When did Fire Emblem Shadows come out?

Fire Emblem Shadows was released on 25 September 2025 for Android and iOS.

Fire Emblem Shadows (2025) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Fire Emblem Shadows

The gameplay of Fire Emblem Shadows combines real-time strategy and social deduction. One of the three allies participating in each battle is secretly a treacherous disciple of shadow. Players choose to take…

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What Fire Emblem Shadows is

Fire Emblem Shadows is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2025. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Android and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The gameplay of Fire Emblem Shadows combines real-time strategy and social deduction. One of the three allies participating in each battle is secretly a treacherous disciple of shadow. Players choose to take on the role of either a disciple of light, aiming to find their way through the labyrinth, or a disciple of shadow. After the initial battle, players vote to determine who they believe is the treacherous disciple of shadow. The outcome of the vote affects whether the next battle is more favorable or more challenging. Whether the disciples of light can correctly discover the traitor—or the disciple of shadow can successfully deceive the others—holds the key to how the next battle unfolds.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Fire Emblem series

Fire Emblem Shadows is the 65th of 66 entries we hold in the Fire Emblem series. It arrived 2 years after Fire Emblem Engage: Fell Xenologue. The next entry was Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave in 2026. Its critic score of 90 is 10 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Fire Emblem Shadows holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Fire Emblem Shadows launched on 25 September 2025, within three weeks of Battlefield 6, Ghost of Yotei, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Silent Hill f. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 6, Ghost of Yotei, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Silent Hill f.

Cheats and codes

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