Shadows: Awakening

Shadows: Awakening is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Games Farm and released in 2018. It was published by Kalypso Media Digital. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 45 achievements to unlock.

Shadows: Awakening holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 48% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Compatible 2.1 GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM and GTX460 2GB or compatible. 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 13GB. 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 →

Shadows: Awakening launched on 30 August 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition.

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadows: Awakening 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 →