The Shadow People

The Shadow People is a point-and-click horror adventure. During finals week, you wake exhausted, go to campus for class and drive home alone at night. After stopping for fuel, you swerve to avoid someone in the road and crash, leaving your car badly damaged on a lonely stretch of highway. With no cell phone signal, you set out on foot and reach a town where you remember only empty grassland. You explore its silent streets, looking for a way home.

Explore the town

You interact with objects and select text to perform actions. The game offers up to 10 actions, including Move. A mini-map shows adjacent rooms, and you can use it or the Move action to travel between areas. Some objects can be examined more than once to uncover additional information.

Items and endings

Some items you pick up affect the ending; items with a white border on the pause menu's item screen are the ones that can do so. The game has five endings. Two are secret endings that are unaffected by item pickups.