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7 Games Like Shadow Puppeteer

In Shadow Puppeteer one player controls a shadow and the other player controls the main character. Their task is to help each other progress through a series of platform levels to recover stolen shadows from their hometown.

Unfortunately Shadow Puppeteer is not available on Android, Mac, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

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Shadow Puppeteer
PEGI Rating 7+ for Shadow PuppeteerESRB Rating TEEN for Shadow Puppeteer

Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN

Release Date: 29/09/2014, updated in 2016

Platforms: Nintendo Wii U and PC.

Genres: Adventure and Platform.

 

 
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The Pedestrian

The Pedestrian

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Platform and Puzzle

Duration: Between 3 hours and 4 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Free-to-start.

The Pedestrian is a puzzle game where you control a stick man navigating a series of road signs around a virtual city. It sounds a little odd and quite simple, but by layering its interconnected sign-based puzzles it creates an experience that is both...


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A Fold Apart
PEGI Rating 3+ for A Fold ApartESRB Rating EVERYONE for A Fold Apart

A Fold Apart

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS Apple Arcade

Genres: Platform

Duration: Between 4 hours and 5 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

A puzzle game that explores the emotional rollercoaster of a long-distance relationship — in a world of folding paper. After career choices force them along separate paths, a Teacher and Architect vow to make their long-distance relationship work at...


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Fru
PEGI Rating 3+ for FruESRB Rating EVERYONE for Fru

Fru

Platforms: Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Physically Active and Platform

Duration: Between 3 hours and 4 hours to complete.

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.

Costs: Purchase cost.

This is a platform game with a twist. One player uses a controller to run and jump around the level; a second player stands in front of the Xbox Kinect camera and appears on the screen in silhouette. This person must use the outline of their body to...


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Degrees of Separation
PEGI Rating 3+ for Degrees of SeparationESRB Rating EVERYONE for Degrees of Separation

Degrees of Separation

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Duration: Between 7 hours and 10 hours to complete.

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Degrees of Separation is a running and jumping game where you control two characters from different seasons, Ember and Rime. Each has different abilities to change the environment and help you to progress: freezing water, melting ice and the like.


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A Dark Room
PEGI Rating 7+ for A Dark RoomESRB Rating EVERYONE 10+ for A Dark Room

A Dark Room

Platforms: Nintendo Switch and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Open World, Strategy and Turn-Based

Duration: Between 4 hours and 5 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

A Dark Room is an adventure where you try and survive in the wild. It has a similarly simple start – a single option to stoke a fire – but also evolves into an incrementally complex system of resource management as a larger story unfolds.


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Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons
PEGI Rating 16+ for Brothers A Tale Of Two SonsESRB Rating TEEN for Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons

Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons

Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle

Duration: Between 4 hours and 5 hours to complete.

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is an action-adventure game where you control two brothers at the same time with a single controller. After their mother passes away, they must find some water from the Tree of Life to save their father. The controls weave...


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Limbo
PEGI Rating 16+ for LimboESRB Rating TEEN for Limbo

Limbo

Platforms: Android, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Duration: Between 4 hours and 8 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age-rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is not without reason. Rather than violent...


 
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Shadow Puppeteer is in This List

In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Shadow Puppeteer in the following list:

Work Together to Thrive

Play is more fun when it’s shared. This is as true about video games as it is when building a massive sandcastle on the beach or playing hopscotch in the playground. Finding brilliant team games is a great way to involve more people in the fun and share the experience together as a family. More experienced players naturally help novices contribute to the team.
Along with teamwork, the games I’ve selected here use the fact that players are all sitting next to each other.

These are games where players take on different roles in order to complete unusual tasks. The fun is often as much about the conversations (and arguments) that happen in the room as what’s happening on the screen.
 
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Phasmophobia
PEGI Rating 12+ for PhasmophobiaESRB Rating TEEN for Phasmophobia
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A Hat in Time
PEGI Rating 7+ for A Hat in TimeESRB Rating TEEN for A Hat in Time
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Unrailed
PEGI Rating 3+ for UnrailedESRB Rating EVERYONE for Unrailed
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Bake 'n Switch

PEGI Rating 3+ for Bake n SwitchESRB Rating EVERYONE for Bake n Switch
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