Shadows: Awakening
Shadows: Awakening
Game
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Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms
Developer Games Farm
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is an action role-playing game released on Windows in November 2014. An isometric game, it is developed by the Slovakian studio Games Farm, formerly known as 3D People, and published by bitComposer Games. The predecessor of Shadows is Kult: Heretic Kingdoms, published in 2004, the successor is Shadows: Awakening which serves as both a remake and sequel to Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
454 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
55
Mixed
106 positive · 86 negative
95% range 48–62%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 36 | 8 | 207 |
| Steam reviews | 106 | 86 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
116 of 209 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
55% recommend · 106 yes, 88 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 194 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (266 of 449 positive).
Players praise the game's story, voice acting, and dual-realm mechanics. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game is only half of a story, requiring a separate purchase. [4][5][6] Combat is criticized for being sluggish, buggy, and spawning too many enemies. [7][8][9]
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- [7]
This game is beautifully made, voice overs are great, quests, loot, crafting. But what is at the heart of every game like this, combat. Now I will say, combat in itself is just as well done as the rest of the game. However, someone on the dev team needs to understand the importance of mob spawning and placement. For me this is where the game literally falls apart. there is almost no space to manuver in this game as …
- [4]
AVOID THIS GAME. EVERYTHING IN THIS GAME IS CONTAINED IN [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/585450/Shadows_Awakening/]SHADOWS: AWAKENING. This game is only the first half of Shadows: Awakening, which is the full game. EDIT: I only just saw the updates from the comments below. I'm told that, if you purchase this game through Steam, your purchase will include both Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms and Shadows: Awakening. …
- [1]
Updated Note: The developers seem to have the rights to the IP now and by all accounts are working on getting the second half of the game! When it comes to ARPGs, Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms travels down the road less traveled, managing to not only deviate from what has become a tired and overused model but to do so with style. ARPGs very rarely have a captivating story but I found Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms to be an …
- [2]
Gameplay Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLIimXdq5c0 + Visuals & Level design + Voice Acting + Easy to get to grips with + Exploration and questing + Fluent movement + Dual-realm mechanics and puzzles + Moral choices + Easy to sink hours into + Multiple characters to choose from + Expansive maps + Very challenging bosses - Story is poorly presented - No co-op - Combat is slow to begin - Gear Drops are fairly …
- [3]
This game is amazingly well done. Excellent story line thus far, flexibility in how you approach things, and an innovative method of dealing with a "party" type situation without having a party following you. You are able to switch back and forth between playing a soul devourer and his many meat puppets. The game pay reminds me on some levels of the genius of the old game Soulbringer,in that you uncover things and …
Summarised from 34 of the 296 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms talk about great story and voice acting; those who didn't talk about game is incomplete, ending mid-story. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 454 · most liked firstUbisoft feeling confident over on Twitter… (Musk notoriously reacted to AC Shadows’ reveal and its Black samurai by saying the game was proof that “DEI kills art”)
neutral · AI labelView post →Assassin’s Creed Shadows is an incredibly impressive looking game wow!
positive · AI labelView post →i would like to formally apologize to all Better Offline listeners for saying that Kyle Katarn was in the N64 game Shadows of the Empire rather than the heroic Dash Rendar. We regret the error
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m as surprised as anyone, but 20+ hours later, I have to admit that Ubisoft is ABSOLUTELY COOKING with Assassin’s Creed Shadows. I have not spent real time with one of these games since Origins (!!), a game I really liked. I tried but bounced off Valhalla. But Shadows...? Hoo boy.
positive · AI labelView post →The backlash over Yasuke being in Assassin's Creed: Shadows is hilarious because these fools know it's a fictional game but whine about historical accuracy. Yasuke was a samurai in Dynasty Warriors, but all of a sudden he isn't. The game isn't even out yet. All this bitching about woke is dumb.
neutral · AI labelView post →@ubisoft.com You guys could have made so much money from me if you'd had more in-game purchase cats for Assassin's Creed: Shadows. Would've started a whole damn cat sanctuary at the hideout. 😔
positive · AI labelView post →5 hours with Assassin's Creed Shadows reveals a game that is unsuccessfully trying to remix the core Assassin's Creed gameplay loops, splitting them out across two separate characters in a way that feels awkward and poorly thought out. My impressions: youtu.be/aAlobYH_zzM?...
negative · AI labelView post →This game is beautifully made, voice overs are great, quests, loot, crafting. But what is at the heart of every game like this, combat. Now I will say, combat in itself is just as well done as the rest of the game. However, someone on the dev team needs to understand the importance of mob spawning and placement. For me this is where the game literally falls apart. there is almost no space to manuver in this game as it is, then add the mob spawn logic. Take two steps and mobs spawn in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Did some Petra symbiote doodles on the side. Also, I like the mvc2 venom colour scheme for most of these. Sidenote, Web of Shadows is def the best spider-man game. #petraparker #art #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →I have played this game for four hours at this point and am unsure whether to give a thumbs up or a thumbs down. This may be a product of not playing the game enough but in most games I play, by 4 hours you usually know where the game is going. So this is what I know so far and what I believe people will find useful if they are looking at buying this game. I bought this game because I wanted to try another arpg that marketed itself as being different from the usual model. This game does…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They cancelled an Assassin's Creed game where you were a slave and killed KKK members because of the anti-DEI response to Shadows.
