Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is a metroidvania, adventure and indie game developed by Shadow Planet Productions and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on April 17th 2012 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 860 reviews of which 747 were positive and 113 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 13.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *:Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7
  • Processor:Intel Core Duo (1.25ghz) / AMD Athlon XP (1.8ghz)
  • Memory:1 GB RAM
  • Graphics:GeForce FX series+ / Radeon 9500+
  • DirectX®:9.0
  • Hard Drive:2 GB HD space

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Nov. 2024
A nice little metroidvania. Movement is incredibly smooth and satisfying, and there's just enough unlockables to keep you enticed until the end. I highly suggest you 100% this in your first go. Not much for replayability, but very rewarding in a single playthrough.
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June 2024
It's a small game with a cool and beautiful art style, featuring unique gameplay with quirky creatures and eerie backgrounds. A small game. A small flying saucer game. A small hidden gem-like game.
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June 2024
I love grabbing helpless shadow creatures with my mechanical arm and beating them into walls and shaking the hell out of them and swinging them around. The 2D realtime rendered vector art graphics hold up very well 12-13 years after release, it looks so crisp at 1080p and probably even better in 4K. Very fun little game, played it a lot on the Xbox 360. I know they would never, but I think they should make a sequel. =] Short and anticlimactic ending tho.
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May 2024
It's a pretty neat game. A lot shorter than I thought and I certainly wouldn't call it a Metroivania. But all in all, I had fun with it.
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April 2024
Cool little mix between a shooter and a metroidvania with quite an amazing art style. It's a bit too linear and doesn't go deep into your typical metroidvania mechanics but that's ok, means that's a bit more relaxing, however the shooting part can still be stressfull if you dont have good reflexes like... me :D
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Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
8.2
747
113
Online players
0
Developer
Shadow Planet Productions
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Release 17 Apr 2012
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