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ASHGAMES  [developer] Mar 6, 2020 @ 12:58am
Your feelings for the Shade
Use this thread to post what happened in your relationship with The Shade. Did you give them a name? Do you wish you could feed them? Did you do something to them that you've regretted?
Just stuff like that. No spoilers please - or if absolutely necessary format a spoiler with the spoiler tags like here
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Anselm Pyta  [developer] Mar 8, 2020 @ 7:04am 
Originally posted by 回酱:
I would love to have a warehouse function or something like that, because I just wanna know what I have, like the number of my coal,my book, my mushroom, my furniture. For example, the shade can record what it gets everyday in its brochure or dairy book. _(:з」∠)_

Mmm good idea.
40 EUR Mar 8, 2020 @ 12:45pm 
I was just thinking that it would be great to be able to rename him/her/it today. But maybe this will be possible later in the game?!? Definitely will call him The Real Slim Shady just for the kicks > <
dejadrew Mar 8, 2020 @ 9:19pm 
Mentally trying out the pet name Smidgen as a term of endearment (word means a tiny bit of something, sounds slightly phonetically similar to smudge, it seems to fit.)

Most of the time, though, I just call them Kid or Kiddo. Not entirely sure why. But I tend to tab out or pop into steam chat when I'm sending them on a long walk, and every so often I pop in to see where they're at and I usually say something along the lines of "YOU GO, KID, YOU CLIMB THOSE STAIRS. KEEP IT UP, KIDDO" and then I tab back over to YouTube.
Stark Mar 8, 2020 @ 11:45pm 
Well,I really love him. I feel no longer lonely when being with him. I haven't given him a name...But it's a good idea! Will return to the answer when he is named.
雁渡 Mar 9, 2020 @ 1:27am 
I feel like we could empathize with each other.

I am playing this game at a stressful time (have been eyeing it before release for quite a while lol), and it's been a somewhat meditative experience. You might even say I envy the Shade a little.
Jay.Dee Mar 9, 2020 @ 8:08am 
Is there any chance that you guys are Robin and Maarten's friends? I can sense some deeps connections between your creations, It's shocking
I just call him Wee Man (as in little man) and I do adore him. :)
Papa November Mar 9, 2020 @ 4:10pm 
I just got most of the stuff you can find in my home and it's all nice and minor spoiler little dude smiles all the time when he is home now. I love him.
Lily Mar 9, 2020 @ 8:00pm 
I love this little guy. When I'm talking with my boyfriend about the game, I call Shade "mein kleines Kohlemännchen" (my little coal guy). The game is nearly running all the time, because I don't want Shade to feel alone. I tried to make his home really comfortable and it warms my heart, when I see his little smile.

Somehow he reminds me of myself while I was very depressed months ago. Maybe that's the reason, why I keep the game always open. Even if you feel lost and blind in the dark, there is always someone thinking of you. :winter2019happyyul:
Pharqwad Mar 9, 2020 @ 8:52pm 
Originally posted by Simi:
I love this little guy. When I'm talking with my boyfriend about the game, I call Shade "mein kleines Kohlemännchen" (my little coal guy). The game is nearly running all the time, because I don't want Shade to feel alone. I tried to make his home really comfortable and it warms my heart, when I see his little smile.

Somehow he reminds me of myself while I was very depressed months ago. Maybe that's the reason, why I keep the game always open. Even if you feel lost and blind in the dark, there is always someone thinking of you. :winter2019happyyul:
This made me smile :D
PawesomeCat Mar 10, 2020 @ 3:23am 
I love the little shade and I've gotten very attached to him!

Which is why it really hurt when I made the mistake to get impatient close to the exit of the caves... Don't trust the childish eyes of the young. Always trust faces in the wall and do as they say.
Last edited by PawesomeCat; Mar 10, 2020 @ 3:24am
Torgo Mar 10, 2020 @ 6:23am 
I love him. I feel that he's a lot like me. He's an inspiration. :)
Phillip Jefferies Mar 10, 2020 @ 11:45am 
I call him Wallace
Blue Candle Mar 10, 2020 @ 6:51pm 
A Shade. That is what it is called because it doesn't even know what it is. The Shade reminds me a bit of myself and his taste in art matches closely to mine as well as I do spend some time to admire it. I like to be alone sometimes and I think at times the Shade likes to be alone also only because it is the only thing it knows. I am also searching for something, but I don't know for what. I also keep running into walls even though I know, just for the small chance that there is something, then I add that to my mental list of disappointments.

I am both happy and a little saddened that I can relate to the Shade so well. I am also learning something from it, to take things a little slower and not to rush things all the time. I also call the Shade it because of this theory of mine the shade is a creature of shadows, that is why it can never see daylight. Everything has its place in the world. . Shade, you are my new friend and I don't give that title out lightly.
kimbercoaster Mar 10, 2020 @ 9:26pm 
This game demonstrates the human capacity for empathy because he is just a video game character, but he is my little guy and I love him! I don't want anything bad to happen to him... :( I'm honestly getting kind of anxious because I don't feel like I have enough information to know what is the right end choice for him.
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