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UmbraPress

Drag the lantern and the shadows turn solid. Use them to crush guards against walls, bridge deadly chasms and hide from turrets, across 30 puzzles.

UmbraPress title art: two lanterns throw long purple shadows from two pillars across a dark tiled floor, where a small round explorer stands near a green portal, a wooden crate, two pink guards and bursts of pink and teal paint.

Play on Playgama Play on itch.io

About the game

UmbraPress turns shadows into solid objects. Every level is lit by a lantern you can drag, and every pillar, crate and gate throws a long black shadow that moves with the light. A shadow can do three things:

  • Crush: a shadow is solid. Sweep it into a guard who stands against a wall, and he is pressed flat.
  • Bridge: a shadow that lies across a bottomless chasm is something you can walk on.
  • Hide: stand in a shadow and the guards lose track of you. Turrets cannot hit you there, and their bullets stop in the dark.

You steer a small explorer with the keyboard or a touch stick, and move the lantern with the mouse or a finger. Stalkers wake only when you are close and in the light, plasma turrets fire whenever you are lit, and phase phantoms drift over the chasms. Later levels add a second lantern, crates you can push (they cast shadows too), floor switches that open gates, solar drones that melt shadows, and mirrors that bounce the light.

  • 30 hand-built levels in three worlds: Obsidian Sanctum, Twin Eclipse and Prism Vault
  • Up to three stars per level: for finishing, for beating the par time and for finishing without damage
  • The first three levels teach crush, bridge and hide without a single word
  • One hint per level
  • Your progress is saved

Controls

  • Move the explorer: WASD or the arrow keys.
  • Move a lantern: drag it with the mouse. Grab it, or click anywhere to pull the nearest one.
  • The buttons at the top right show a hint, restart the level, turn the sound on or off and open the level map. R restarts and M mutes from the keyboard.
  • P or Esc pauses the game, and it also pauses when the window loses focus.
  • After a win, Enter, Space or the green arrow starts the next level.
  • On mobile: drag a lantern with a finger, and touch anywhere else and drag to move the explorer. In portrait, use the stick under the arena.

Devices

Desktop and mobile. UmbraPress plays with a keyboard and a mouse or by touch, in landscape or portrait.

Who made it

UmbraPress was made with AI assistance by Atesen Software. It is free to play in the browser. The play links above open the game on Playgama and on itch.io, which are separate sites; Atesen Software is not affiliated with them.

More from us: all sixteen games. Questions or a bug to report: support@atesensoftware.com.