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Sounds of Shadows

Silent Labs · Breda University of Applied Sciences · 2025-07-02

Steam

ActionAdventureFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 02, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You wake up as a robot in a dark place, deep underground. There is a voice inside your head. follow it to find out what happened. Navigate the facility through sound, but don't be too loud. It has great hearing. Uncover the history of unfortunate souls in this first person sci-fi horror game.

Sounds of Shadows is an Action, Adventure, and Free To Play game released in 2025, with a Positive review sentiment (96% of 23 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

96%
positive of 23 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
Free
steam price (US)

You are B4-BY, a sightless maintenance robot in an underground science facility. While you were powered down, calamity struck the facility's populace. For most of the scientists, it is too late.... But one of them has survived, and it is your task to find and save her. However, something roams the dark and quiet corridors of the facility. You are not alone.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 72% of 27,682 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520252026Week of 2025-07-03: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportVR SupportedCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundStatsSteam Leaderboards

Census log

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