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Nightshade cover art

Nightshade

Beam Software · Piko Interactive LLC · 2019-03-07

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 31, 1992 (Nintendo Entertainment System), Mar 07, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The shadows of doom grow long as the ancient Egyptian villain Sutekh envelops Metro City with a wave of crime. But Sutekh's seedy underworld is about to be infiltrated by a superhero unlike the world has even seen. A superhero who can melt into the darkness like a phantom.

Nightshade is an $8.99 Action and Adventure game released in 2019, with an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000 and a Positive review sentiment (100% of 24 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-28

100%
positive of 24 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
63/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
$8.99
steam price (US)
Nightshade, entitled Nightshade Part 1: The Claws of Sutekh onscreen, is a 1992 action-adventure game developed by Beam Software and published by Ultra Games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was meant to be the first part in a series, but no sequels were ever made; however, it served as the basis for Beam Software's video game adaptation of Shadowrun.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 71% of 27,682 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$3.59-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $3.59 · on sale 0 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220192026Week of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.59$3.592026-09-282026-10-142026-09-28 — best price $3.592026-09-29 — best price $3.592026-09-30 — best price $3.592026-10-01 — best price $3.592026-10-02 — best price $3.592026-10-03 — best price $3.592026-10-04 — best price $3.592026-10-05 — best price $3.592026-10-06 — best price $3.592026-10-07 — best price $3.592026-10-08 — best price $3.592026-10-09 — best price $3.592026-10-10 — best price $3.592026-10-11 — best price $3.592026-10-12 — best price $3.592026-10-13 — best price $3.592026-10-14 — best price $3.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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