A downloadable game for Windows

Shadecore is a first person survival game. You appear in a forest infested by zombies. You have 4 types of guns at your disposal to fend off groups of enemies.

Recently I reworked the game from ground up and added a lot of tech features, so the current state can be described as a demo. There is no objective, you score points by killing enemies and can move freely in any direction.

Three main features that I added are GPU-instanced enemy animations, infinite and persistent world:

  • Instancing allows having hundreds and thousands of enemies moving on the screen at the same time without high CPU load;
  • The game world is an infinite grid of procedurally generated regions that load and unload as you move;
  • Game data is saved dynamically and you can exit or Alt+F4 at any time and then later continue playing from the exact spot you left.

I post updates on the game and share tools for Godot regularly on bluesky.

You can support Shadecore development through the donation page.

Feedback is welcome.

Controls

EscPause
W/A/S/DMovement
Shift (Hold)Sprint
Ctrl (Hold)Crouch
SpacebarJump
1Equip weapon 1
2Equip weapon 2
3Equip weapon 3
4Equip weapon 4
Left Mouse Button (Hold)Shoot
Right Mouse Button (Hold)Aim down sights
RReload
EInventory

Keybinds can be changed in the settings.

Download

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Shadecore-1.0.1 109 MB
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Shadecore-1.0.2 134 MB
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Shadecore-1.0.3 latest 127 MB

Install instructions

Unzip the game archive.  Do not separate the contents of the game folder.

Run the file 'Shadecore.exe' to play the game.

Development log