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Planet in the Shadows

Inspired by the dungeon crawler genre, this short game blends traditional spelunking with base building mechanics. The player is stranded on a hostile planet, urged to build a base and defend it against the…

15 April 2016

Planet in the Shadows is an adventure, released 15 April 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Planet in the Shadows is

Planet in the Shadows was released in 2016. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Inspired by the dungeon crawler genre, this short game blends traditional spelunking with base building mechanics. The player is stranded on a hostile planet, urged to build a base and defend it against the awfully aggressive forces of the hostile environment.
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How it plays

Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Planet in the Shadows launched on 15 April 2016, within three weeks of Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together and Quantum Break.

Released around the same time: Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together, Quantum Break.

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When did Planet in the Shadows come out?
Planet in the Shadows was released on 15 April 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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