Shadow of the Guild

Shadow of the Guild

Guild Studio · November 10, 2022 · Beat 'em up, 2D Platformer, Action-Adventure, RPG, Story Rich

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Shadow of the Guild price

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About Shadow of the Guild

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Shadow of the Guild is a 2D side scrolling beat-em-up adventure. Use and evolve your skills through combo attacks, powerful spells and stealthy assassinations to defeat your enemies!

RPG


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3 skill trees to follow the path that suits you best: Warrior, Mage, and Assassin

Infiltration


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Specific assassination scene cuts for each enemy

Epic adventure


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Other Features:

  • Beat 'em all: Dynamic fights where you can mix your skills in epic combos
  • Items: Consumables, throwing weapons and a whole bunch of runes to give you new skills
  • Exploration: Side quests, special items, secret passages
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Shadow of the Guild is:

  • Five scripted levels with their own visual identity, enemies and beautiful cinematics
  • 6 to 7 hours of average gameplay
  • A unique visual style and a rich story

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History:


Aridia, is an parched planet where water is a scarce commodity. Where magic is omnipresent. Where the blacksmith is a pyromancer and the builder is telekinetic. The planet's kingdoms call on the services of the Merchant Guild of Rain, the most powerful organization existing to provide their people with water.

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From its Flying Fortress, the Guild sends hundreds of ships to capture clouds to sell to the kingdoms. Their mastery of the skies is complete despite the attacks carried out by the Pirate Guild.

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Aridia's Eastern Empire refuses to buy the services of the Guild, building its own fleet of ships and attempting to capture the water trade on the planet. The empire is ruled by Emperor Gethro III. Investing heavily in scientific research, Gethro III fears that his discoveries will attract greed. The emperor then decides to close his borders and starts to rule with an iron fist.

10 years later, a discovery made at the cost of immense sacrifices by the Guild of Informers reveals the emperor succeeded in creating clouds with their new technology, freeing the planet from the laws of nature and the monopoly of the Rain Merchants Guild.

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The Guild cannot remain idle and decides to send its best warrior to infiltrate the empire to discover their new inventions. This is where your story begins.

Shadow of the Guild — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Feb 26, 2023
Shadow of the Guild is a good side-scrolling beat 'em up with an RPG-like progression. As you progress in your mission, you can choose which skills to develop. You can choose from warrior, mage, or assassin paths, each targeting different skill trees. Watch a snippet of gameplay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a4fq92YF00
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Recommended Nov 26, 2022
[quote][b]Check out our [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/36364102-Horny-Hentai-Festival/]Steam curator[/url] , [url=www.youtube.com/curatorhhf/]YouTube channel[/url] and [url=twitter.com/hhfcurator]Twitter[/url]![/b][/quote] 2D platformer with dark-fantasy world. The story is thrilling and gore, and the visual is unique. Manage your skills/weapons/magics/stealth, defeat the foes and proceed. Mini-video >> https://twitter.com/hhfcurator/status/1588801299491217412
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Recommended Nov 24, 2022
I sincerely hope Guild Studio continues working on Shadow of the Guild because while its fun in its current state it does have some issues preventing it from being great. Full of promise with nifty features like assassin and ship defence missions that are unusual and a lot of fun. Shadow of the Guild is a decent 2d sidescroller that could be great but it needs a lot more love. Has some nice artwork but its best feature is its creative and unusual missions. Needs more polish. Want to know more? Check out my review here: https://www.cshpicone.com/gaming/bite-sized-game-reviews/bsr-shadow-of-the-guild For more niche curation, follow me at: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27440015-CSH-Picone/
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Recommended Jan 21, 2023
It's awesome!
2 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 2, 2022
Very good work from the team. This game is very immersive, the animations for assasination are amazing. It's also challenging and the story is interesting. I strongly recommand.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 28, 2022
So far the best game of the year! I'm loving it!
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