Fit check
Is Shade Silver worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want a large level count with secret and hidden areas
- Action-adventure fans who enjoy shooting enemies alongside puzzles and traps
- Players interested in collecting keys, treasure, hearts, and pearls to open progress paths
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly focused adventure rather than many level categories and collectibles
- Players who prefer combat without puzzles, traps, secret hunting, or boss battles
- Players looking for a multiplayer game rather than a solo dungeon-crawling journey
Our take on Shade Silver
The page presents the game as finished while also saying development will continue with updates. That leaves the product's status less definite than the extensive level, secret, enemy, and ending counts suggest.
What is Shade Silver?
Shade Silver is a dungeon-crawling action game about guiding a wizard through dangerous levels while collecting keys, treasure, hearts, and pearls.
Keys open treasure and allow progress by paying ogres, while 40 pearls unlock additional areas. The game includes 81 levels across tutorial, main, boss, secret, and hidden sections, plus 75 secrets, puzzles, traps, and more than 50 enemy types. Combat includes shooting enemies and facing four bosses. Three endings, 20 achievements, randomly selected music from around 100 songs, score and point systems, and visual settings are also included. The game uses a glow-in-the-dark presentation with glow stones placed throughout its environments. It is sold as finished, while continued work and updates are also planned.
How Shade Silver plays
- 01Multi-Part Level Structure
- The 81 levels include tutorial, main, boss, secret, and hidden sections.
- 02Pearl-Gated Areas
- Collecting 40 pearls opens additional levels.
- 03Enemy-Focused Combat
- The game includes more than 50 enemy types and four boss encounters.
- 04Secret Discovery
- There are 75 secrets to locate across the adventure.
- 05Multiple Endings
- Three different ending screens provide distinct conclusions.
- 06Randomized Music
- Around 100 songs can play in varying order during the game.
Shade Silver compared to similar games
Shade Silver centers on an 81-level dungeon crawl with keys, treasure, pearls, secrets, puzzles, traps, shooting, and boss fights. Sundered: Eldritch Edition is described instead as a chaotic metroidvania, while Jusant focuses on climbing, stamina management, exploration, and secrets. Shade Silver therefore emphasizes level-based combat and collection systems rather than climbing or metroidvania exploration.
Shade Silver: platforms & release
Is Shade Silver worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want a large level count with secret and hidden areas. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly focused adventure rather than many level categories and collectibles.
Where can I download Shade Silver?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Shade Silver's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Shade Silver on?
Windows only.
