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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
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 yo...
Details
- Released
- December 5, 2016
- Developer
- Mimimi Games
- Publisher
- Daedalic Entertainment, Kalypso
How it plays
Time to beat · 3 player times (IGDB)
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Seemingly every year at this time I play a game that makes me wonder if it's too early to declare my GOTY. Is Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun that game this year? Yes. Yes, it is.Read More
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a real-time tactics game with stealth elements set during the Edo period of ancient Japan, time of the Shogun, Ninjas and Samurai.
An excellent and challenging update to a familiar formula, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is one of those games that makes you cheer at your well-planned success when everything goes off without a hitch, and groan at your own poor planning when it doesn’t. It gets so much right, that the relentless difficulty, and slightly less gorgeous console port can’t mar its beauty. This one snuck up on me, and I couldn’t be more glad that it did.
Read our Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun PS4 review and find out whether this PC port holds up.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is still a fantastic stealth game with characters that are fun to use, and now you can take it on the go with you.
2016’s Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is what I consider a modern classic. Mimimi Games’ hardcore take on the tactical stealth genre has always been easy for me to recommend to anyone looking for a new stealth game. The studio went on to deliver several more excellent titles, including Desperados III, the standalone expansion Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice, and later Shadow Gambit, which made Mimimi one of those developers I trusted completely when it came to this style of game. Th...
We review Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun in its latest release on Nintendo Switch 2. Is the game worth checking out?
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun has made its debut on Nintendo Switch 2 and what a debut it is because this is one excellent port.
Shadow Tactics is a gorgeous, isometric stealth game with a fun and varied cast of characters.
Without a doubt, the worst aspect of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is its camera. It doesn’t automatically move to keep your current character at its centre, requiring you to constantly move the right analogue stick to keep them in view. And to rotate the view to see around corners etc. you need to hold down the right trigger while moving the right analogue stick. There’s nothing wrong with the camera system in principle, and eventually you get more used to it, but it’s not ideal for those heat-of-the-moment situations that require swift action. It’s just too easy to get caught out by a...
There is plenty of fun to be had with Shadow Tactics but be prepared for a lot of trial and error. Playing with the standard controller setup I found to be frustrating, and nearly caused me to put the game down. On the other hand, Shadow Tactics may just be the best argument we’ve seen yet for mouse mode on Switch 2. It is transformative to the point that I almost feel like the game ought to specifically recommend it to the player on startup. Underneath all of that is an interesting, though at times inconsistent, stealth game full of unique characters and scenarios. Just be sure to have a cl…
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun first released last year on PC and was well received. Now console players can also enjoy this story of sneaking and stabbing on a feudal back drop. Developed by German based Mimimi Productions the game was awarded Best German Game, Best PC Game and Best Game Design at the 2016 German Developer Awards. What’s great is that every pixel of this game shows a love for art direction and tough but balanced gameplay. If you think you’re amazing at stealth ga...