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Assemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a strategy, rpg and fantasy game developed by Mimimi Games and published by Mimimi Games and Hooded Horse.
Released on August 17th 2023 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 4,773 reviews of which 4,422 were positive and 351 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 1.06€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew into these genres:

Strategy RPG Fantasy Character Customization RTS Dark Fantasy CRPG Tactical Story Rich Choices Matter Real Time Tactics War Singleplayer Grand Strategy Adventure Action Atmospheric Stealth Combat Class-Based

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-7400 (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 1200 (quad-core)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 Ti (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2 GB)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 28 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2026

This is fun, but it's not as good as Mimimi's other two games, for a number of reasons. The core gameplay remains the same; however, there's one big change: when going on a mission, we can select from any of the game's 8 characters (plus 2 DLC characters for a total of 10). While it theoretically provides the player more freedom in how they approach each mission, in practice it means that the enemy setups in each mission are created in a way that allows them to be resolved by a wide variety of character lineups. As a result, every mission feels kind of samey, even if you bring different characters to each. Where previous two games felt like a puzzle to be solved, with each mission having pre-determined characters and an interesting challenge tailored specifically for that set of characters, this game feels more like a sandbox, with that feeling of puzzle solving and uniqueness to each mission kind of gone. On top of that, some character abilities are clearly stronger than others, and there's nothing really to prevent you from bringing those characters to every mission. The game is set in a fictional version of Caribbean, which is also a much less interesting setting for me than feudal Japan or Wild West from the two previous games. The environments are beautiful, but look very similar in each location, whereas in previous games most missions looked very distinct and interesting in their own right (especially in Desperados III). In between missions you can now complete small side quests on your ship with each character. There's a lot of dialogues during these, and it is clear that the game tries to be funny very hard in these, with almost each line being some sort of attempt at humor, but the humor is very dry. I can definitely remember more hilarious moments from Desperados III than from this, even though I played it a few years ago. So yeah, Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a big step back from other Mimimi games in my opinion, but the core gameplay is still as solid, so I mostly enjoyed playing it.

Dec. 2025

This game is awesome. If you like RTT games, you'll probably enjoy this. I came from Shadow Tactics and then Desperados 3, and had so much fun playing this. It certainly is way less "serious" our grounded in reality than the other 2 games (goofy story, 100% fantasy and magic). I thought I wouldn't enjoy it after reading other reviews saying this, but I did. A lot! Give it a try, it'll be worth it!

Sept. 2025

Thank you, Mimimi Games. It was a great journey. I truly enjoyed all three games — Shadow Tactics, Desperados III, and Shadow Gambit. I highly recommend them all, and I think Shadow Gambit was the easiest of the three.

Aug. 2025

Shadow Gambit is the easiest video game compared to Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 from Mimimi Games, even on the highest difficulty level, but it remains extremely fun and definitely suitable for newcomers to the genre. More experienced players can still come up with unique challenges to keep the difficulty level on par with the other titles. Mimimi Games has now shut down, but they did so while keeping all their promises and informing the developers well in advance. We definitely owe them a lot, as they were the only game studio that carried on this genre, allowing us to relive the glory days of the 'Commandos' series.

July 2025

Pros + Many characters to choose from with fun and unique abilities + Many different missions with unique objectives + Carries over the excellent real time tactics mechanics from Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 + Incorporates the quick save mechanic into the story, which is pretty cool + Excellent controller support, considering this is a RTT game Cons - Maps are re-used too often - Some maps are too large - Gameplay can get repetitive due to revisiting the same maps and thus encountering the same enemies - Optional achievements can get very tedious, exacerbated by the large maps - No characters with AoE abilities Neutral +/- Story is a lot campier than previous entries, and while it has its comedic moments, just isn't very appealing overall Conclusion Going from the grounded and serious tone of Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 to a campy cursed pirate adventure was a rather questionable creative decision, and unfortunately one which led to the closure of the development studio. But as someone who's a fan of both Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3, I have to say I enjoyed the core gameplay of Shadow Gambit. The incorporation of curses and magics also allowed for some pretty fun abilities and strategies that would not have been possible in Mimimi's other games. This would've been a perfect game, were it not for the fact that the game reuses islands/maps way too often, and it started to get really repetitive towards the end killing the same enemies over and over again. But despite its shortcomings, Mimimi has set the gold standard for modern real-time tactics games, and Shadow Gambit makes for a bittersweet sendoff for the studio.

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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew received 4,422 positive votes out of a total of 4,773 achieving a rating of 8.93.

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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew was developed by Mimimi Games and published by Mimimi Games and Hooded Horse.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is not playable on MacOS.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is not playable on Linux.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a single-player game.

There are 4 DLCs available for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. Explore additional content available for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew on Steam.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew does not support Steam Remote Play.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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