Shadow Labyrinth
Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer and a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic PAC-MAN. As The Swordsman, you wake on a mysterious planet amidst relics of wars past. To survive you will discover…
Shadow Labyrinth is an adventure developed by Bandai Namco Studios, released 18 July 2025 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch.
What Shadow Labyrinth is
Shadow Labyrinth is an adventure game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and released in 2025. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the distant year 3333, three decades after a catastrophic disruption sent a powerful weapon crashing onto the ravaged planet Xevious, a player from the real world of 2025 is abruptly pulled through into the game's universe. He awakens as a strange, helpless figure in the ruins of a prison, without arms or a mouth, utterly lost in an alien and hostile land. There he is found by a robotic companion named PUCK, who declares him her eighth summoning attempt, and a mysterious being grants him a prosthetic arm so he may wield a sword, transforming him into a Swordsman. Together, the two set out across the devastated world, soon uncovering that Xevious lies under the control of a malevolent…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Pac-Man series
Shadow Labyrinth is the 273rd of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Everybody’s Golf: Hot Shots in 2025. Its critic score of 70 is almost exactly the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX at 98.
How it was received
Shadow Labyrinth holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-3225 / AMD A6-7400K, 4 GB RAM and Intel Arc A580 / AMD Radeon R9 270X / GeForce GTX 750Ti. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Shadow Labyrinth launched on 18 July 2025, within three weeks of Mafia: The Old Country, Donkey Kong Bananza, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers and Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The Old Country, Donkey Kong Bananza, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadow Labyrinth yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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