A Shadow
Until Noon

The platforms are shadows, and you move the light. A wordless puzzle-platformer about following someone up a colossal sundial, from midnight to noon.

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The demo runs in your browser: three levels, no download, no account.

The game

Light from behind builds the ground under your feet

You are a shadow that has come loose. Each night a keeper climbs a colossal structure, lighting its lamps, and tonight you were left behind in the dark.

Drag a light and the shadow it throws through the haze becomes a surface you can stand on. Lower the lamp and the shadow rises like a lift. Hang a slab closer to the light and its shadow grows, and moves faster. Light from behind builds the ground under your feet. Light from the front erases you.

Follow the keeper from the foundations at midnight, up through the machinery of the small hours, out over a sleeping city before dawn, across the ice at first light, to the summit at noon, when every shadow in the world, including you, shrinks to almost nothing.

  • 25 levels across five acts, from tungsten lamps to mirrors to the real sun
  • Puzzles you solve by looking: two lights, one bridge; a shadow that is also a key
  • Made for a phone held upright: one thumb walks, the other moves the light. Keyboard, mouse and game controllers on a computer
  • A synthesised score that follows where you are
  • No text, no tutorials, no ads, no in-app purchases, no account. Plays offline
  • Every texture, structure and note is generated in code: the game ships with no art or audio files

One night, five acts

From the foundations to the summit

A tiny silhouette on a shadow bridge under a tungsten lamp, between colossal concrete arches
Midnight · The FoundationsSlide a lamp, and its shadow becomes a bridge.
Two lamps and a heap of shadow rungs at the foot of a wall
Midnight · AccordionTwo lamps, one ladder: neither can be set without the other in mind.
A great opening in a machine hall looking out over a city at night
The small hours · The WorksMachinery that moves without you, and the first sight of outside.
Twin beacon towers against a huge planet, city lights far below
Before dawn · The OverlookMirrored lights, searchlights that erase you, a city asleep below.
Grey daylight over an ice shelf, masts leading away from a vast flank of stone
Dawn · The ShelfThe sun replaces the lamps: you steer the mirrors that throw it.
Long blue shadows of a giant sundial blade across white stone and ice
Late morning · The GnomonThe real sun moves on its own. You can only move what casts.

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Play the first three levels now

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