open new paths. The search for the protagonist's missing mother provides a quiet, simple story.

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Puzzles and brain teasers

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Arrog

Emotional impact

Arrog is an enigmatic puzzle adventure in a strange black-and-white world punctuated by splashes of color. You follow a man through his dreams as he comes to terms with his own death.

In Between

Emotional impact

An atmospheric puzzle platformer where you bend gravity and the environment while a terminally ill protagonist works through grief, anger and acceptance. The puzzles are tightly woven into its emotional story.

Macrotis: A Mother's Journey

Emotional impact

You guide Mother Bilby through a hidden underground realm in search of her children. The game blends atmospheric 2.5D platforming with clever puzzles and an emotional, heartfelt story.

Braid

Emotional impact

A landmark puzzle-platformer where every world bends time in a new, mind-twisting way, from rewinding to parallel realities. Beneath its painterly look lies a melancholic, ambiguous tale of regret and obsession.

Typoman

Puzzles and brain teasers

A dark 2D puzzle platformer where you form words from letters to reshape the environment and get past obstacles. Its surreal, stark visual style and word-based mechanic set it apart.

Papo & Yo

Emotional impact

A poetic puzzle platformer in which a boy navigates a dreamlike favela alongside a monster who stands in for his father's addiction. The puzzles and the personal, autobiographical story are tightly intertwined.

Klaus

Puzzles and brain teasers

You wake up as an office worker with no memory in a basement and must escape a mechanical, constructivist world. The game is built around clever puzzles and a distinctive, minimalist visual style.

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