Shadows Behind the Throne 2
Bobby Two Hands · 2021 · Strategy, Lovecraftian, Grand Strategy, God Game, Horror
PC
Mostly Positive77% · 47
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About Shadows Behind the Throne 2
Shadows Behind the Throne is a game which places you in the role of an Ancient Evil in a fantasy world. The world is a living breathing system, with nobles constantly bickering and playing politics amongst each other, and nations rising and falling. Initially they are unaware of your presence, allowing you to slip in, with both agents and world-changing powers, and use their politics against them.
The game has multiple interconnected systems. You can play within the political sphere, working to get your enthralled noble to the top of the aristocracy, while at the same time moving agents between the cities of that nation, escaping from hostile agents and spreading madness and shadow wherever they can, while also building up a secret army of Deep Ones beneath the waves, waiting for the time to strike.
Ultimately, you aim to destroy the entire world, or bring it under your shadow. Wide ranges of strategies exist and can be combined to bring about the apocalypse of your choosing. End all life by freezing the world slowly; raise up a dark empire of shadow under your rule; consume all flesh into an Unholy Flesh or, in classic Lovecraftian style, turn a chosen few into fishlike Deep Ones, and the rest into fish food.
The game's mechanics revolve around the NPCs' suspicions, fears and knowledge. Manipulate these to your advantage, by preying on their fears and being elected as their `saviour' from a threat you created; get your opponent agents exiled by placing false evidence; start pointless civil wars over economic issues in order to weaken their armies and allow you to fight them piecemeal...
Shadows is a hobbyist game, developed part time over the past few years, going through various changes and approaches, building on community feedback and gained experience through simply trying various things and seeing what plays well. If you enjoy political intrigue, grand strategy games such as Crusader Kings, turn-based strategy and/or collecting bodies on a cart to raise an army of the dead, this game may be worth a look at.
Check out the associated Youtube channel (link in the Steam sidebar) for a few playthroughs of some of the releases, to get an idea of how the game can be played.
The game has multiple interconnected systems. You can play within the political sphere, working to get your enthralled noble to the top of the aristocracy, while at the same time moving agents between the cities of that nation, escaping from hostile agents and spreading madness and shadow wherever they can, while also building up a secret army of Deep Ones beneath the waves, waiting for the time to strike.
Ultimately, you aim to destroy the entire world, or bring it under your shadow. Wide ranges of strategies exist and can be combined to bring about the apocalypse of your choosing. End all life by freezing the world slowly; raise up a dark empire of shadow under your rule; consume all flesh into an Unholy Flesh or, in classic Lovecraftian style, turn a chosen few into fishlike Deep Ones, and the rest into fish food.
The game's mechanics revolve around the NPCs' suspicions, fears and knowledge. Manipulate these to your advantage, by preying on their fears and being elected as their `saviour' from a threat you created; get your opponent agents exiled by placing false evidence; start pointless civil wars over economic issues in order to weaken their armies and allow you to fight them piecemeal...
Shadows is a hobbyist game, developed part time over the past few years, going through various changes and approaches, building on community feedback and gained experience through simply trying various things and seeing what plays well. If you enjoy political intrigue, grand strategy games such as Crusader Kings, turn-based strategy and/or collecting bodies on a cart to raise an army of the dead, this game may be worth a look at.
Check out the associated Youtube channel (link in the Steam sidebar) for a few playthroughs of some of the releases, to get an idea of how the game can be played.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Upvoted because I liked it, but the game is obsolete now, you should get Shadows of Forbidden Gods instead.1 found this helpful
Honestly, this game has a LOT of promise. It has a lot that it can show with a very nice premise and a pretty good theme. If you want this game, you'll likely want it until you've spent 8 dollars on it regardless of what I say. Here's a list of cons regardless. - The popups never stop. While these might be relevant at first, after the 80th time one of my agents has begun to get hunted by a paladin, I don't care to know about it happening. Just let that agent die. None of them are that important. - Depending on your gamestyle, this game can become a SLOG on certain map layouts. You wanted to play with Deep Ones? Well, welcome to a map with all of ONE coastal city. You wanted to freeze the world with the Winter's Scythe? Well, welcome to the world's literal most stable mega-empire. You can do some things to get around this sometimes, somehow, but not always. You'll almost always go back to playing the game in the same few ways, which is to say... - The generic agents you can pick up are BUSTED. 1 Vampire is the exception here it sucks. 2 The seeker is a literal game winner who can just walk around and corrupt the world in record time. The limit of them potentially gett…
Good game but bugs way too often. If an error pops up that save is doomed forever.
I don't know anything about the drama surrounding this game's development, but whatever it loses from still being in development the core mechanics and premise are really fun. It's fun being an evil overlord of different kinds. The UI and politics are a little janky but it's worth picking up if you can get it on sale. 7/10 Would be willing to do another Dagon/White Walker Run again.
Too complicated to figure out how to do anything.
Interesting concept for a game but the UI is just horrible. To top it off the Developer gave up mid way through then released a copy of the game for free on itch.io without the crappy pics. If you really want to try the game just download that version since you won't be losing and real game play without those pics.
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