Fire Emblem Shadows

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  • Summary: Consider the ally to your left and the one to your right. One of the three of you will betray the others.
    Can you manage real-time strategy and social deduction at the same time?
    Someone in your party is a traitor. You only have a few minutes per battle to figure out who. Will you    Consider the ally to your left and the one to your right. One of the three of you will betray the others.
    Can you manage real-time strategy and social deduction at the same time?

    Someone in your party is a traitor. You only have a few minutes per battle to figure out who.

    Will you remain loyal or betray all you knew? Expect the unexpected.    … Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 4 out of 5
  1. DBLTAP
    Sep 26, 2025
    60
    Fire Emblem Shadows is a fine enough game, but once you play it you can understand why Nintendo didn’t bother marketing this much. It’s not quite Fire Emblem enough for Fire Emblem fans, and non-FE fans probably already have a roughly equivalent game to enjoy on mobile. If nothing else, it does what it intends to do relatively well, and the monetization doesn’t actively try to pick a player’s pockets.
  2. Multiplayer.it
    Oct 2, 2025
    45
    Fire Emblem Shadows is not only a poor Fire Emblem game, but also a game that isn’t very fun. The strategic possibilities during matches are reduced to a minimum, and even the investigative component, meant to uncover the team’s traitor, fails to trigger engaging dynamics.
  3. Nintendo Life
    Oct 1, 2025
    40
    Fire Emblem Shadows is a turgid mobile game that serves up dull automated battles involving pay-to-win nonsense, timers, and cooldowns. The main selling point of a unique social experiment/turn-based battle hybrid is very weak in its setup, with neither enough players nor time in combat to create any semblance of actual strategy, and the game itself looks and plays poorly on the battlefield. There are a few nice cutscenes for fans who persist, and outfits for the outfits fans. But beyond this, it's thumbs down as far as the eye can see for this failed experiment.
  4. GameSpot
    Oct 1, 2025
    30
    There is a nugget of a good idea here, and one that is interesting on paper. Unfortunately, Fire Emblem Shadows' most innovative ideas bump up against its mobile and free-to-play nature, resulting in a game that is both not for Fire Emblem fans and hard to recommend to anyone.
  5. Metro GameCentral
    Oct 6, 2025
    30
    It’s atrocious, failing both as a tactical combat game and a whodunnit, instead settling for charging you to win more frequently via its paid battle pass.

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#9 Best iOS Game of 2025