Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Welcome to the Lost Caribbean! In this stealth strategy game, join a ghost ship with a living soul and assemble a cursed pirate crew. Embrace magical powers to defy the menacing army of the Inquisition, who…
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is an adventure developed by Mimimi Games, released 17 August 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $9.99 at Humble Store.
What Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is an adventure game developed by Mimimi Games and released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew unfolds in an alternate version of the Golden Age of Piracy, a fantastical Caribbean where a mysterious curse has stirred the dead back to life and gifted them supernatural abilities. The player takes command of a band of these cursed pirates, undead buccaneers each possessed of strange and singular powers, and sets out to explore a scattered island chain known as the Lost Caribbean. Their voyages are carried out aboard the ghostly ship Red Marley, which serves as home and haven between raids. Opposing them is the Inquisition, a merciless order determined to hunt down every Cursed soul and stamp out the magic that sustains them. To survive and grow their crew…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, sandbox and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 26 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5-7400 (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 1200 (quad-core), 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 Ti (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 7870 (2 GB). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 28GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $9.99 at Humble Store, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew launched on 17 August 2023, within three weeks of Starfield, Baldur's Gate III, Baldur's Gate III and Overwatch. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Starfield, Baldur's Gate III, Baldur's Gate III, Overwatch.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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