Shady Part of Me

 PC
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Adventure Gamers
    Mar 4, 2021
    70
    Shady Part of Me offers an interesting and entertaining take on the light/shadow dichotomy used as a puzzle mechanic, though the lack of a strong narrative to bind it all together (when one is clearly hinted at throughout) does raise a single but important warning flag.
  2. Everyeye.it
    Dec 28, 2020
    70
    Shady Part of Me remains a good level puzzle-platformer and an experience that, in its own small way, has something to say.
  3. Vandal
    Dec 15, 2020
    70
    This is a peaceful experience, full of puzzles and a compelling story about inner struggles, which we have found to be perfect to sit back and relax.
  5. Jeuxvideo.com
    Dec 12, 2020
    70
    Without ever revolutionizing the genre and endowed with less inspired passages, this puzzle and platform game, able to test the most lively minds, merges content and form to transcribe a duality that is both playful and visual.

Awards & Rankings

96
#96 Best PC Game of 2020

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User Score
6.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17
  1. SuperkenGaming
    Dec 13, 2020
    8
    Shady Part of Me
    Facing your fears
    Shady Part of Me is a 4 hour long puzzle platformer where you play asa girl whos afraid of the light, but    Shady Part of Me
    Facing your fears
    Shady Part of Me is a 4 hour long puzzle platformer where you play asa girl whos afraid of the light, but you also play as her shadow.
    Shady Part of me starts as one of the most unique gaming experiences ive played in a while.. youll be going back and forth between the two characters, pulling levers and items to help the other progress, and for its first half its absolutely magical, reminding me a lot of limbo… howver Shady Part of Me suffers from the same thing I believe limbo does… and that’s just its second half being boggges down with too much puzzle… this is Shady Part of Me’s biggest issue.. it starts out amazing, you forget this is a puzzle game just due to the fact that interacting with its world is so fun, you cant wait to see what the next section has to offer… and then you get smacked with the same old boring cogs and factory nonsense, really killing the magic for me in this game… it gets more and more tiresome the more the game goes on as it loses focus, it stops trying to tell you a story and deliver magic and just starts hitting you over the head with puzzle puzzle puzzle, the game starts to feel like forumelic sections of puzzles rather than a a well crafted and clever experience much like unravel that shady part of me starts as…
    That being said Shady Part of Me is a great puzzle game and its first half is all magic, its just a shame it turns to the same old puzzle platforming stuff towards the end that weve all seen a million times..
    I give Shady Part of Me
    a 7.5/10    … Full Review »
  2. wolverine_
    Jan 4, 2023
    0
    A gameplay breaking bug prevented me from playing through or progressing. Extremely frustrating as I was in the last act (ACT IV) and close toA gameplay breaking bug prevented me from playing through or progressing. Extremely frustrating as I was in the last act (ACT IV) and close to the end.
    The last time something like this have happened to me was in the 90s. This is a crap game, don't waste your money, spend it elsewhere.    … Full Review »
  3. DonyDoNya
    Dec 21, 2022
    6
    Interesting mechanics with game of lights and shadows, and changing perspective while playing as a shadow (most enjoyable gameplay somehowInteresting mechanics with game of lights and shadows, and changing perspective while playing as a shadow (most enjoyable gameplay somehow isn't in 3D!)

    Magical soundtrack, I was sometimes singing along with the tune. Good for chill.

    Cute graphics, change of locations must be noted.

    Very easy puzzles, boring for me, bot not for the dummies I guess.

    Bad storytelling, overextended because you need to play for both shadow and light girls and they speak with each other by one sentence at one puzzle section, which not only makes you run twice to the end, but also makes you bored waiting for the story to progress. The story itself kinda abstract - it consists of hints and its enough to understand the story in common, but not enough to fully uncover the situation and problems the main heroine in to, and the solution to it. Everyone would say: "Its' about facing your fears, people's judgement, yada yada...", but what it offers as the solution is just the same what every motivational speeches offer. But I had in mind that I want to argue with the narrator and tell him that fears are not that easy to fight when they are not the problem of your perception but reality.

    Someone can find the psychological solutions that game offers smart and lifechanging so try it out for yourself.    … Full Review »
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