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Shadowgrounds breathes fresh air into the action genre with explosive combat sequences, an innovative weapon upgrade system, and an intriguing storyline. The adrenaline-pumping, top-down gameplay and audiovisual fireworks set the scene for this new action experience which also includes single computer (split keyboard or joystick) co-op...

Shadowgrounds is a top-down shooter, sci-fi and aliens game developed and published by Frozenbyte.
Released on May 08th 2006 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 1,558 reviews of which 1,269 were positive and 289 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.88€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Shadowgrounds into these genres:

Top-Down Shooter Sci-fi Aliens Action Shooter Singleplayer Horror Top-Down Gore Isometric Adventure Twin Stick Shooter Indie Shoot 'Em Up Dark PvE Local Co-Op Combat Co-op Multiplayer

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
Minimum: 1.3 GHZ or Equivalent, 384 MB RAM, GeForce 4 Ti 4200* or ATi Radeon 9000 or better, 1 GB free hard drive space, Windows 2000/XP
Recommended: 2.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, GeForce FX 5900 Ultra or ATi Radeon 9500 Pro or better
* Please note that Shadowgrounds does not run on GeForce 4 MX cards.
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.6.5 or newer - Unfortunately OS X 10.9 or newer NOT supported
  • Processor: Intel Mac
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 1GB
  • Video Card: : OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB shared or dedicated RAM (ATI or NVIDIA)*
  • DirectX®: 9.0
  • Additional: Keyboard+mouse or Keyboard+trackpad
  • *Please be advised that the game does not run on Intel graphics solutions (such as Macbooks from 2006-2008 and the new MacBook Pro 13" models from 2011). The game does run on most Macs from 2009 onwards that have a distinct graphics chip (such as those with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M but graphics details need to be turned down for smooth gameplay).

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025
A fun top-down shooter with a variety of upgradeable weapons, and enough enemy types to keep it interesting. The game is a little janky, and it isn't long, but it's a fun romp through classic early 2000s sci-fi horror tropes. Almost every trope is referenced here, and its done with complete seriousness, adding to the humor. The only cons are 1. no save system and 2. a few gamebreaking bugs. The game saves once you reach the beginning of each level, but my character got soft locked near the end of one level, and I had to restart from the beginning of the level. Extremely frustrating bug, but it only happened once. If 1 is abysmal and 10 is the best gaming experience I've ever had, I'd rate this a 6.5/10. It amused me and kept me engaged for the 4 hours it took to beat it. I wouldn't revisit it probably, but it was fun.
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Feb. 2025
The only top-down shooter in history which looked like a modern game of its time and not like indie game of some sort. Well, there were games like Half-Life 2 back in 2000s, of course, but not every game was even close to that level. Still, this game starts like horror of some sort and I think it should have kept such style. But apparently devs had different vision. By the way you can try to play it on easy because the game is pretty damn hard.
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Dec. 2024
This game surprised me. Definitely worth $1 on sale. Took about 6 hours to complete and it is somewhat repetitive but the cheesy dialog makes up for anything lacking. Played with a ps4 controller using most popular community key bindings. Can't wait to try the second one!!
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Aug. 2024
Ignore the haters. This game came out a long time ago when Steam was first turning into its own thing. Games like this really made Steam stand out as a place that would feature a wide variety of high quality games that you didn't have to buy a physical copy of. For the technology at the time, it's rather excellent. The voice acting was good and inspiring. It was very memorable if I am here decades later finally completing it.
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June 2024
Serviceable experience and reasonable price in a genre without a lot of other options.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Shadowgrounds is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

Shadowgrounds is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

Shadowgrounds received 1,269 positive votes out of a total of 1,558 achieving a rating of 7.80.
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Shadowgrounds was developed and published by Frozenbyte.

Shadowgrounds is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Shadowgrounds is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Shadowgrounds is not playable on Linux.

Shadowgrounds offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Shadowgrounds offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

Shadowgrounds does not currently offer any DLC.

Shadowgrounds does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Shadowgrounds supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Shadowgrounds is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Shadowgrounds.

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Shadowgrounds
4.99€ -83% 4.99€ 0.88€ -64% 4.99€ 1.80€
7.8
1,269
289
Game modes
Features
Online players
0
Developer
Frozenbyte
Publisher
Frozenbyte
Release 08 May 2006
Platforms
Remote Play
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