Shadow Curios: DarkArt Puzzles

Dreamweaver Tribe

In-app purchases

About this game

Some paintings were made to be stared at for hours. Shadow Curios lets you do exactly that — one piece at a time.

Every puzzle in Shadow Curios is a genuine work of art from the public domain, hand-picked for the strangeness, and drama that make a painting worth living inside for an evening. This is a curated gallery — each image earns its place.

And it behaves like a gallery, not a game store. No ads. No pop-ups. No tracking, no analytics, nothing gathered about you at all. Just the art, the pieces, and quiet.

CURATED COLLECTIONS

Puzzles come grouped into themed collections, each built around a single dark thread:

Renaissance Classics — free to begin, the old masters at full power. Death & the Devil — mortality, judgment, and the beautifully macabre. Witches & the Occult — the esoteric, the forbidden, the strange. Art Nouveau — sinuous lines, gold, and fin-de-siècle decadence. The Mad & the Damned — visions from the far edge of reason.

New collections are always in the works, and will be appearing shortly.

MADE FOR REAL PUZZLING

Choose your piece count to match your mood — a short sitting or a long, absorbing night. A clean, uncluttered board keeps the artwork at the center, where it belongs.

HONEST, SIMPLE PRICING

Renaissance Classics is yours free. Every other collection is a single small one-time purchase ($2.99) — buy only the ones that pull at you. Or unlock the entire library, forever - including EVERY new collection added, with the Patron pass ($9.99). No subscriptions. No surprises.

The great paintings have always rewarded slow, close looking. Shadow Curios gives you that hour back — a piece at a time.

What’s new

Fix: affiliate referrer tracking (was logging "direct" on all purchases). No user-facing changes.