After delivering a number of excellent stealth technique titles within the type of Shadow Ways: Blades of the Shogun, Desperados 3, and Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, developer Mimimi Video games took everybody without warning when it introduced final yr that it will be shutting down despite the success of its titles, with the co-founders citing “a heavy private toll”. Within the aftermath, the way forward for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew particularly regarded unsure, being Mimimi Video games’ solely self-published title, although issues at the moment are trying rather more safe.
Manor Lords writer Hooded Horse has introduced that it has acquired the publishing rights for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew throughout all platforms. Going ahead, the sport will probably be printed, distributed, and dealt with usually by Hooded Horse.
“We’re honored and humbled that Mimimi selected us to be part of Shadow Gambit’s journey,” says Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender. “This recreation is the head of stealth technique video games, and we’re trying ahead to serving to it preserve the long-term success it deserves.”
“Shadow Gambit is in its closing kind, and we’re excited to be partnering with Hooded Horse for its ongoing industrial wants,” says Mimimi Co-Founder Johannes Roth. “We’re very impressed by their strategy to indie publishing and are assured they may assist the sport attain much more gamers.”
In our evaluate of Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, we awarded it a rating of 9/10, saying, “Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a superb recreation. With its splendidly realized fantasy pirate setting, it immediately pulls you into its world, and with a mix of tight and completely applied mechanics, excellently designed stealth sandboxes, and a vibrant solid of characters that’s an absolute blast to play as, it delivers a persistently enjoyable and ingenious journey the place the stealth, techniques, and experimentation by no means lose any of their appeal, proper up till the credit roll.” Learn the complete evaluate via right here.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is on the market on PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC.