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Shadow Walls

Old School Vibes · 2020-10-22

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 22, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Kill a variety of enemies with your pistol or swing your bat. Collect letters while you trying to find your sister in dark atmospheric action top-down shooter 2D game.

Shadow Walls is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie title released in 2020, priced at $0.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 54 reviews).

0
playing now
93%
positive of 54 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 83% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (36 reviews).
  • · Top 52% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 54 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2021-01-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
353520202026Week of 2020-10-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.492020-10-222026-07-092020-10-22 — best price $1.392020-12-22 — best price $0.692021-02-01 — best price $0.992021-03-15 — best price $0.492021-05-17 — best price $0.992021-08-09 — best price $0.502021-11-01 — best price $0.992021-11-24 — best price $0.592022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-01-27 — best price $0.592022-05-23 — best price $0.992022-11-07 — best price $0.592022-11-29 — best price $0.992022-12-22 — best price $0.592023-01-23 — best price $0.992023-03-16 — best price $0.792023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-09-18 — best price $0.492023-11-02 — best price $0.992024-03-14 — best price $0.492024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-09-16 — best price $0.492024-11-04 — best price $0.992024-12-16 — best price $0.492025-03-20 — best price $0.992025-12-18 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
88.1%
earned "Into the Walls"
36.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

DemonsHorrorSurvivalTop-DownLore-RichHand-drawnStory RichAtmosphericDark FantasySupernatural

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.