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The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.

The Consuming Shadow is a lovecraftian, adventure and survival horror game developed and published by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw.
Released on November 20th 2015 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 398 reviews of which 378 were positive and 20 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 0.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Consuming Shadow into these genres:

Lovecraftian Adventure Survival Horror Rogue-lite Violent 2D Indie Horror Atmospheric Procedural Generation Dark Psychological Horror Rogue-like Singleplayer

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 or up
  • Processor: Inter Core i3 or up
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel integrated graphics or up
  • Storage: 60 MB available space

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Feb. 2025
Yahtzee made a sick deduction game and I paid a dollar for it. I've bought bars of candy that cost more than twice as much and have been infinitely more disappointed. Buy it. Play it.
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Feb. 2025
If you're into horror and eldritch related stuff, this is definitely for you as you only about a certain amount of time to banish the invading god until it comes. It's a bit like cluedo but without the murder mystery stuff...though I will tell you lot, it's a lot of fun with the Birthday Stars as they increase your stats permanently throughout a whole run. I also like how the game has a system to keep people from staying in one place for too long by making stalker chase them after the dungeon is complete. I'll give this a 9/10 rating, heavily recommend playing due to multiple endings and all that.
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Jan. 2025
Cosmic-horror themed deduction-based roguelite. While not the prettiest game, The Consuming Shadow has a very unique and satisfying gameplay loop.
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Dec. 2024
So you want to figure out which of the three Lovecraftian entities involved is currently invading our side of the universe? To that I say, good luck, for you only have 60 hours to figure it out and the universe seems to be pretty suicidal right now given how much it refuses to give you the last piece of clue to figure out the banishment ritual.
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July 2024
before you start you can select "kill myself" which will genuinely end the game best game best game
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Consuming Shadow is currently priced at 0.99€ on Steam.

The Consuming Shadow is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 0.99€ on Steam.

The Consuming Shadow received 378 positive votes out of a total of 398 achieving a rating of 8.76.
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The Consuming Shadow was developed and published by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw.

The Consuming Shadow is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Consuming Shadow is not playable on MacOS.

The Consuming Shadow is not playable on Linux.

The Consuming Shadow is a single-player game.

The Consuming Shadow does not currently offer any DLC.

The Consuming Shadow does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Consuming Shadow does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Consuming Shadow 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.

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The Consuming Shadow
0.99€
8.8
378
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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Release 20 Nov 2015
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