Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows
Fair Weather Studios · 2018 · Strategy, Turn-Based Tactics, Turn-Based, Turn-Based Strategy, Space
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About Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows
A new chapter in the world of Ancient Frontier!
Steel Shadows is a standalone RPG set in the epic universe of Ancient Frontier. You do NOT need to own or have played Ancient Frontier to enjoy this content. Take command of a rag tag band of pirates and outlaws as you fight your way across the Frontier for treasure and glory. Delve into our latest turn based tactical RPG.
You play as Rogan Harker, a recently freed convict. He travels to the Frontier to find old friends and start a new life. But the overpowering Federation still controls most of the Frontier, and the new and budding Alliance is no fan of outlaws. Hated and feared, the pirate life is one of constant danger. Friends and allies are hard to find and harder still to keep. Beset on all sides can Rogan find fame and fortune with his fledgling pirate fleet?
Steel Shadows is a standalone RPG set in the epic universe of Ancient Frontier. You do NOT need to own or have played Ancient Frontier to enjoy this content. Take command of a rag tag band of pirates and outlaws as you fight your way across the Frontier for treasure and glory. Delve into our latest turn based tactical RPG.
You play as Rogan Harker, a recently freed convict. He travels to the Frontier to find old friends and start a new life. But the overpowering Federation still controls most of the Frontier, and the new and budding Alliance is no fan of outlaws. Hated and feared, the pirate life is one of constant danger. Friends and allies are hard to find and harder still to keep. Beset on all sides can Rogan find fame and fortune with his fledgling pirate fleet?
- A full campaign with over 20 story missions
- Over 50 procedurally generated side missions
- Dynamic initiative-based turn-based combat
- Purchase, outfit and control the unique Pirate faction ships
- Hire and assign crew members that gain experience and power along with your ships
- Hidden unique mercenaries and ships to add to your fleet
- Experience over 50 random events
- Customize your play style by unlocking technologies in an extensive Tech Tree
- Large, detailed space maps to fight across
- Three different strategic resources to manage
- Dozens of different weapon systems and abilities to control
- Includes both free DLCs; Ancient Frontier - The Crew and Ancient Frontier - Quests and Events
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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A nice little turn based hex-grid strategy game. Set in space, there's a nice choice of ships across 3 classes (Fighters, Escorts and Capital) each affecting the effectiveness of weapon types and abilities. But i will note that the later battles can drag a little once the enemy ship numbers go up as others have said. Deployment costs Energy (one of the 3 resources - metal (for repairing and the main cost of new ships and Data for Research). You can also buy and equip crew and items on each ship to add to specialisation. Theres plenty to tinker away with - but you will in the end find you have a core group that you can deploy regularly and a group of spare ships you only throw in for certain story missions for the added firepower. The story is a pretty cheese and ham pirate story but its good enough to keep the flow between battles. I get the feeling there was either more campaigns planned that didn't make it (the saves even specify your playing the pirate campaign - but there isnt anything else) It isnt the greatest game, its not the prettiest game - but its a nice little gem to grab in a sale to while away a few turned based hours whilst your doing/watching something e…2 found this helpful
Do you like space? Because this game is in space, turn-based battles, in space, command a fleet, in space, experience stories about space, in space, see spaceships in space, and space...in space https://youtu.be/rDYRdjhKcpc2 found this helpful
As good as Ancient Frontier but is half (1/2) the game as there is only 1 faction. Pirates play and feel a lot like the Alliance, very limited new musics (3-4), good game, but it should of been a DLC to Ancient Frontier (that has Alliance, Federation and this should of been a DLC to add a third faction, the Pirates). Final Rating 6/10 a good faction, but would of been 10/10 if this was a DLC Recommanded ONLY ON SALE as this is a DLC worth of content.
i love it wish there was more ancient frontier games
Strategy game to the max! Fun space turn based gameplay! Fun if you like strategy and micromanaging. https://youtu.be/5K3Ao6IFMzk
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