The Consuming Shadow is an adventure developed by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, released 20 November 2015 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Consuming Shadow is
The Consuming Shadow is an adventure game developed by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw and released in 2015. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Consuming Shadow holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Consuming Shadow launched on 20 November 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront and Just Cause 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3.
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