Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Mimimi Games · 2023 · RPG, Strategy, Character Customization, Choices Matter, Story Rich
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About Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
✦ AI summary
Lead a crew of eight undead pirates with unique supernatural powers across a cursed Caribbean archipelago to outwit the Inquisition through creative real-time stealth tactics and ability combinations. With total freedom over crew composition and mission approach, you'll orchestrate elaborate plans using possessed guards, magical cannons, and shadow magic to strike from the darkness and save your people.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a real-time stealth strategy game set in a fantastical version of the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. A place of mystery and wonder, these islands are home to pirates, vagrants, and all manner of strange folk – but the forces of the Inquisition have set their sights on these isles you call home, and will stop at nothing to eradicate your people as they seek a powerful pirate artifact buried in the region. Recruit and lead an undead pirate crew from aboard your ghost ship to outwit your enemy, striking from the shadows with both blade and sorcery to save your people.
Take charge of an infamous pirate ship and reunite its cursed crew as you fight back against the Inquisition across the multiple islands that dot the region. With eight undead crew members waiting to be revived, you can choose who to recruit to your cause, and when – there are no wrong choices, but your crew’s composition will determine how you traverse the islands, your unique experience through the narrative campaign, and what abilities you have at your disposal at any given time.
The forces of the Inquisition are numerous and well-armed, easily able to overwhelm your crew in a fair fight – make use of cover, darkness, and magic to neutralize your opponents without being seen as you traverse the many islands to accomplish your objectives.
Your ship will be your home between missions – a place where you can engage in your crew mates’ personal stories and side-quests, and perhaps more importantly, where you can make your plans to stay a step ahead of the Inquisition.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew takes a non-linear approach to storytelling – you can unlock new crew members in whatever order you please, and more islands get revealed as you make progress, each harboring multiple missions featuring different rewards beyond simple victory over your enemy.
There is no one designated path forward – missions always have multiple approaches available based on the team you’ve brought with you, but with such freedom of choice, there are many factors to consider. Will you temporarily avoid a more challenging mission to chase after a simpler one and gain more experience first? This may allow you to upgrade your crew’s abilities to more powerful versions that open up new paths. Or perhaps an entirely different, not-yet-unlocked crew member would be useful instead?
The Inquisition must be stopped at all costs – assemble your crew, learn their powers, and take the fight to the enemy, one island at a time. The fate of your world, and the lives of your comrades, is at stake.
Take charge of an infamous pirate ship and reunite its cursed crew as you fight back against the Inquisition across the multiple islands that dot the region. With eight undead crew members waiting to be revived, you can choose who to recruit to your cause, and when – there are no wrong choices, but your crew’s composition will determine how you traverse the islands, your unique experience through the narrative campaign, and what abilities you have at your disposal at any given time.
- Each of your eight shipmates is an individual armed with their own unique supernatural powers and mildly unhinged personalities – use these to your advantage in clever and creative ways to overcome obstacles and enemies. Will you bring Gaëlle and her magical cannon to launch friends over walls and chasms, or will you rely on Mr. Mercury’s ability to bypass obstacles from below? Or perhaps von Presswald can simply possess an enemy guard, use him to unlock the gates, and stand idly by as the rest of your motley crew walks in? Use these and other abilities individually and in tandem, timing their executions to orchestrate intricate maneuvers and attacks against overwhelming odds.
- Mix and match your crew's abilities to find your preferred playstyle among the countless synergies that you can deploy against the Inquisition. Each person’s skills are tailored to specific archetypes built around manipulating movement, operating behind enemy lines, hiding the bodies of dispatched enemies, or being particularly capable killers. Missions will limit how many crew members you can take with you, so choose your comrades wisely based on their abilities and limitations.
The forces of the Inquisition are numerous and well-armed, easily able to overwhelm your crew in a fair fight – make use of cover, darkness, and magic to neutralize your opponents without being seen as you traverse the many islands to accomplish your objectives.
- Missions span across entire islands in the Lost Caribbean, and not only can you choose the order in which you tackle those missions, but you’ll also have the choice of where to arrive ashore and depart once the deed is done. Will you prioritize safety, targeting less patrolled areas that may be more distant from your objectives? Or will you seek to make haste, arriving at and leaving from more heavily guarded parts of the island to be closer to your objective from start to finish?
