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Shio

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2017

Should you play it?

“Shio” is a challenging platformer game in which you deep and moving story by jumping from lantern to lantern. If you are big fan of Super Meat Boy, you will like Shio as well!

What works

  • Beautiful and unique art style with strong chinese cultural elements
  • Immersive and fitting soundtrack
  • Challenging and rewarding platforming gameplay
  • Well-designed levels with varied mechanics
  • Engaging ambiguous story with collectible lore

Things to keep in mind

  • Very high difficulty with low tolerance for error
  • Some control and input issues reported
  • Occasional bugs affecting gameplay
  • Storytelling can be too obscure and fragmented
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Shio. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Shio. These titles are not in What to play next.

Shio: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Expression.

Last update: 24/08/2026