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2023 · Mimimi Productions · Adventure · Indie

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

Welcome to the Lost Caribbean! In this stealth strategy game, join a ghost ship with a living soul and assemble a cursed pirate crew. Embrace magical powers to defy the menacing army of the Inquisition, who stands between you and the mysterious treasure of the legendary Captain Mordechai.

Released: 17 August 2023
Platforms: PlayStation 5 Windows Xbox Series X/S
Genres: Adventure Indie Real-time tactics Role-playing Strategy Tactical
Developers: Mimimi Productions
Publishers: Mimimi Productions
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action Fantasy Stealth Sandbox
Country: Germany
Age ratings: GRAC 15+ACB M USK 12 PEGI 16 ESRB T CLASS_IND 14
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, English (UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and 2 more
Time to beat: 28hmain story76hcompletionist

About

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a real-time tactics video game developed and published by Mimimi Games. The game was released for the PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X and Series S in August 2023. The developer Mimimi shut down shortly after the release of the game.

›Story

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew unfolds in an alternate version of the Golden Age of Piracy, a fantastical Caribbean where a mysterious curse has stirred the dead back to life and gifted them supernatural abilities. The player takes command of a band of these cursed pirates, undead buccaneers each possessed of strange and singular powers, and sets out to explore a scattered island chain known as the Lost Caribbean. Their voyages are carried out aboard the ghostly ship Red Marley, which serves as home and haven between raids. Opposing them is the Inquisition, a merciless order determined to hunt down every Cursed soul and stamp out the magic that sustains them.

To survive and grow their crew, the pirates slip through hostile strongholds to seize powerful magical artifacts coveted by their enemies. Moving from island to island, resurrecting fallen allies and gathering forbidden power, the crew embarks on a supernatural treasure hunt against an implacable foe that means to see them destroyed for good.

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Gameplay

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a real-time tactics video game played from an isometric perspective. The game features eight characters at launch. Each character in the game has their own unique abilities. For instance, Pinkus can briefly possess enemies and enter restricted areas, while Suleidy can distract enemies with plant spores, and spawn a bush anywhere in the game as a hiding spot for other players.

Their magical abilities can also be further upgraded by collecting a resource named "vigour". Players will visit the game's various islands multiple times in order to collect Black Pearls and Soul Power, the two of which together can be used to resurrect other characters in the game. Characters, once resurrected, will join the player's crew.

Story

The game is set in an alternate version of the Golden Age of Piracy, in which a mysterious curse has revived the dead and granted them supernatural abilities. The player must assemble a cursed pirate crew to explore an island chain named the Lost Caribbean and steal magical artifacts from the Inquisition, which seeks to hunt down all the Cursed individuals.

Development

Shadow Gambit features a fantasy backdrop, allowing the team to significantly expand character skills. The game also features a more open-ended structure, as the player can recruit characters and complete missions in any order they want.

The game was developed by Mimimi Games as its first self-published game. Mimimi dubbed Shadow Gambit a "real-time stealth strategy" game. Internally codenamed "Project Süßkartoffel", it was developed with funds from both the German government and Kowloon Nights. Sweet Baby Inc.