neutral · AI labelView post →The biggest launches in #AssassinsCreed history 🎮 1️⃣ 'Assassin's Creed Valhalla' 2️⃣ 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' (via The Game Business)
neutral · AI labelView post →A new addition to the "Stream your own game" library is emerging from the darkness soon. Stay on your toes for Assassin's Creed Shadows: xbx.lv/4heOdsm
neutral · AI labelView post →Assassin’s Creed Shadows is probably the best game I’ve seen outside of a racing sim when it comes to simulating weather getting awful rapidly.
positive · AI labelView post →This Star Wars day, I am specifically celebrating the 30th anniversary of my beloved (but currently non-canonical) SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE multimedia project, whose novel, junior novelization, comic, soundtrack(!), video game, & toy line were released over 1996. Bring back Dash Rendar you cowards.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gamers who can’t handle others having different opinions about a video game are almost as bad as gamers who don’t like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every video game developer account, publisher account, and main account should be responding to grifters the same way the AC Shadows account has been
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in 2008, 17 years ago, Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia was first released. This game was the second Ranger game and featured brand new mechanics and various partner Pokémon www.serebii.net/ranger2/
neutral · AI labelView post →AVOID THIS GAME. EVERYTHING IN THIS GAME IS CONTAINED IN [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/585450/Shadows_Awakening/]SHADOWS: AWAKENING. This game is only the first half of Shadows: Awakening, which is the full game. EDIT: I only just saw the updates from the comments below. I'm told that, if you purchase this game through Steam, your purchase will include both Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms and Shadows: Awakening. I originally redeemed this as a key-only version that only contained Heretic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WE HARVEST SHADOWS is one of my favourite indie horror game demos in years, a really fun farm management game where the farm happens to be Deeply Haunted. Can't wait to get the full game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Warning: Stream edition is missing retail gameplay I’m not talking about the game being release in two halves. There’s actually locked doors and three quests in part 1 that can only be opened in the retail edition. It’s not available on the steam version, even to earliest of the early adaptors like myself. And there's nothing in the game to tell you this, so expect to waste time backtracking because you don't know which bits you were supposed to come back to with your new shiny, and which bits…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First snaps from Assassin's Creed Shadows 📸 This game is beautiful 😍
positive · AI labelView post →🎮 Assassins Creed Shadows Photo Mode goes HARD in this game 🔥
positive · AI labelView post →good lord, Shadows truly is a gorgeous game
positive · AI labelView post →Assassin's Creed: Shadows I love it so much when a game launches with photomode
positive · AI labelView post →Out of nowhere, Nintendo announced Fire Emblem Shadows. A new Fire Emblem game for mobile that launches today.
neutral · AI labelView post →Updated Note: The developers seem to have the rights to the IP now and by all accounts are working on getting the second half of the game! When it comes to ARPGs, Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms travels down the road less traveled, managing to not only deviate from what has become a tired and overused model but to do so with style. ARPGs very rarely have a captivating story but I found Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms to be an exception, that's not to say it's as good a story as found in story-driven…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game of Shadows #Shadow #Light #Photography
neutral · AI labelView post →If you are looking for another Diablo game, this is not it. Cons: EDIT: No more crashes happened after that first one so I guess this is a non-issue "It still has some technical issues but I only experienced 1 crash so far and you can say I abused the game quite a lot. Most games can't take the amount of Alt+Tab that I throw at them but this one did. :)" EDIT: this getting stuck has not happened in a long time. "The most annoyng technical issue I ran into is related to collision when the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🎮 Assassins Creed Shadows Winter in this game is absolutely stunning 😭
positive · AI labelView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows review: The best Assassin's Creed game in 10 years. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.videogameschronicle.com/review/assas...
neutral · AI labelView post →Game night with the boys on Xmas Eve. Shadows Over Camelot. 🤷♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Is A Really Good Video Game www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
neutral · AI labelView post →Assassin's Creed Shadows, out Thursday, might be big enough to reverse Ubisoft's crumbling fortunes. But the game faces headwinds.
neutral · AI labelView post →White Shadows Digital illustration of the prologue of A Game of Thrones
neutral · AI labelView post →PLEASE READ FULL REVIEW BEFORE JUST LOOKING AT MY RECOMMENDATION! Honestly, from the little I've played of this so far, I'm thoroughly intrigued as to where the game will go. I can't say it's the most original feeling experience as it is basically a "Diablo clone" (as much as I hate to use that term), but it does enough of its own thing to warrant my time, I think. Besides, if you're going to go for a style of game play, you could do a whole hell of a lot worse than iterating on solid design…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lion Dimitri is now an official thing! (From that new mobile shadowdropped game Fire Emblem Shadows)
neutral · AI labelView post →I just remembered Fire Emblem Shadows was a game that released this year despite playing it when it came out.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai is a hell of a game.
positive · AI labelView post →Man this game with raytracing is just something else. World design team absolutely crushed it with Shadows.
