White Shadows
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $8.00/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960 | AMD R9 380, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The wolves are watching! Venture through a captivating but brutal dystopia where our young adventurer Ravengirl will travel through this huge city’s brightest highs and delve to its darkest depths on her perilous journey of discovery and finding her destiny where hope seems in short supply.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
May 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.19. 49 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. On the same math Omno ($18.99, scores 60) and FAR: Lone Sails ($14.99, scores 73) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 650 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 251 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
48% start to 34% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
♡ TLDR ♡ White Shadows is a simple puzzle platformer with a heavy story and a dark atmosphere released in December of 2021. As Monokel's 1st game, this little indie gem deserves some praise. I really think they did a fantastic job and I would be interested to see another title by them in the future. It is very short (2.3 hours) and I don't see a ton of replayability - this being said - I do think $20 USD is a bit...
Good enough to buy on sale, not a perfect game, but for the first game from this dev it is good enough. Good enough to keep an eye on what they come up with next.
White Shadows was a noir styled dystopian story with probably good ideas behind it but fell off with a bad execution. The trigger warning at the start made me think that they had a good base for their dystopian world, and they actually wanted to touch upon the reality of racism, xenophobia, the power hierarchy and separatism. However, the end product seems like they hesitated to create a world too grim and kept the...
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Cite this score
White Shadows scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1158890/white-shadowsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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