Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
2016
Audio: English, Japanese · Subtitles: German, English, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Korean, Italian, French, Japanese
- real time strategy (rts)
- simulator
- strategy
- tactical
- indie
- action
- stealth
- single player
The story
Skillfully hide from and sneak past the enemies fields of view, take their formations apart and hide their bodies to cover your tracks. Quick Save will enable you to execute your plans perfectly. Tactically plan actions for your whole team and execute them all at once. Make use of the vertical gameplay and jump from roof to roof to silently kill your foes from above.
What it’s like
Hand-painted Edo-era villages rendered in bright, saturated watercolour tones, with sunlit rice paddies, pale wooden rooftops and deep green forest canopies that give way to moonlit night missions where lantern glow pools against dark shadow. The view is a fixed, slightly elevated overhead camera that lets you read every sightline at once, and the soundscape pairs quiet birdsong and creaking timber with sparse shakuhachi and taiko that swells when a patrol turns. Pacing is deliberate and puzzle-like: long stretches of studying guard routes and cone-shaped fields of view, then sharp bursts of coordinated takedowns, with a quick-save safety net that makes failure feel like a rehearsal rather than a setback. Violence is stylised and bloodless, mostly silent stealth kills, grapples and throws, with occasional brief sword clashes and no gore; the tension is strategic rather than frightening. Its tone is clever, focused and quietly satisfying, suited to a weekend afternoon at a desk, a long train journey, or an evening of solving a problem one careful move at a time. It is for players who enjoy planning, patience and precision, and who want a tactical stealth game with a warm, storybook sheen rather than grim realism.
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