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Shadowkin

Shadowkin

Face waves of enemies as you travel from room to room in your auto-shooting horde survival conquest. You and your companion (AI or 2 Player) must work together and create builds that compliment each other while exploring branching paths through various zones and worlds in a Roguelite setting.

Released Feb 23, 2024 Developer The Fox Knocks Platforms Windows Bullet HellRogue-liteLocal Co-OpRogue-likeAuto Battler
View on Steam ↗ $6.99 (US · as of 2026-05-16)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

70.8%positive89 reviews
Recommended · 14 found this helpful

“My AI buddy lets me feel what it's like to play a game with a friend :) Game also very good, looking forward to future updates!”

— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played
Recommended · 9 found this helpful

“Lots of build variety. Skill tree lets you augment difficulty how you want. It's like 10 bucks. Perfect amount of time for price. Perfect kind of game for couch co-op shenanigans. Remote play-together for playing with friends who don't own it. Only gripe(s) is the amount of…”

— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played
Not recommended · 33 found this helpful

“Cool concept demo. Unfinished as a game. Nothing much changed if you played the demo. Positives I mentioned it's a good concept demo, because in this game you have 2 characters have their own (in-run acquired) skill and shared items that buff those skills. Dying on 1 character…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

30achievements
6.5%median completion
0.6%rarest: No Time To Explain
59.5% of players 37.3% of players 37.3% of players 34.0% of players 18.9% of players 18.9% of players 14.8% of players 14.6% of players 12.9% of players 12.4% of players 12.1% of players 10.4% of players 9.1% of players 7.2% of players 7.1% of players 6.5% of players 5.8% of players 5.8% of players 4.1% of players 4.1% of players 3.7% of players 3.2% of players 2.7% of players 2.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.1% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 0.6% of players 59.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
59.5%The Conquest Begins — Conquer Jellywood Glade
37.3%Colorful Numbers — Critical Hit a total of 200 times.
37.3%On The Edge — Defeat any Boss while one of your characters has 10 HP or less.
Rarest badges of honor
0.6%No Time To Explain — Enter the boss arena for The Slime Queen with less than 2:00 on the timer.
0.8%What're You Doing?! — Purchase Mammon's Contract from the Shopkeeper so many times that it stops giving Coins, but purchase it again anyway.
0.9%Fast and Loose — Defeat Frost Phoenix without taking any damage from the boss fight (you are allowed to take damage leading up to this boss fight). Barrier is ignored. If you get hit while Barrier is active, this still fails the achievement.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 25, 2024
Hotfix 1.0g

- Fixed issue where "No Time To Explain" achievement would not be appropriately given.

May 12, 2024
Patch 1.0f

- Updated Simplified Chinese language to be more accurate. - Added Traditional Chinese language. - Added Japanese language. - Added Korean language.

Feb 27, 2024
Hotfix 1.0e

- Fixed issue with facing of Hoarfrost Reaver's spikes. - Fixed the Untouchable achievement sometimes being falsely acquired.

Feb 25, 2024
Hotfix 1.0d

- Fixed issue where in-game achievements would sometimes reset.

Feb 25, 2024
Patch 1.0c

Changes - Old Knight Trinket (Relic) now damages enemies in a significantly larger area and inflicts 250 damage instead of 200. - Leoki's evolution which causes projectiles to be destroyed on impact o

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Indie
Player tagsBullet Hell · Rogue-lite · Local Co-Op · Rogue-like · Auto Battler · Action Roguelike · 2D · Top-Down · Dark Fantasy · Action · Atmospheric · Co-op (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Remote Play Together
LanguagesEnglish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese
Achievements30
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 8 Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 2 GB VRAM Graphics Cards DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 100 MB available space