Underplayed Gems

Light & Shadow (2022)

Light & Shadow cover
Developer
Flawed Designs
Platforms
Windows, macOS
Genres
Adventure, Free To Play
Rating
4.6 of 5, 179 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 53 minutes
Where to get it
Steam
The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A contemplative, shadow-puppet journey through a grey world, where you gently overcome internal struggles to find small moments of joy.

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What players say

Players praise Light & Shadow as a short, relaxing platformer with beautiful music and a striking shadow puppet art style. Its mental health themes about anxiety and depression resonate, but some find the gameplay repetitive, with too much time spent collecting music notes and little challenge.

Screenshots

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.