Shadow Cities

For the book, see Shadow Cities (book).

Shadow Cities was an early location-based mobile game, created by the Finnish company Grey Area. The game took place in a "parallel world", using the player's physical GPS location on an in-game map, battling other nearby players.^[1] The game was exclusively available for iPhone devices.

Shadow Cities
Developer(s)	Grey Area
Publisher(s)	Grey Area
Platform(s)	iPhone
Release	WW: 2010
Genre(s)	Location-based mobile game
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Development started in 2008, only a year after the first iPhone was released, with $2.5 million of venture capital funding.^[2][3] The game was initially launched on 10 November 2010 in Finland,^[2] expanding to North America and 13 European countries in 2011.^[4] However, Grey Area shut down the game on 7 October 2013.^[5]

See also

• Ingress