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Shadows Peak cover art

Shadows Peak

Gua · 2017-03-13

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 13, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Shadows Peak is an atmospheric, open-world horror game focused on exploration that doesn't hold your hand. You play as a writer who has decided to visit a mysterious place called Shadows Peak to gather materials for a new book about legends.

Shadows Peak is an Action, Adventure game released in 2017, priced at $9.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (72% of 347 reviews).

1
playing now
72%
positive of 347 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

You play as a writer who decided to visit mysterious place called Shadows Peak to gather materials for a new book about legends. Number of people gone missing in Shadows Peak. Some people claim that they saw something that they couldn’t have seen there and, of course, there are some dark legends surrounding this place.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.7k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 347 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2023-10-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320172026Week of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.492016-03-192026-07-092016-03-19 — best price $6.792016-07-04 — best price $7.992016-11-14 — best price $7.992017-01-16 — best price $7.992017-06-22 — best price $5.492017-09-25 — best price $4.792017-12-11 — best price $4.292018-04-23 — best price $3.992018-09-24 — best price $3.692018-12-21 — best price $3.592019-05-27 — best price $3.292019-09-02 — best price $2.992019-11-26 — best price $4.892020-02-17 — best price $4.592020-06-25 — best price $4.292020-11-09 — best price $3.992021-02-11 — best price $4.992021-05-27 — best price $4.992021-10-04 — best price $7.992021-12-06 — best price $4.992022-02-21 — best price $7.992022-06-23 — best price $7.992023-01-09 — best price $5.992023-04-06 — best price $5.992023-08-28 — best price $2.992023-12-21 — best price $2.492024-03-14 — best price $2.592024-07-22 — best price $2.492024-12-19 — best price $2.492025-04-28 — best price $2.492025-08-07 — best price $2.492025-12-08 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
34%
earned "Black Mass"
4.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, Russian, French, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)18310%21

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

Player tags

FPSIndieActionHorrorMysteryShooterAdventureOpen WorldAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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