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Dancing in the dark.

UPDATE: As you're getting immersed in the art of silent killing, it's sometimes easy to miss the art that went into creating the beauty around you. Not anymore: Get the <span class="bold">Soundtrack</span> and <span class="bold">Artbook + Strategy Guide</span> DLCs and experience this amazing setting even in-between your murderous gaming sessions.

<span class="bold">Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun</span>, a hardcore stealth game where you control a team of deadly assassins, is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com with GOG Galaxy support for achievements and a 10% launch discount.

Shadow Tactics is an isometric, squad-based tactical strategy game where you navigate 1600s Japan, looking for cunning ways to assassinate your high-profile targets. Each of your five specialists excels at a different area, so you must be creative in utilizing their diverse skillset to strike swiftly and unseen. As the spiritual successor to beloved classics like Commandos and Desperados, Shadow Tactics brings back the suspense and satisfaction of pulling off a surgical hit with patience, meticulous planning, and split-second coordination. Use Hayato's ninja skills, Mugen's combat prowess, Aiko's disguises, Takuma's sharpshooting, or Yuki's traps and dispose of your enemies while staying undetected.

To get a good sense of how the dynamics between your five characters work, go ahead and try the free <span class="bold">Demo</span>.

Coordinate your talented band of death-dealers and employ <span class="bold">Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun</span> to pull off stealthy murders and sneaky sabotage -- DRM-free on GOG.com.
The 10% discount lasts until January 2, 4:59 PM UTC.

In the press:
"Atmospheric and impossible to rush, Shadow Tactics is a fabulous game - a game I think I prefer to both Commandos 2 and Desperados. I can see myself replaying it regularly."
RPS Recommended - RockPaperShotgun

"A glorious return for the hardcore tactical stealth genre."
8.5/10 - NZGamer


https://www.youtube.com/embed/BPuPywdVAeg
Post edited December 20, 2016 by maladr0Id
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Swedrami: Edo period Japan with its shinobis, kunoichis and whatnot on the other hand fits the genre where it's all about being sneaky and murdering people as stealthily as possible, like a glove
This is the main reason Shadow Tactics managed to unthrone Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive as my all-time favourite stealth game ;)
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Swedrami: I may be in the minority here but I never found that the Western setting lends itself well to the real-time stealth tactics genre at all. Desperados III and the first two installments in the franchise are very good games and iconic for a reason but for me there's too much of a dissonance when the characters' arsenal/tools of destruction include loud and noisy things like revolvers or dynamite.
I've heard a lot of people of such "minority" wonder why cowboys in Desperados 3 are better with knives, axes & sickles than guns... I'm sure she has her fans but a lot of people have also commented that Isabelle's "Mind Control" or "Connect" stuff feels way overpowered and magical powers in general feel weirdly disconnected from the game as a whole, (a bit like putting a fireball throwing mage into Commandos Behind Enemy Lines)... :-)
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice - Official Gameplay Trailer
Post edited August 31, 2021 by Swedrami
"The expansion features three fully fledged main missions, set in brand-new environments, and three shorter interlude missions."

Reportedly you're going to get about 6-8 hours out of it.
Post edited August 31, 2021 by Swedrami
Nevermind, same gameplay trailer as the above.
Post edited August 31, 2021 by Swedrami