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Shadowlight · 2026 · Windows

Steam: 85 % positive of 490 reviews, as of Oct 28

Kill the Shadow is a detective game with multiple endings, featuring 2.5D pixel art and semi-open exploration and investigation. Play as Lucas, a former police officer, alongside a mysterious Shadow who can see the “past.” Remember—every choice you make will change the fate of countless characters!

24 games that play like Kill The Shadow and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Lamplight City, Tales of the Neon Sea and The Case of the Golden Idol.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Story Rich
  • RPG
  • 3D
  • Mystery
  • Puzzle
  • Detective
  • Pixel Graphics
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Plays and looks like Kill The Shadow

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Kill The Shadow

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Until Then96 % positive of 16,182Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Pixel Graphics
  2. Enigma of Fear95 % positive of 3,122Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Puzzle
  3. Blacksad: Under the Skin83 % positive of 5,395Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Puzzle
  4. Murders on the Yangtze River95 % positive of 15,945Shared: Story Rich · RPG · Mystery
  5. Kathy Rain92 % positive of 1,865Shared: Story Rich · RPG · Mystery
  6. Reventure95 % positive of 8,469Shared: Pixel Graphics · Exploration · Multiple Endings
  7. Shadows Over Loathing95 % positive of 3,145Shared: Story Rich · RPG · Puzzle
  8. Jenny LeClue - Detectivu86 % positive of 1,253Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Puzzle
  9. MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE76 % positive of 260Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Pixel Graphics
  10. Kathy Rain: Director's Cut91 % positive of 1,384Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Puzzle
  11. Unavowed95 % positive of 2,325Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Detective
  12. Tangle Tower93 % positive of 6,664Shared: Story Rich · Mystery · Puzzle

By look

Looks like Kill The Shadow

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Rue Valley69 % positive of 1,942
  2. Minds Beneath Us96 % positive of 5,881
  3. Pathologic 292 % positive of 9,627
  4. LumineNight87 % positive of 540
  5. The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters95 % positive of 2,827
  6. of the Devil99 % positive of 2,703
  7. MOOD86 % positive of 436
  8. Pathologic 379 % positive of 2,564
  9. A Light in the Dark91 % positive of 1,535
  10. Martial Law91 % positive of 3,859
  11. OPUS: Prism Peak91 % positive of 1,112
  12. Sister Ray94 % positive of 475

At a glance

What games like Kill The Shadow have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Kill The Shadow: Story Rich (22 of 24), Mystery (20) and Puzzle (14).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2025, none of them after Kill The Shadow (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Case of the Golden Idol (96 % positive of 9,923).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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