Ereban: Shadow Legacy gives you a shadow and asks you to trust it. Baby Robot Games’ 2024 stealth platformer casts you as Ayana, the last descendant of a forgotten race, and hands her a set of mystical shadow powers, high-tech gadgets, and a dying universe that does not care whether she lives. It came out two years ago on Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PlayStation 5, and it holds a 7.4 out of 10 — a score that fits a game with a clear idea and an uneven grip on it.
Trailer, via Baby Robot Games.
Ayana, the Last of a Forgotten Race
The setup is spare and effective. Ayana is alone. Her people are gone. What remains is a third-person stealth platformer built around avoiding or killing, in that order of preference. The game wants you to move through hostile space, not through it loudly, and the shadow powers exist to make that possible.
Baby Robot Games is credited as both developer and publisher, which matters here. This is a self-published indie with a specific genre thesis — fast-paced stealth — and no committee smoothing the edges off it. The themes are action, science fiction, and stealth, and the game takes all three seriously enough to build its whole loop around them.
Harness mystical shadow powers, high-tech gadgets and avoid or kill to uncover the truth about your past and the key to saving a dying, morally grey universe.
That is the pitch, and it is also the design brief. The shadow is not decoration. It is the verb.
Shadow Powers and High-Tech Gadgets
The mechanics split cleanly into two halves. The first is mystical: shadow powers that let Ayana move and hide in ways a normal body cannot. The second is technological: gadgets that give her options when the shadow is not enough. Together they define a platformer that rewards patience over aggression, even though it lets you kill.
The “avoid or kill” phrasing is doing real work. Ereban: Shadow Legacy is not a pure pacifist stealth game, and it is not a pure action game. It sits in the middle and lets the player decide how much blood the run costs. That flexibility is the most interesting thing the game does. It also means the game’s difficulty is partly yours to set, which is either a strength or a cop-out depending on how you play.
A Dying, Morally Grey Universe
The setting is a universe in decline, and the game is explicit that it is morally grey. Ayana’s goal is twofold: uncover the truth about her past and find the key to saving a world that may not deserve saving. The two goals are tangled on purpose. What will your legacy be, the game asks, and it does not answer for you.
That ambiguity is the right call for this kind of story. A cleaner hero would have flattened the stealth. A universe with a clear villain would have made the “avoid or kill” choice trivial. Ereban: Shadow Legacy keeps both questions open, and the game is better for refusing to close them.
What the Platforms Give You
The game is available on three platforms, and the list is short and current:
- Xbox Series X|S
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- PlayStation 5
It is single player, third person, and it does not pretend to be anything else. There is no multiplayer mode bolted on and no reason to keep you logged in after the credits. A 2024 indie stealth platformer that ships single-player is a specific kind of product, and Baby Robot Games made it deliberately.
Where the Stealth Slips
The genre label is “fast-paced stealth platformer,” and that phrase contains a tension the game does not fully solve. Fast-paced stealth is hard. Stealth wants you to slow down, watch, and wait. Platforming wants you to move, chain, and commit. When both are running at once, the game has to decide which one wins, and Ereban: Shadow Legacy does not always decide cleanly.
The shadow powers are the strongest argument the game makes. When they are working, the movement feels like a conversation between Ayana and the level. When the gadgets have to carry a section instead, the game gets more conventional. The high-tech half is competent. The mystical half is where the identity lives.
The 7.4 Verdict
7.4 out of 10 is the right neighborhood. Ereban: Shadow Legacy is not a breakthrough, and it is not a misfire. It is a focused indie with a real point of view about stealth, a protagonist worth following, and a world that earns its grey. The shadow powers are the reason to play. The gadgets are the reason some sections drag.
What matters most here is that Baby Robot Games built the game it described. Ayana is the last of a forgotten race, the universe is dying, and the game lets you decide what her legacy costs. That is a coherent piece of work from a small studio, and the score reflects a game that is better at its idea than at its execution. 7.4 of 10.
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