Masquerada: Songs and Shadows

Masquerada is a single-player tactical RPG set in a Renaissance-inspired city of magic, where real-time combat can be paused to set up elemental combos powered by Venetian-styled masks. Come for gorgeous hand-drawn art; stay for the rich lore & a thoughtful, fully-voiced tale of intrigue & tragedy.

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is a real-time with pause, dark fantasy and party-based rpg game developed by Witching Hour Studios and published by Ysbryd Games.
Released on September 30th 2016 is available on Windows and MacOS in 6 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Turkish.

It has received 534 reviews of which 474 were positive and 60 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Masquerada: Songs and Shadows into these genres:

Real-Time with Pause Dark Fantasy Party-Based RPG RPG Isometric Magic Linear Lore-Rich Story Rich Drama 2.5D Hand-drawn Strategy RPG Tactical RPG LGBTQ+ Colorful Fantasy Tactical Mystery Great Soundtrack

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: 2.4GHz Intel Core i3
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4400
Storage: 16 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X Mountain Lion
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M
Storage: 16 GB available space

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

Honestly the gameplay at first is a little meh but does get better and in the end is a great vessel for an amazing a touching story. Also the world is actually really interesting.

Dec. 2024

Great art, fun gameplay, great VA, and a fantastic soundtrack

Oct. 2024

Want a Renaissance ARPG where you use magic masks to cast elemental magic? Then check out this Cheapness affordable gaming review of Masquerada: Songs and Shadows [Episode 92] https://youtu.be/uUhXJZR8sEE Text Review: -Good visuals (Nice cel shading and faction colour-coding, hand drawn backgrounds, better than average comic cutscenes and thumbnail facial animations, if they show little emotional range. Some details look blurry and some areas can look lifeless and too clean but some can look brilliant and overall it looks very good) -Great music, if not that memorable (Nice operatic, choral singing and lilting music that's somber yet hopeful. A heart racing, blistering, combat track too) -Great, extensive voice acting that breathes life into everything (Very beefy cast in voice acting circles but it doesn't handle the codex) -Very good story (OK plot, good world-building, good interactions with the characters and great internal monologue from Cicero in the codex. The codex is where the most profound thoughts will be contained. Cicero is a lovely, morally compromised, yet understanding character but there are occasions where he behaves irrationally, where dialogue feels cut short to set up talking about it later and maybe some obvious reveals) -It's a story based game, that's the main draw, it's most of what the game is and since the codex is not voiced over you will have to read a lot to fully appreciate it -The gameplay isn't great and on normal difficulty it did not require much tactical thought, maybe it's harsh to put this here as a con but it's busy work adjacent. The systems aren't that deep, it's very linear, finding the engravings, inks and codex entries isn't hard. I'm really trying to find a con because I really like this game but the gameplay breaks up the story so that it feels less like a movie and an appreciation of the story is probably needed to buy this game! Practical Applications: -Great Value for money (R1.30/ $0.20/ £0.16 per hour for me) -Fairly big at 11.03 Gb -Almost easy to run (Can play on the warhorse well enough at decreased graphical settings)

July 2024

This is actually high art - the visuals, the music and sound design, the voice acting, the writing, how the gameplay mechanics all tie together. I cannot say this about most games.

April 2024

This game is a must have. The battle system is like Dragon Age, except the field of view is from above. Together with and incredible story line, interesting characters with intriguing different stories (none woke for what I've seen), and perfect music, this game has the perfect combination for a thrilling experience.

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Steam reviews	23 January 2025 07:47

19.99€

8.3

474

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Developer

Witching Hour Studios

Publisher

Ysbryd Games

Release 30 Sep 2016

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