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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 · Perspectives: Third person

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.

Shadow Puppeteer is an Adventure, Indie and Free To Play game released in 2014, priced as free-to-play, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 231 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000.

3
playing now
78%
positive of 231 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
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)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 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

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 28% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820142026Week of 2014-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 8 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 3 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

1102026-06-01 — 7 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 4 pageviews2026-06-21 — 11 pageviews2026-06-25 — 4 pageviews2026-06-29 — 3 pageviews2026-07-03 — 9 pageviews2026-07-07 — 2 pageviews2026-07-11 — 5 pageviews2026-07-15 — 5 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-23 — 3 pageviews2026-07-27 — 6 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 3 pageviews2026-08-17 — 7 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 6 pageviews2026-08-29 — 3 pageviews2026-09-02 — 3 pageviews2026-09-06 — 5 pageviews2026-09-10 — 2 pageviews2026-09-14 — 4 pageviews2026-09-18 — 3 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4 pageviews2026-09-26 — 0 pageviews2026-09-30 — 3 pageviews2026-10-04 — 4 pageviews2026-10-08 — 3 pageviews2026-10-11 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

6
achievements tracked
66.4%
earned "Afraid of the dark"
13.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-01-29 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,29220%6

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

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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