Shadowdark is a dark fantasy tabletop role-playing game created by Kelsey Dionne and published in 2023 after raising 1.4 million dollars on kickstarter.

[3] In an interview with Rob Wieland for Forbes, Dionne explains, "There is a lot of gritty humanity to being a dungeon crawler with a sword and a torch who's only one mistake away from disaster.

Unseen monsters, fading resources, the quest for treasure and glory... we understand these struggles implicitly because they are reflections of our daily lives.

"[4] Shadowdark won four gold medals at the 2024 ENNIE Awards: Product of the Year, Best Game, Best Layout and Design, and Best Rules.

[5] Samantha Nelson for Polygon named Shadowdark as one of the best new tabletop RPG books of 2024, praising the variety of "tables for rolling up rumors, encounters, and loot, making it easy to pull together ideas for a quick adventure".