positive · AI labelView post →It's very nice game. Playing it was fun, but the most important thing is that this game is NOT FULL version. It ends in the middle of the story. To play next chapter you have to have Shadows: Awaking and start that game from the beginning. It's not worth buying, it's better to buy Shadows: Awaking - the same game with better graphic, it includes Shadows: Heretic kingdom story and gives much more.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“Rendering Assassin’s Creed Shadows” slides are available on GDCVault. gdcvault.com/play/1035526...
neutral · AI labelView post →Shadows of Forbidden Gods: Apocalypse Simulator Strategy Game bobbytwohands.itch.io/shadows-of-f... by @bobby2hands.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →For like half a second I genuinely believed this game starred Todd in the Shadows
neutral · AI labelView post →Y'know, with all the attempts at 3D Castlevania, it's kinda surprising there was never one that was a remake of the first game starring Simon. Apparently that was originally the plan for Lords of Shadows. Though I probably wouldn't take the Dracula twist well if it was Simon. lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Streaming AC: Shadows in a bit. This game is long as hell.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s Star Wars day and the Game Informer website exists again which means I can do things like share my favorite Star Wars video game piece: an in-depth retrospective on my favorite Star Wars game, Shadows of the Empire.
positive · AI labelView post →White Shadows Digital painting Illustration for the prologue of A Game of Thrones
neutral · AI labelView post →Overall, in just the short time I've had to play it, I would recommend this as a game. Yes, it is Early Acess (pre-alpha), combat feels a little slugish, same for picking up items, art work (for what ive seen) has been awesome, sound track has been engaging, need click+hold attacking. On the upside, switching between members is fun, seeing both the light/shadow sides and being able to level both seperate is a great thing to have. In its current state, I'd give it a 7/10, but I strongly believe…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Detective game Shadows of Doubt is kicking my ass aftermath.site/shadows-of-d...
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay yeah Asscreed Shadows is seriously the prettiest game I have ever played.
positive · AI labelView post →have to put the game down to take a break and i see that FE Shadows is still coming along. I'm surprised to see Bernadetta being included as a legacy character but I love her and I am glad to be seeing more of her
neutral · AI labelView post →Gameplay Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLIimXdq5c0 + Visuals & Level design + Voice Acting + Easy to get to grips with + Exploration and questing + Fluent movement + Dual-realm mechanics and puzzles + Moral choices + Easy to sink hours into + Multiple characters to choose from + Expansive maps + Very challenging bosses - Story is poorly presented - No co-op - Combat is slow to begin - Gear Drops are fairly rare - Prologue is a poor first impression Overall I would recommend this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is another example of why review bombing exists. I purchased this on sale a while back so it's not as bad for me as it will be for others. You see this is titled Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms, not Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms part 1 or chapter 1 or book 1. You think you are purchasing a full game, but despite buying the game I got to a door in chapter 1 only to find "that's it until you buy part 2". In no way is a couple hours and 3 character levels of game worth 40 dollars. The best part is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deleted from my hard drive..... Really, enjoying the game, but then CTD, CTD, CTD. There must be some bug that does not like it when you drag an item from the crafting slot or something. And then there are combat CTD's. The CTD's I could have lived with...just save often. But overpowered werewolves are more of a chore then fun to kill, especially when they are constantly regenerating health. I could handle one of them, but when you have two or more chasing you down this is NUTS. To the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →\Garbage. This has to be the WORST game I have played in over a decade. Locked doors and inaccessible areas because (arbitrarily) you didn't purchase the retail box. Nothing in game to indicate that this is the case. Yeah, the dev said f()ck you steam owners ("I'm sorry you feel that way"). Update: ignore the help requests pulled up in Google for this issue because they HAVE added the quests, but nothing updated since 2014. Running into other quests that cannot be completed because devs…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →listen up pussies i'm announcing my new RPG: 𝘿𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙃𝘽𝘼𝘿 𝙎𝙃𝘼𝘿𝙊𝙒𝙎𝙆𝙐𝙇𝙇 ⚔️☠️ YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED A GAME LIKE THIS BEFORE AND NEITHER HAVE WE. UNLEASH BAD DEATH ON THE SKULLS OF SHADOWS IN THIS BLOOD GUSHING COMMERCIAL PRODUCT coming to make $5,000,000 on kickstarter this halloween............
neutral · AI labelView post →After some embittering issues with their publisher, Games Farm has re-acquired control of their IP - including their classic Kult: Heretic Kingdoms. Rewarding customers with more game instead of a paywall was how they decided to celebrate. Any dev who puts their fans first will always be a winner to me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is a hack'n'slash RPG with a great story idea - you play the role of The Devourer who, as his name suggests, devours the souls of heroes. But this way, he also gives them a new life! In the end, this leads you to ability to switch between The Devourer and any of his collected hero souls. From beginning, you start with only one picked hero but as you go through the game, you'll find more characters - every character coming with its unique skillset. But don't get too…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely YES. This game is a fresh breeze in nowadays RPGs! Cool characters, many skill variations, tough gameplay, cool graphics, great atmosphere and storyline! Thumbs up for the developers from Slovakia!
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