Shining in the Darkness is a 1991 dungeon crawler role-playing video game for the Mega Drive/Genesis console, later re-released for the Wii Virtual Console. The game also appears in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was the first game in the Shining Series, although chronologically it happens after the events of every Shining game prior to Shining the Holy Ark.