Shadow Touched

Shadow Touched

Tsadriu · 2024 · 2D Platformer, Adventure, Platformer, 2D, Cute

PC
9 user reviews89% · 9
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About Shadow Touched

EARLY ACCESS


This game is currently in its early access phase, indicating that certain elements may undergo changes or removal. The game will get updates, although not on a regular schedule.

Description


Embark on a platforming journey with Shadow Touched, a 2D platformer created from my long programming apprenticeship journey. This project, developed in almost two months, has evolved beyond its academic roots into a passion project that I am committed to expanding over time.

Key Features:
  • Unique Dimensional Gameplay: Take control of Twilight, the main character, and master the art of dimension-hopping. In the normal form, Twilight has a single jump, a dash, and a basic attack pattern. Switch to the shadow dimension for increased movement speed, higher jump height, an additional jump, and three powerful attack patterns with enhanced damage. Choose your form wisely to navigate the intricate levels and overcome challenges.
  • Strategic Platforming: Traverse diverse and meticulously designed levels that will test your platforming skills.
  • Formidable Foes: Encounter the formidable Knight, your primary adversary in the shadowy realms. Stay on your guard as these enemies will strike if you get too close. Use your dimensional powers to defeat them quickly!
  • Checkpoint System: Shadow Touched features a checkpoint system. If Twilight meets her end, she respawns at the last checkpoint touched and you can continue your adventure without losing progress. Do not let your lives reach zero though!
  • Power-ups: Shadow Touched features power-ups that enhance the player's gameplay.
  • Double jump: Allows Twilight to jump an additional time.
  • Light Shard: Grants a 1-up.
  • Darkness Dispersal: Removes a percentage of darkness. The higher the current darkness, the more it removes.
  • Jump Impulse: Shoots Twilight vertically.
  • Speed Boost: Grants increased movement speed for a short duration.
  • Dashify: Allows Twilight to dash an additional time (has no effect in shadow form).

Note: Shadow Touched is an ongoing project, and I am committed to expanding and enhancing the game based on player feedback and evolving ideas. Join me on this journey as we shape the destiny of Twilight and explore the boundless possibilities of the shadow dimension.

Controls

  • Move with WASD or Arrow keys.
  • Jump with Space.
  • Interrupt jumps with S or down arrow key. Holding the button will make the character drop down faster.
  • Attack with C or Left mouse button.
  • Shift between dimensions with F.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Aug 20, 2024
10 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 26, 2025
"Shadow Touched" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This abandoned Early Access platformer offers nothing new, there's only one notable gimmick which is the phase shifting thing, that many other platformers have done better. It's easy to see why this failed. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. The developers abandoned this 1 year and 5 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's pos…
2 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 23, 2024
too hard bc i suck nice art and music play this if you bored
2 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 27, 2025
Could be better, i guess it's a okay game. It would be cool if it had more things to do ( a small and simple storyline, rather than a simple ''go there'')
1 found this helpful

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