Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

Not nearly as good as the other games they've made. Dull story that's forced in your face, easy levels. Quite sad because I quite enjoyed the other games, especially Desperados 3.

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.

Been a huge fan of Mimimi for the longest time now. Playing their previous stealth titles were so much fun. In my opinion this game is also pretty good despite comments that it could get "too easy". However, for a game that involves A LOT of trial and errors, playing around "time windows" like when guards rotate, and a lot of experimentation -- The save and load speed on this game is ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS! It's less noticeable on shorter levels. But Jesus Christ, on long and huge levels, especially when you're far into the level, the save and load speed is just WAY TOO slow which makes playing the game hella tedious. It was so buttery smooth to quick-save and quick-load back in Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and Desperados 3. I don't get why they had to ruin it on this one?? The animation of the orb getting cracks when quick loading gets old after like 1 level lol. The idea of placing an animation of an orb at the expense of quality of life just sucks overall.

It is a good game mechanically. Why the thumbs down then? Well, it's story and characters. Shadow tactics had really great characters that you can associate with, to which you can care. Those here are generic (un)dead pirates. No soul. Voice acting is also subpar. And the accents and selection of cast... feels like they wanted to jump late DEI train or something... Not fun, not engaging. Same goes for story itself - it is rather generic so far. I'll try to complete the game (but it is rather slow going to lack of engagement) and will alter this part of review if it becomes interesting. As for visuals and gameplay itself - same perfection as would expect. But that is not enough for me to recommend the game.

Really enjoyable game! I had no expectations when starting playing this game, although I played almost every game of that genre ever. I was pleasantly surprised. The setting is not confined to reality so there are many creative, magic skills for every character. Voice acting is great, characters you brought on the mission even chatter while using their skills. Some heroes have better stories and dialogues, but I think everyone will find someone they like the most. There are 5 story missions between action for every character and stories of those characters are of varied quality in my opinion. I enjoyed Toya story missions the most and I recommend everyone to complete them. The biggest downside for me was that every map has the same layout throughout the game, although I understand that those maps have to be doable with every combination of team possible. Nevertheless it seemed a little bit too repetitive.

very much enjoying this one. a lot of fun characters and the game play is more dynamic than other games. also the save system is amazing, almost instant load on my SSD, which makes the whole process even faster

Mimimi finished on a high note - Shadow Gambit is the best example of the Commandos genre I have played. The removal of the prescriptive team composition of previous games has enabled a much more flexible approach to the game play. Levels are tightly designed, and are missing some of the difficulty spikes of previous entries where you need split second perfect movement to progress - in my view these games are about planning and clever strategy, not fine clicking. A special shout out to the characterisation of the crew. Making them undead enabled very distinct characters with very distinct and clear personalities. In previous games the characters were only really defined by what they could do, not by who they are. The stories here are well told, have some depth, and are well voice acted. If you enjoy the Commandos genre, such as Desperados, Shadow Tactics or Partisans, you can't go wrong with this one.

Love it, yes a little late to the party and this is experience from the demo/first part of the game. Great atmosphere, reminds me very much of the Pirates of the Caribbean, love the characters and the levels are well thought out. I hope the devs from Mimimi are still in development somewhere else in the field (and of course have disregarded all the uncalled for negativity that a handful of misogynistic and racist numpties dished out!). I would say a def buy!

Each character is really powerful and is strong enough to solo most of the map except the situations where you need two or three characters. None of them are boring to use

So far it has a fun story, fun cast and fun gameplay loop. I'm sure it'll get harder but I'm enjoying playing a game with a pretty fixed scope that does what it intends to do well, rather than a million half baked ideas. In short it's a rapid save, rapid retry stealth 'em up. Save-scumming is the intended play style, this isn't for everyone so know that going in.