Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

 PC
Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 47 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 47
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 47
  3. Negative: 0 out of 47
  1. Riot Pixels
    Jan 28, 2024
    72
    Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a good game, but it lacks a spark.
  2. Gamersky
    Aug 17, 2023
    72
    Playing Shadow Gambit feels like peeling an onion - as I progress from the outer layers to the core, taking down enemies in the city, and each achievement is small, often mixed with discomfort and bitterness.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Aug 17, 2023
    70
    The resulting tone is even more fantastical and cartoonish than that of Mimimi’s previous games, suggesting Pirates of the Caribbean mashed up with the big personalities and individual superpowers of One Piece.
  5. WellPlayed
    Aug 16, 2023
    70
    This spooky age of piracy has charming supernatural characters and visuals, but the hardcore stealth action on offer is an uncompromising, often unwieldy beast.
  6. GamesRadar+
    Aug 16, 2023
    70
    Shadow Gambit is a fiendishly fun stealth strategy game that does precisely what it says on the tin. With stunning voice acting, atmospheric maps, and no shortage of ways to solve the sandbox puzzles in each one, you'll be so bewitched by the world and its charming cast of characters that the muddy plot can almost be forgiven.
  7. Gamer.no
    Aug 16, 2023
    70
    Mimimi Games works wonders to make supernatural abilities a balanced, visually striking, and unexpectedly cool part of this real-time tactics game. Sadly, Shadow Gambit loses its way as you’re forced to revisit the same handful of islands again and again in service of a story that lacks cohesion.
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  1. 3DJuegos
    Aug 21, 2023
    The pirate fantasy setting has allowed the studio to go wild with the crew's powers and abilities. You will not find a revolution in the formula, but there are enough additions to make it as or more interesting than its previous works. [Recommended]
  2. Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Aug 16, 2023
    Backed by that scene-stealing twist I mentioned earlier, and Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is simply an extremely good time from start to finish. It's not only a highly satisfying strategic stealth game in its own right, but its ruminations on memory, the past lives and decisions of its pirate crew, and the way it reckons with its own in-game act of forging and preserving new memories all point to a studio at the peak of their powers. This is a game to be treasured, and the only thing I could wish for now is to turn back to the clock so I can experience it all over again from the beginning. [RPS Bestest Bests]

Awards & Rankings

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#37 Best PC Game of 2023
70
#70 Most Discussed PC Game of 2023

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User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 37 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 37
  3. Negative: 6 out of 37
  1. vergilistan
    Aug 21, 2023
    10
    this is the best game i have played in stealth-strategy genre.this is greater than desparados and commandos
  2. Mythic82
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    +Well polished
    -Repetitive after a while, no big gameplay changes along the way
  3. off3nc3
    Sep 3, 2023
    4
    Game was fun for a few missions but becomes repetitive real fast , storyline and characters lore is really lacking and not engaging , also asGame was fun for a few missions but becomes repetitive real fast , storyline and characters lore is really lacking and not engaging , also as you progress you start replaying all the first maps and this becomes very boring.

    Got bored after the 5 missions , Desperados series was much better.    … Full Review »
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