Shadowgate

 PC
User Score
7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 49 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 49
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 49
  3. Negative: 9 out of 49

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  1. Voyou
    May 26, 2021
    2
    Dusting out an antique abandonware to refresh its art is only a good idea if you don't bring back the old flaws with it. Here, every action takes 10 clicks too many before it is achieved. Thirty years of interface progress down the drain. You'll dread having to use anything from your inventory.

    Worse yet, the gameplay brings back one of the worst design flaws we had to commonly endure    Dusting out an antique abandonware to refresh its art is only a good idea if you don't bring back the old flaws with it. Here, every action takes 10 clicks too many before it is achieved. Thirty years of interface progress down the drain. You'll dread having to use anything from your inventory.

    Worse yet, the gameplay brings back one of the worst design flaws we had to commonly endure back then: the arbitrary instant deaths. They constantly punish you for exploring. They force you to find out and remember, by trial and dumb luck, which random click kills you and which one advances you. Of course, the obsolete interface doesn't reload automatically upon death. In fact, it doesn't even auto-save.

    And that's not all: you have to micro-manage your torches. They have a life span. They die out. You can't play in a dark room. Really, you will fall and die walking in the dark. I don't remember that the original game was that bad.    … Expand
  2. bancandrei
    May 20, 2020
    4
    Graphics are worse than most hidden object games and gameplay is seriously out of date

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68

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. Riot Pixels
    Jan 25, 2015
    45
    This updated version of Shadowgate is astonishingly close to the original game, but it is not a merit. The developers were high on nostalgia, and they ended up reanimating a decomposed corpse.
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  2. Games.cz
    Oct 14, 2014
    80
    An excellent revival of a classic that has not gotten a chance to grow old, and thanks to many improvements and extensions it charms not only the people who do not know it but also those who are its old time fans. It delivers a solid challenge and long hours of puzzle solving in an excellently elaborated game with a great atmosphere. If you are into first person adventure games that are focused on secrets and their discovering, you should not miss modern Shadowgate.
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  3. Adventure Gamers
    Oct 13, 2014
    80
    Zojoi’s Shadowgate remake is everything you loved – and maybe everything you hated – about old-school adventuring. It offers a captivating journey into a fantasy dungeon, but it’s inhabited by puzzles so artificially challenging that this quest is one not everyone will want to undertake.
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