Shadowgrounds

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 1,549 reviews of which 1,261 were positive and 288 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 0.74€ on Steam and has a 85% discount.

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 Combat Local Co-Op Co-op Multiplayer

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Requirements

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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).

Reviews

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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!!

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.

June 2024

Serviceable experience and reasonable price in a genre without a lot of other options.

March 2024

Surprisingly enjoyable old school top down scifi shooter. Lots of variety in enemies and weapons with an upgrade system. Story is...present but honestly very meh except for the terrible deadpan delivery of the player character. It's hilarious honestly. Feels like a forgotten gem, janky for sure, but thoroughly enjoyable, especially for how cheaply it can be had on sale.

March 2024

Good game and good story. Only the ending rubbed me the wrong way a little bit. If they had done two different endings in which you could decide how to procede, it would be great. My rating 6/10, recommended.

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