Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (2016)

Daedalic Entertainment, Kalypso, Mimimi Games

Main
25
hours
Main + Extra
30
hours
Platinum
55
hours

Skillfully hide from and sneak past the enemies fields of view, take their formations apart and hide their bodies to cover your tracks. Quick Save will enable you to execute your plans perfectly. Tactically plan actions for your whole team and execute them all at once. Make use of the vertical gameplay and jump from roof to roof to silently kill your foes from above.

About the story

In the year 1615 in Japan, a new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists in assassination, sabotage and espionage. The team must fight against the mysterious Kage-sama, who plans to overthrow the Shogun. They infiltrate castles, gather information through espionage, fight rebellions and ruthlessly eliminate Kage-sama’s allies. The group is comprised of very different personalities; working together as a team seems impossible at first. Yet over the course of many missions, trust is won and friendships are made. The characters develop their own dynamic and each member will face some kind of personal drama.

Platforms

Linux Mac PC PS4 XONE

Genres

Indie Real Time Strategy (RTS) Simulator Strategy Tactical

Themes

Action Stealth

Languages: English and 12 more

Interface Audio Subtitles
English
French
German
Spanish (Spain)
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Korean
Chinese (Simplified)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Italian
Chinese (Traditional)
Turkish

Critic Reviews

Gaming Professors

By Petr Polák

95

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a really great and difficult game, it is a challenge for tactical thinking. If you liked the game Commandos, you like real-time strategy, stealth action and you like challenges and Japan, this game is for you. It's no wonder this game is holding high ranks in all the ratings.

24 Aug, 2021
Geeks Under Grace

By Maurice Pogue

95

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a game that hits me right square in the nostalgia, almost completely disarming of my faculties as a critic. As a love letter to the fans of Commandos, it is a dream come true.

09 Nov, 2018
GameMAG

By Azzy

80

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is an exciting and well-made game of a rare genre that definitely will appeal to fans of Commandos and all fans of tactical games. If you have already played XCOM 2 and Mario + Rabbids, then definitely try this project.

26 Jan, 2018
Gaming Masters

By Florian Reich

74

A game with loads of challenges, hours of playtime and a a solid use of console controls which help to overcome lots of the usual frustrations with PC ports.

02 Oct, 2017
VGN

By Alessandro De Vita

80

With a taste for the minute detail and a remarkable sense for level design, the obscure german developer put together 13 lovely, bloody tableau vivant with a japanese setting, whose shadows house a cabal of five well assorted blades.

28 Sep, 2017

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