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Shadow Labyrinth (2025)

Bandai Namco Studios

Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch 2 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

2.46 from 13 ratings

52 members have it in their collection · 3 playing now · 16 backlogged · 20 wish listed

Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer and a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic PAC-MAN. As The Swordsman, you wake on a mysterious planet amidst relics of wars past. To survive you will discover secrets, consume your enemies, and grow from prey to apex predator.
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Details

Developers
Bandai Namco Studios
Publishers
Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
Genres
Adventure, Platform
Themes
Action, Science fiction
Franchises
Pac-Man
Series
Pac-Man
Events
Bandai Namco Summer Showcase 2025, Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025, Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025, The Game Awards 2024
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Release dates

  • Jul 18, 2025 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

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Community All Reviews Statuses

guitarwolf5

Status guitarwolf5 Mar 8, 2026

I tried this originally when it launched but the game was in a very rough shape. Updates and months later they did tone it a bit but man, when it comes down to it, It's a BORING game. Literally have no drive or desire to re-visit this game. I gave it 4 hours today to see if its worth finishing …

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I tried this originally when it launched but the game was in a very rough shape. Updates and months later they did tone it a bit but man, when it comes down to it, It's a BORING game. Literally have no drive or desire to re-visit this game. I gave it 4 hours today to see if its worth finishing but this game just outright sucks in my honest opinion.

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Jace

Status Jace Jul 18, 2025

This is a very strange game. Indebts itself to Hollow Knight, for sure, but also games I wouldn't have expected it to draw from like Ghost Song and Astlibra... while also tonally harkening back to that late-2000s period of game development when Japanese companies were targeting Western demographics with ill-advised work like Bomberman: Act Zero or Quantum Theory …

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This is a very strange game. Indebts itself to Hollow Knight, for sure, but also games I wouldn't have expected it to draw from like Ghost Song and Astlibra... while also tonally harkening back to that late-2000s period of game development when Japanese companies were targeting Western demographics with ill-advised work like Bomberman: Act Zero or Quantum Theory or Mind Jack. Sort of feels out of place and out of time, yet also clearly modern? I don't know what to make of it.

Also, I have no idea who worked on this game besides "Bandai Namco Studios". The music is lovely, I want to know who did it! Who did the scenario writing for this insane post-apocalyptic mechatronic technobabble cosmo-horror world? It looks like I will need to finish the game to find out.

None of this should work, really. Of course, I kind of like it.

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PyramidHeadcrab

Status PyramidHeadcrab Dec 13, 2024

This one is getting a physical release, with the standard edition being $44.99CDN (probably about $30USD) and the Secret Edition being $89.99.

That price point makes the game more appealing, honestly.

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