- The various types of enemies have different strengths and weaknesses, each warranting varied strategies – what may easily distract or defeat one foe may have no effect on another adversary. From the lowly footman to the snipers hiding on high all the way to the magically linked pairs of enemies who must be killed in tandem, your foe will always seek new ways to thwart you, pushing you towards inventive new solutions.
- Keep an eye on your enemies’ movements and lines of sight as you navigate the light and shadow, and make sure no-one is watching when you make that killing blow. Your crew’s abilities can complement your surroundings, as well as open up new strategies not otherwise available. Nowhere to hide? Suledie’s magic can create cover anywhere, allowing you to get even closer for the kill, or sneak past any watchful eyes undetected. Particularly attentive guards watching a path from above? Gaëlle’s cannon can launch friends (and foes) to land onto them, knocking them out at the same time.
Your ship will be your home between missions – a place where you can engage in your crew mates’ personal stories and side-quests, and perhaps more importantly, where you can make your plans to stay a step ahead of the Inquisition.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew takes a non-linear approach to storytelling – you can unlock new crew members in whatever order you please, and more islands get revealed as you make progress, each harboring multiple missions featuring different rewards beyond simple victory over your enemy.
There is no one designated path forward – missions always have multiple approaches available based on the team you’ve brought with you, but with such freedom of choice, there are many factors to consider. Will you temporarily avoid a more challenging mission to chase after a simpler one and gain more experience first? This may allow you to upgrade your crew’s abilities to more powerful versions that open up new paths. Or perhaps an entirely different, not-yet-unlocked crew member would be useful instead?
The Inquisition must be stopped at all costs – assemble your crew, learn their powers, and take the fight to the enemy, one island at a time. The fate of your world, and the lives of your comrades, is at stake.
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What Steam players say
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Mimimi really had no business making *another* banger. 😭 My take after finishing the game: * 🎨 The art direction and overall design? Absolute peak. * 🎭 Character interactions and voice acting? Also peak. Everyone has so much personality that I ended up talking to everyone after every mission. * ⏳ The story is solid. I wouldn't call it a masterpiece but the way it plays with time is genuinely fun. Don't worry, no spoilers. Now for my only real complaint... The gameplay loop gets a little repetitive. Mission → back to the ship → talk to Marley → story progresses → another mission → back to the ship → talk to Marley... rinse and repeat. By the end I was like: **Marley:** "We need to talk." **Me:** "I KNOW, I'M ALREADY WALKING THERE." 💀 It wasn't enough to ruin the experience but I definitely felt it during the later chapters. The actual gameplay mechanics are fantastic, every character is fun to use, and experimenting with their abilities never got old. Huge kudos to the entire Mimimi team for delivering another incredible tactical stealth game. Between **Shadow Tactics**, **Desperados III**, and this, they seriously never miss. Sad to know the studio is gone, but they le…6 found this helpful
It's fun and good. There's quite a bit to do and plenty of hours of gameplay to be had. If you like Commandos, Shadow Tactics, or Desperados, you'll probably like this. That said there were a couple of annoyances I have to point out because I just find them so odd. 1. Quick saving has a long, tedious animation. I found it quite intrusive for a game like this where you need to spam save. It really hampered my enjoyment of the game. If I were giving a rating I would deduct at least a full point because of this. Just one of those, "how do you play this for 5 minutes and not realize how annoying this is?" decisions. 2. As far as I can tell, you can't assign permanent hot keys to each member. There are eight crew members, but you only get to take up to 3 on a mission. When you load out, you can assign them to hot keys 1,2,3. But that means those 3 keys will be responsible for eight different people. So sometimes 1 is Afia, sometimes it's someone else, etc. I eventually got somewhat used to it, but I would still often accidentally select the wrong character. I much preferred the Shadow Tactics system where 1 = always Hayato, 2 = always Yuki, etc.2 found this helpful
I am an older gamer so I enjoy a good story and story mode in games. This game makes you think a bit and plan your strategy. I tend to use the same group in RPG type games for the whole game. This game throws some curves to that where you need to know how to utilize all your crew. Great artwork and animation. A stealth game with supernatural pirates. What's not to like?1 found this helpful
MIMIMI 😭😭😭 和shadow tactic & desperados比起来简直全员三体人1 found this helpful
It's a decent stealth strategy game. Gets pretty repetitive pretty fast though, with very little enemy variety. Still, it was fun for the time I played it, so can recommend it on a sale if you like the genre.
Very well made.
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