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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Indie

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

85
465 reviews
Metacritic

Dec 5, 2016

About

A real-time tactics game set in early 17th-century Japan during the Edo period, where the player controls a team of five assassins tasked with eliminating a rebel leader. Core gameplay involves stealth-based elimination of guards, corpse concealment, and strategic use of character-specific abilities to infiltrate and sabotage enemy strongholds. The narrative follows the samurai Mugen as he uncovers a conspiracy against the shogun, escalating into an open rebellion requiring covert operations to resolve.

Review Scores

82
Metacritic
Users · 465 reviews

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Users (Metacritic)85
Critics85

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