Shadow Walker

So you want to become a shadow walker? In this game, you walk through a 4x4 grid of rooms, fighting your way through shadow biomes to prove your strength. During the day, you can see perfectly fine, but as…

31 January 2025

Adventure Fighting Indie Shooter Action Horror

Shadow Walker is an adventure, released 31 January 2025 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 4 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Shadow Walker is

Shadow Walker was released in 2025. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

So you want to become a shadow walker? In this game, you walk through a 4x4 grid of rooms, fighting your way through shadow biomes to prove your strength. During the day, you can see perfectly fine, but as night falls, your visibility is dimed, and that is when you are truly tested.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Shadow Walker launched on 31 January 2025, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed, Sid Meier's Civilization VII, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.