Shadows of Adam
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11.9h 21.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.26/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 267 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.67 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
Gorgeous pixel art. Intense, blazing fast battles. An epic adventure. This is the must-play retro indie JRPG built for the modern era.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Radeon HD 6310, 748 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 51 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition ($34.99, scores 71) outscores it, and so does Felvidek ($10.99, scores 85). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Shadows of Adam
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 11 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
The drop-off
72% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 01:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A dainty JRPG that desires to be a blast to the past. Shadows of Adam is a manufactured revival of the classic turn based combat games of the NES and SNES era, featuring a polished gameplay, cleaned from the most annoying aspects of previous generation entries such as: grinding, slow combat, random encounters and restricted mana (here, named AP, gets regenerated). Here there is a precise number of enemies per area...
2 more reviews
The story is simple but wholesome and interconnected. Mechanics are quite oldschool, although there is active in-fight mana restoration, that is occasionally annoying because some fight tend to end before the replensih happens. A lot of box pushing puzzles, maybe a bit too much in the later dungeons, that drag for quite some time. The game also felt too linear until the flying ship point and DLC content, DLC was...
What a great little game. It's short, and breezy, and never feels like a slog. Combat is reasonably challenging and some bosses (looking at you, possessed andidote kid) are legit tough. The music is hit or miss but some tracks are stellar. It's a lot like FF Mystic Quest - which is a good thing!
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Cite this score
Shadows of Adam scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/506510/shadows-of-adamReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.