White Shadows

White Shadows has some of the best artwork and sound design I've seen in a simple side-scroller. The gameplay is standard and simple, but also fun, and the dystopian themes are rich and suggestive. It's short and simple, but gorgeous and worth a play through.

I just finished this game after playing for about 2 hours, a short and fairly basic platformer with some light puzzle challenges that few players would find difficult. The focus in White Shadows isn't the gameplay however but the setting: a dystopian society very obviously inspired by Orwells "Animal Farm" where birds are persecuted and treated horribly. You play as one of these birds who seeks to escape the torment of the pigs and other animals. White Shadows definitely has its charm and the ambiance is great but the plot doesn't exactly blow you away and the themes of xenophobia and oppression just feels shallow after a while. The game is obviously 'inspired' by Limbo which is not a bad thing but with so little to offer in the form of gameplay, it needs a more captivating story to compensate.

It's dark, pretty, strange and lhas a phantastic landscape Gameplay is a little 2D-Jump&Run with a few switches and small riddles here and there. Even though this basics are quite similar to "Limbo" or "Inside", the Gameplay is not interesting enough. And the story is just weird and doesn't make much sense.

As it is said in the title : a dystopian game about animal life. The game is very dark in its themes. It is a platformer game with minigames. It is worth playing but nightmarish as I haven't ever met in games and movies. Not for children.