Shadows and Dust

Critic reviews

• HHookedGamers

  Quinn Levandoski · Mar 13, 2020

  3.0

  I really wanted to like Shadows and Dust, but I didn’t. While I find it noble to bring attention to mental illness and attempt to help the audience sympathize with the difficulties and frustrations that many people suffer, it doesn’t come together in a way that I found entertaining, moving, or particularly interesting. With such a short run time (and the game being free-to-play) it might be worth jumping in and checking for yourself, but, for me, the experience just didn’t click.

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• OSOnly Single Player

  Amy Davidson · Sep 27, 2019

  8.0

  Shadows and Dust is not a fun game to play. The title takes a long, hard look at mental illness in an unnervingly realistic way and is a challenging topic at the best of times. However, the show of empathy and understanding to sufferers of the condition is expressed beautifully, a depiction that shows exactly what standing on that precipice feels like. Paired with the excellent visual and aural design, this horror of the real world will be difficult to forget.

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