Shade Step app icon: a smiling snowman with a top hat on a grassy island
Shade Step
Puzzle · iPhone

The sun never stops. Stay in the shade.

A pocket puzzle about shadows. Every step you take, the sun turns one notch and every shadow on the island swings with it. Guide a snowman from shade to shade and reach the igloo before he melts.

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Title screen: the Shade Step logo above a grassy island with hedges, a snowman and an igloo
Every level is an island under a turning sun
Gameplay: a snowman in the shade of a hedge, blue arrows on the safe squares and red arrows on the squares that will be sunlit
Blue arrows stay shady after the sun turns, red ones will not
Candy world: pink island, mint hedges and a lavender sky in chapter 2
Four worlds, one simple rule

One rule, eight suns, five hundred puzzles.

The sun turns with you

Each move, including standing still, turns the sun one notch around the island. A hedge shades one square, a wall two, a tower three, always on the far side from the sun.

Finish every turn in the shade

End a move in the sun and the snowman melts. Pick up a parasol and he can take three sunny steps. Reach the igloo and he is home safe.

500 levels, 20 chapters

Every level is built and checked by a solver: there is always a way through, the sun always matters, and a greedy walk always fails. Boards grow from 4x6 to 6x11.

Learn by playing

The first levels teach the rule on the board itself, one speech bubble at a time. No manual, no wall of text.

Undo is free, always

Sunlit squares glow red before you step on them, and any move can be taken back. Stuck? A hint shows the next safe step.

Plays anywhere

Works offline. Sign in to Game Center and your progress, coins and themes follow you to a new phone.