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Shadow Puppeteer cover art

Shadow Puppeteer

Sarepta studio · Snow Cannon Games · 2014-09-29

Steam

AdventureIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jan 28, 2016 (Wii U), Sep 29, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Invite a friend to explore the strange, yet beautiful world of darkness and light in Shadow Puppeteer, an award-winning, local co-op adventure.

2
playing now
79%
positive of 228 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
66/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Shadow Puppeteer is an adventure puzzle-platform game developed by the Norwegian independent developer Sarepta Studio for Microsoft Windows and Wii U. The PC version has been released September 29, 2014. The Wii U version was released worldwide on January 28, 2016.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 53% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $1.68 at GamersGate (2021-10-29) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

402026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$16.99$0.002015-01-012025-08-012015-01-01 — best price $11.892015-11-25 — best price $6.792016-02-12 — best price $13.492016-03-18 — best price $10.492016-05-10 — best price $10.492016-07-04 — best price $14.992016-09-09 — best price $13.572016-10-27 — best price $7.492017-01-02 — best price $14.992017-02-13 — best price $3.742017-04-24 — best price $14.992017-07-05 — best price $14.992017-11-28 — best price $14.992018-02-19 — best price $14.992018-07-17 — best price $11.992018-11-13 — best price $3.742018-12-20 — best price $3.742019-02-11 — best price $14.992019-04-15 — best price $4.502019-07-09 — best price $14.992020-01-03 — best price $14.992020-03-23 — best price $14.992020-04-21 — best price $12.482020-07-15 — best price $14.992021-03-30 — best price $14.992021-11-02 — best price $14.992022-11-02 — best price $14.992023-12-22 — best price $2.242024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $1.692025-08-01 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2302026-06-01 — 7 pageviews2026-06-04 — 1 pageviews2026-06-07 — 1 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-16 — 4 pageviews2026-06-19 — 4 pageviews2026-06-22 — 2 pageviews2026-06-25 — 4 pageviews2026-06-28 — 1 pageviews2026-07-01 — 2 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 2 pageviews2026-07-10 — 2 pageviews2026-07-13 — 1 pageviews2026-07-16 — 4 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-22 — 2 pageviews2026-07-25 — 5 pageviews2026-07-29 — 3 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2 pageviews2026-08-04 — 3 pageviews2026-08-07 — 6 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-13 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 2 pageviews2026-08-19 — 2 pageviews2026-08-22 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 6 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews2026-08-29 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish

Player tags

2DDarkCo-opIndieShortPuzzleAdventureControllerPlatformerAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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