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The Consuming Shadow

Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw · 2015-11-20

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Nov 20, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.

The Consuming Shadow is an Adventure game released in 2015, priced at $0.99, with Very Positive reviews (95% of 429 reviews) and an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners.

0
playing now
95%
positive of 429 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
55/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (6 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 11k–26k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 429 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
181Nov 2015Jul 2025Nov 2015 — avg 18 · peak 61Feb 2016 — avg 4 · peak 16May 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2016 — avg 2 · peak 6Feb 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8May 2017 — avg 1 · peak 8Aug 2017 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2017 — avg 2 · peak 9Feb 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6May 2018 — avg 1 · peak 8Aug 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2019 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2022 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2025 — avg 2 · peak 6Jul 2025 — avg 1 · peak 28
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.492015-07-302026-07-092015-07-30 — best price $9.992015-08-11 — best price $9.992015-08-28 — best price $8.492015-09-05 — best price $7.492015-09-07 — best price $8.492015-09-11 — best price $9.992015-11-20 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $4.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-02-05 — best price $4.992016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-05-05 — best price $3.392016-05-23 — best price $9.992016-06-23 — best price $4.992016-07-04 — best price $9.992017-06-23 — best price $4.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-10-26 — best price $4.992017-11-01 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $4.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-06-21 — best price $2.492018-07-05 — best price $9.992022-05-02 — best price $4.992022-05-09 — best price $9.992023-06-26 — best price $0.992025-03-13 — best price $0.792025-03-20 — best price $0.992025-06-26 — best price $0.492025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-09-29 — best price $0.492025-10-06 — best price $0.992025-12-18 — best price $0.492026-01-05 — best price $0.992026-03-19 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $0.492026-07-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
75.1%
earned "Ending G"
20.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsStatsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6681%95

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

Player tags

2DDarkIndieHorrorViolentAdventureRogue-likeRogue-liteAtmosphericLovecraftian

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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