Shadows of Forbidden Gods

Take on the role of a Dark Elder God and lead your agents to bring about an apocalypse in a fantasy world. Work in the shadows, avoiding the heroes who will try to stop you, as you bring about plague and famine, ice age and volcanic destruction, madness and never ending night.

Shadows of Forbidden Gods is a strategy, simulation and god game game developed by Bobby Two Hands and published by Forbidden Oak Games Limited.
Released on July 15th 2023 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 857 reviews of which 798 were positive and 59 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Shadows of Forbidden Gods into these genres:

Strategy Simulation God Game Turn-Based Strategy Grand Strategy Outbreak Sim Political Sim 2D Top-Down Conspiracy Crime Dark Dark Fantasy Destruction Dystopian Economy Fantasy Gothic Horror Lovecraftian

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Intel i5-2500 or equivalent
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Graphics: Integrated Graphics
Storage: 1 GB available space

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

It is incredibly rare that I will play a game for a few sessions at launch, come back to it a full year later, and then completely lose track of time for 3 hours straight. The simplest description I can give is the AI is playing a grand strategy game like Crusader Kings. You however are different. You're playing a dark ancient evil god trying to carefully puppeteer your way to victory. You don't have much direct influence (at first), but you have loyal followers who carry out your will across the world. The level of depth here is pretty astounding, and it can be a bit overwhelming on your first game. I think going in expecting to lose the first time is a good policy. I really didn't have a full grasp on what I was doing for most of the first game, but I was so fascinated I played a few more. Honestly a banger, also the art if BEAUTIFUL.

April 2024

This game gives an absolutely abysmal first impression: muddy assets, hideous boxes and buttons, a lack of visual consistency, walls of text, the joke that is the combat ui...I confess I passed it up myself twice before I finally gave it a chance. Dear (dark-)lord I did not regret it. It has a free demo, TRY IT. This game has incredible depth, giving you an enormous set of tools to use in order to achieve victory in a combination of different ways. Usually a given plan will only get you part-way to victory, as the meddling heroes will ruin your day and force you to adapt, and each plan you do enact will also make the world more aware and more cooperative keeping the AI a threat right until the end. It is reminiscent of the old saturday morning cartoon villain going "Fools! You may have destroyed my army of dinosaur robots, but while you were busy I completed my orbital death ray!" but played in a serious eldritch-apocalypse way. Some examples: -The orc horde pulled together from several tribes through the might of your eldritch-empowered orc-warlord falls apart and is destroyed by the Holy-Order spawned crusade when Ser Orcslayer Heroman kills him in single combat. Your plans are disrupted, but now your necromancer can raise the millions of dead orcs into an undead army. -The Chosen One purifies the corruption you have been spreading to the ruler of a Human empire and wards the city to prevent it from happening again, but he was too busy doing that to form the alliance allowing your agents to trigger a war in another area. -The agent you had spreading plague among the dwarves was hunted down allowing them the chance to develop immunity, but their population was diminished enough that if you conjure an army of cthonians they won't be able to hold them -A hero stamps out a Deep One cult you have been growing that had almost hit the critical mass required to seize the city and make an Abyssal Sanctum, but while he was doing that he wasn't guarding his Archmage friend. Allowing them to be assassinated so they won't be able to stop your Geomancer from starting an ice age. -The Holy Order that has generally been a nuisance declares a prophet from another nuisance of a hero, your Bloodmage possesses the prophet to use his perceived authority to undermine the core tenets of the order so that they now spread chaos instead. For a start, and that's just the base mechanics available to every god.

March 2024

It's a map game (EU4, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings) but instead of directly controlling a nation you just control a handful of dudes that run around causing mischief. The game-play consists mostly of selecting an activity to do and then spamming the end turn button until it's completed. It sounds boring and it mostly is, but there's something compelling about it. I play for a bit get bored and quit, only to open it up a few minutes later. I lose a game, uninstall, and then lie awake in bed thinking about it. I even have dreams of playing it. I guess this truly is an Eldritch nightmare. Even though i think i hate this game, it consumes my every thought.

March 2024

Sometimes you come across games that are clearly works of passion. These games typically feature an idiosyncratic style that places emphasis on particular aspects while the remainder are merely serviceable, they exist only to support the execution of the dev's fascination. This is one these, and it is excellent! What this game really is underneath the window dressing is a highly simulated agent driven sandbox world set up as to be very vulnerable to cascading failure. It's quite transparent about it, you can click on any character and see exactly what they are thinking and why. Every modifier tells you what it does and how it's trending, all the numbers are just there for you. To make it concrete: say you're trying to start a deep one cult and condemn a bloodline into becoming fishy friends. The nascent fish cult has a menace, and a range that this menace is visible from. A nearby hero keeps going all spanish inquistion on your arse and wont leave, but their home is under threat by bandits so maybe you can use that. Except they're a coward... bummer. Ok so you slap them around in a fight and taunt them, so they grow a spine. Now they love combat and danger, then you take the agent that slapped them around and you go raid the farms around their home city plunging it into chaos. Just to top it off you fund some bandits to make them more dangerous. Now you can see in that hero's motivation that they are going to bee line it over to their home city to stamp out the chaos and maybe kill the agent behind it all, so you slip in to the cult and make them all hush hush. The hero wont be able to see the cult's threat anymore and you're in the clear for now! Except, ah, it looks like while you were doing this the chosen one put up some wards around the leader of the most powerful kingdom, you can't corrupt them with shadow anymore but what's that? docks in the city? perhaps there's another way in... Most people are probably of the sane sort and this sounds hellish but there's a certain kind of person which is probably intrigued and if that is you then I am here to tell you that this game is a masterpiece.

March 2024

TLDR: Buy this game if you love turn based strategy, but find Civ/Stellaris/TW to be stale and predictable. It exceeds the AAA competitors in meaningful ways. This is an incredible strategy game. Perhaps not the most visually impressive game, but this game stays installed while others like Stellaris, Civilization, and Total War come and go from my desktop. The game play is unique and the art and writing are excellent. Compared to the other AAA games I mentioned, Shadows is the superior game in two major ways. First: your god's mechanics are completely different from your opponents, so the game doesn't 'cheat' to be harder. In most other games, you're using the same mechanics as the AI and so on harder difficulties the AI simply gets to do more for less. Second, and most importantly: you don't steamroll in this game. The challenge isn't all front loaded. Civ, Stellaris, and TW all get more predictable and less exciting as the game goes on, and your victory becomes more assured. Shadows feels more like playing Jenga, where the tension builds as the game advances and every turn feels more critical than the last. If you love strategy games, but hate how they become predictable and boring over the course of a game - then do yourself a favor and give Shadows of Forbidden Gods a try.

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16.79€

8.8

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Developer

Bobby Two Hands

Publisher

Forbidden Oak Games Limited

Release 15 Jul 2023

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