Somewhere in the Shadow
Skip · Narrative · 2021
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 1.3h
- Value
- $2.30/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 733 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Woke up in strange dark spot. Who has done it with you? And why? Try to get out from that scary place and stay alive...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
23 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 22 percent on value. It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Emissary Zero ($8.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Occult ($4.99, scores 25).
More about Somewhere in the Shadow
This site sampled 415 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,627 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 21 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 509 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 88 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 07:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game is so abysmally terrible that it loops back around to being genuinely hysterical if you play it with friends.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Somewhere in the Shadow scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1577320/somewhere-in-the-shadowReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.