Shadow Complex Remastered cover art

Shadow Complex Remastered

ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern, cutting-edge gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered, featuring all the content from the award-winning original game, updated with…

78 16 March 2016

Shadow Complex Remastered is an adventure developed by ChAIR Entertainment Group, released 16 March 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Shadow Complex Remastered is

Shadow Complex Remastered is an adventure game developed by ChAIR Entertainment Group and released in 2016. It was published by Epic Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shadow Complex is a Metroidvania video game developed by Chair Entertainment in association with Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 in 2009.
Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 39 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Shadow Complex Remastered holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce 7800 (512MB cache). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

Full requirements and PC checker →

What it launched against

Shadow Complex Remastered launched on 16 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley and SuperHot. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley, SuperHot.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadow Complex Remastered yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

Know one? Send it in and we will test it →

Official trailer

Trailer thumbnail

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

All media

Parents

Quick answers

Shadow Complex Remastered — frequently asked questions

When did Shadow Complex Remastered come out?
Shadow Complex Remastered was released on 16 March 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Shadow Complex Remastered?
At minimum, Shadow Complex Remastered needs Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800 (512MB cache) graphics, 2048 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Shadow Complex Remastered?
The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2048 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

If you like this

Games like Shadow Complex Remastered

See all