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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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GOG.com: snip....
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catpower1980: Snif, poor game that will go unnoticed on GOG in this ocean of bundles and sales widgets... :(

Is it too much to ask to put the game banner on top of the homepage rather than being buried a few screens down?
This!
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tinyE: The demo was one of the most amazing, most fun things it has ever been my pleasure to play, but there is NO FUCkING WAY I'm paying $35. :P
Where is your avatar? :-P
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gmx: Well, I'm on the other hand trying to buy it, but gog dont want to take my money, wtf? ;]
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JudasIscariot: I am not sure but it looks like your order went through??? In any case, please contact our Support department if you're still experiencing issues buying the game :)
Yes, its ok now, downloading ;]

After checkout i wasnt redirected to paypal - infinite waitng. After fiew minutes (and dinner...) closed the tab, game was still in basket and no order in account- tried again and this time it went without a problem
This game looks like exactly the thing I want. I think I'll take a chance on it. Impressions so far seem to be universally positive.
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tinyE: The demo was one of the most amazing, most fun things it has ever been my pleasure to play, but there is NO FUCkING WAY I'm paying $35. :P
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Experiment513: Where is your avatar? :-P
Same place this forum us headed, the fucking sewer. :P
Yay! Finally!

The demo made it.

Like they said at Rock Paper Shotgun: it promises to be even more enjoyable than Commandos and Desperados.

Nice story, nice incentives to repeat missions in different ways with additional challenges.

Again, nice demos help games! Especially when they try to prove something. In this case, that the Commandos formula can be improved further.
Wishlisted it, then a couple of hours later, GOG sent me an email with the title:
Hey! We think you'll like Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
GOG, you're funny.
Love it, played the Demo for hours and now finally I can start with the full game, cool! :)
But I seem to have some random performance hitches, were the game slows down for a few seconds to
like 5 fps and then comes back to full fps, don't know what causes those!
Demo has no linux? :/ ... I'm almost on the hook, so just wanted to make sure it will work on my machine... ... thinking about it now, I will probably not play this in another 10y, as my backlog is of monstrous size, so at that time I will have probably different HW with new kubuntu (or more likely neon), but it would be still nice to just get a glimpse of it...

Oh well, meanwhile I argued myself by this to not bother with test and just enlarge the shelf...

BTW, lately it feels like there was some kind of sweet spot for linux support 2-3y ago and it's starting to get low again, like Witcher 3 .... :/ ... I hope it will pick up somewhat again. Also there are several dosbox games on Gog which can be run under native dosbox quite easily, last time I "patched" (one line bash script to launch it) Might&Magic 3 in this way, reusing GOGs windows dosbox configs.
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ped7g: Demo has no linux? :/ ...
demo got stuck in GOG's QA process it seems
Game looks pretty sweet. Definitely one I'll keep my eye on
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HypersomniacLive: Wishlisted it, then a couple of hours later, GOG sent me an email with the title:

Hey! We think you'll like Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
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HypersomniacLive: GOG, you're funny.
I got that email and I don't have it on my wishlist. But they're right. Probably know about that Commandos pack in my library. Sneaky :)
Of course.

A game I'd been waiting for and it comes out right after I just spend several months worth of my gaming budget on sales :)

Publishers need to start aiming for release dates that don't coincide with seasonal sales on GOG/Steam/PSN...

...and that's not counting all the Pokemon money that just went out the door.
Post edited December 07, 2016 by liamphoenix
Talk about a bad release timing.
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tinyE: The demo was one of the most amazing, most fun things it has ever been my pleasure to play, but there is NO FUCkING WAY I'm paying $35. :P
Go back a few years, and that was a genuine bargain price for a brand new top-quality game.