Shadwen
Skip · Action · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $16.99.
- Length
- 5.9h
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 260 / Radeon HD 4000 Series / Intel HD Graphics 4000, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Shadwen is a 3rd person stealth-action game where the only rule is to remain unseen. Stay hidden - or the ruthless guards will kill you on sight!
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
March 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.39. It has been discounted 98 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 34 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Assassin's Creed® Syndicate ($5.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Assassin's Creed Valhalla ($11.99, scores 24).
Critics scored it 53. Players sit 24 points higher at 77 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 354 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 188 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.9 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
61% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 11:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Stealth game - not enough of these on the market anymore - it's a bit easy but I liked it.
very good game, if you like stealth and physics and grappling hooks and bombs and dropping crates on people you will love this game
Fine for what it is, though due to the lenght of a single playthrough, I cannot recommend it for full price. At the time of writing, I've finished one stealth run of the main quest and am sitting at 6.7 hours, without playing the unlocked escape chapters. I'll return to it one day and go full aggro route, but for now this is getting shelved. Gameplay is okay, I had fun. I'd recommend this but only on sale.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Shadwen scores 36/100 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/425210/shadwenReviews 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 23, price as of Oct 1.
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