#shadow gambit

[ozcha]

Christmas moment on the Red Marley could be…?

[ametriarch]

Recently got Shadow Gambit and been playing a lot of it. Recently revived Teresa and she's just been on my mind a lot😫❤️ so had to draw her during the aggie sesh with a friend, may polish up this doodle on clip when I can 😎

[hovkinnie]

[yeoldepyrate]

My gf told me about this game Shadow Gambit and uhhh, it looks so cool 😭 I can't wait for it to come out so I can play it

[wormdramafever]

Goodbye Volcano High among ENTERTANIUM's Top 12 Games of 2023!!

[foxweather]

saw something similar earlier and had to make my own

[first-impressions-gaming]

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

Developed & Published by Mimimi Games

Release Date 2023

Tested on PC (16 GB RAM, Ryzen 7 7735, RTX 4060)

MSRP 39,99 USD

Do game genres live and die? Do they go through a ‘renaissance’ and never see their good ol’ glorious days, ever? Well, real-time stealth strategy genre is not that ‘alive’ these days, it is sad to see and acknowledge that AAA games pump up gamers for non-stop action so much that if a player does not feel ‘entertained’ for a short span just watching the trailer, the game does not ‘appeal’ to them anymore. Shadow Gambit presents a flawless real-time stealth experience here and it will be last of its kind as it stands, since Mimimi Games announced that the studio will be shut down in December 2023, just two weeks after the release. And the studio is defunct at the time of writing this review. The industry lost a valuable team with great skills. Let this be an ode to them. Ahoy! Set your sails!

Shadow Gambit, in a nutshell, is a real-time stealth and strategy game set in alternate history in fictionalised Lost Caribbean, where we play as resurrected crew members of a magical ship named Red Marley. The first character we play as is Afia, she is a ragtag pirate whose chest is penetrated by a sword. Our goal as a crew is to steal magical artefacts and eliminate all the Inquisition members along the way in numerous islands. The game has a great pace in terms of introducing new crew members as well. Since each crew member has unique abilities and skillset, you want to make sure you are utilizing them to the max, for example some characters can swim, some of them can climb up vines. When it comes to active abilities, Afia, the starting character, can instantly teleport to a nearby location and stab an enemy, freeze an enemy temporarily. Another character is like a sharpshooter with her sniper that can take out enemies from afar, and blind enemies with smoke. The game makes sure that you get familiar with newly-unlocked character’s abilities, you are directly taken to an area where the game teaches you abilities in a tutorial. As you progress, the islands get bigger and more complex, therefore you have to strategize your approach and select your crew accordingly. 

Now, let’s meet Red Marley. She is sort of the soul of the ship, more like ‘essence of it’, she is not the owner of it. There are more souls besides her, and she acts like a captain of the ship that acts like a vessel of the ship’s identity. We get to interact with her all the time on the ship and she is the one who bestows us with a fantastic present, the ability to wind time, a subject I’ll get back to later.

If I said that each and every island felt extremely unique and the atmosphere they have are all exquisite, it would be an understatement. Not only islands themselves are unique, but they include different themes and atmospheres within them. Let’s take a look the video below where you can see this island has totally different vibes, some areas are more dark and gritty, the areas covering it are much more alive and teeming with colours objects, buildings and plants, also you get this much rocky areas and flat ones. All this world-building is so well-designed and well-thought that I am just amazed, you have so many possible crew-combo and your approach. 

You get to choose your landing spot as well, this also adds additional depth to the experience because you’re always figuring out for which spot your crew are most equipped to.

The gameplay is focused on real-time stealth and constantly considering your next move, yet you have more options, firstly, you can always freeze the game and and give commands to characters and execute them simultaneously, especially when you’re making moves with multiple characters at the same time, one character taking an enemy, another throwing a smoke bomb and stun, and the other one distracting an enemy so he does not alarm other members of the Inquisition. On top of this, Red Marley presents you the ability to rewind time, which is quick-save. Thanks to this ability, you can always quick-save the game whenever you wish to do so, and can rewind the time to any moment of that level. Since you can quick-save as much as you want, you have complete freedom to try out an approach and if you fail, just rewind time and try your luck in a different way. With this feature, the game never feels “punishing”, you know that if you cannot clear a room of enemies then you must be doing something wrong such as timing, not utilising all of your unique abilities or positioning. 

As you unlock new islands you are presented with an intro video for them which is pretty neat because you walkthrough the island in the video and can take a look at the landmarks and see the island’s size and general locations, each intro video is produced with utmost care and own narration.

Lastly, I’d like share a 5-minute long opening video, where I am trying to come up with an approach so as to how to initiate a fight right at the beginning and work my path along the way, trying to make use of character abilities as much as I can.

Shadow Gambit is a fantastic game that excels at the genre with great easy-to-understand mechanics, lively environments, and skilled voice over acting. 

[reliquiaen]

had such a fun bug in shadow gambit. was trying to possess a guy but he kept walking and entered a building so when i reached him to start the possession the game got confused and crashed

so important: don't try and possess indoors. it's an outdoor activity

[minek68]

Was this, intentional? I'v played this game, I know how it works, but that does little to change the tone of this.

[wolfleblack]

Shadow Gambit DLC launches on December 6th, will be Mimimi Games final ever release

In a year packed with amazing triple-A releases that are review well and selling like cocaine-laced cupcakes its easy to forget about the smaller but equally awesome games like Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. The real-time tactics features supernatural pirates sneaking/murdering their way through brilliantly designed level. I gave it a glowing review and strongly recommend it. Anyway, Shadow…

[tumbstoh]

[ametriarch]

The venerable Iudex🏴‍☠️💓

(Started this piece last December, glad I finally got around to finishing it)

[jetpackexhaust]

Hell yeah just unlocked Suleidy on the ghost pirate game Shadow Gambit. Before you get her the info is all "ship's doctor" and "researches plants", but when you get her it's TURBO ASSASSIN. She sprints and takes out enemies faster than anyone else and those plants she's researching? They sprout bushes which provide cover and EAT BODIES. Between her and M'Benga I'm suddenly spoiled with cliche-breaking doctors.

[fionawhim]

This is now a Shadow Gambit fan account, and I’m only halfway through the tutorial.

What if Pirates of the Caribbean but the zombies are the protagonists and some of them are hot murder ladies.

[tripleeyejosh]

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a strategy stealth game about a pirate crew on the hunt for their former captain's lost treasure. Featuring excellent and varied gameplay, blended perfectly with an engaging plot and unique cast of characters, this is a contender for GOTY.

[sonsofks]

El tráiler de Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew - Una muestra del peligro y la emoción que te esperan en la Isla Prohibida.

La isla es un cementerio de naufragios embrujados que una vez fue escenario de una batalla naval entre Blackbeard y la Tercera Flota de Hierro. Está retorcida más allá de toda razón, con innumerables barcos hundidos y el lecho marino extendiéndose más allá del mar al aire libre. Almas perdidas se mezclan aquí y el faro en ruinas se yergue en el centro de la catástrofe, congelado para siempre en…