Shadow Complex Remastered
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 3193 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 7800 (512MB cache), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.
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
It has never been cheaper than $4.94. That was December 2016. It has been discounted 7 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 67 percent off, with about 17 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 456 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ghost Song ($19.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats AWAKEN - Astral Blade ($19.99, scores 50).
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
5.2 hours to finish it, 11 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
70% start to 21% 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
After playing this incredibly underrated metroidvania 3 different times? I'll have to strongly recomend this metroidvania to everyone who enjoys the genre. Its got plenty of tutorial stages that could easily help out novices if they wanted to start this genre with SCR. It was recommended to me years ago though i forgot who suggested me to try this out unfortunately. Though Jason Fleming is a badass protagonist ngl...
Pure nostalgia bait for me right here. I bought it the day it released on Xbox arcade and beat it a few days later. Released at a time when I was obsessed with Gears of War and would buy any Unreal engine game, even Blacksite:Area 51 which I actually enjoyed. I wasn't into side scrollers or metrovania style games but this turned me into a fan and after I beat it was buying up any similar game I could find on the...
A fun Metroidvania twin-stick platformer. Has its moments of jank, and some of the items are pretty blatant padding of the "if you come back here later, you can break this panel and get the item behind it" variety. But the movement is good, the level design is solid, and the writing is goofy fun.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shadow Complex Remastered scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/385560/shadow-complex-remasteredReviews 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 1.
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