A decent third-person stealth game. You can choose to kill guards or sneak by leaving them unharmed. The main gimmick with Shadwen is that you need to escort a young girl to the end of each level, manipulating (or killing) guards so they don't see her. It's interesting but her AI is annoying at times, leading to frustration. You also have an overpowered time-manipulation power that lets you reverse time without limits. It's extremely useful when you screw up and want to try again without starting from the beginning of the level. Level design is good, allowing some freedom in the more open outdoors levels and being claustrophobic in the later indoors sections. There are gadgets that you can craft but I mostly ignored them.

I'd definitely recommend it and I hope the developers (who also made Trine) continue with more games like this in the future.