Shadow Man
He is coming, stalking criminals in the spirit world and the real world. A possessed man is coming, a voodoo mask in his chest and lines of power in his back. Shadow Man is coming, trailing evil from Liveside to Deadside. To stop an apocalypse. To save your soul.
Action AdventureHorrorPlatformerPuzzle
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- Released
- 1999
- Developer
- Acclaim Studios Teesside
- Platforms
- 1 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- 5 GB
What is Shadow Man?
He is coming, stalking criminals in the spirit world and the real world. A possessed man is coming, a voodoo mask in his chest and lines of power in his back. Shadow Man is coming, trailing evil from Liveside to Deadside. To stop an apocalypse. To save your soul.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 9 March 1999 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Acclaim Studios Teesside |
| Publisher | Not recorded |
| Platforms | Nintendo 64 |
| Genres | Action Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle |
| Languages | 6 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q1274056, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Shadow Man received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Full controller support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | 5 GB |
| Add-on content | None listed |
| Age gate | None |
Content descriptors
- General mature content
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Shadow Man worth it?
94% of 1,577 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $3.99 on Steam, on sale from $19.99.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Shadow Man? How long to beat it
Total play time for Shadow Man is about 22.5 hours to do everything, and around 15 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 15h | 15 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 21.1h | 16 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 22.5h | 9 |
At its current price of $3.99, beating the main story works out to about $0.27 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Where Shadow Man sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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How positions are decided
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- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Estimated sales for Shadow Man
These are estimates, not reported figures. Acclaim Studios Teesside has not published unit sales for Shadow Man, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 1,577 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $19.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Acclaim Studios Teesside publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Shadow Man price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $3.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
What readers say about Shadow Man
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 70 most recent negative Steam reviews of Shadow Man on 30 August 2026 looking for recurring complaints. Nothing came up often enough to report: no theme was mentioned by more than 3% of them. That is not a claim that the game is bug-free, only that the people who disliked it were not agreeing about why.
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Games like Shadow Man
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Common questions about Shadow Man
What platforms is Shadow Man on?
Shadow Man is available on Nintendo 64. It first released in 1999.
How much does Shadow Man cost?
$3.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Shadow Man?
94% of 1,577 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
Does Shadow Man work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Shadow Man as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.
How big is the Shadow Man download?
5 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made Shadow Man?
Shadow Man was developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside.
Is Shadow Man worth it in 2026?
94% of 1,577 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $3.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Shadow Man on sale?
Yes, right now. Shadow Man is $3.99 on Steam, down from its $19.99 list price (about 80% off), read on 30 August 2026. Prices move, so check the store.
How long does it take to beat Shadow Man?
about 15 hours for the main story, 21.1 hours with the main extras, 22.5 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.
Is Shadow Man worth the money?
At $3.99 for about 15 hours to beat the main story, Shadow Man works out to roughly $0.27 per hour. That is a value read, not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being better. Weigh it against the review sentiment above.