Shadowgate
Shadowgate is one of the most well-known and beloved adventure titles in gaming history. It quickly endeared players with its fantastic atmospheric soundtrack, perilous locations to progress through, countless…
Shadowgate is an adventure developed by Abstraction Games, released 21 August 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS. It currently starts at $2.99 at GOG.
What Shadowgate is
Shadowgate is an adventure game developed by Abstraction Games and released in 2014. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shadowgate is a 1987 point-and-click adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and published by Mindscape for the Macintosh as part of the MacVenture series. The game takes place in the Castle Shadowgate, residence of the evil Warlock Lord. The player, as the "last of a great line of hero-kings", is tasked with saving the world by defeating the Warlock Lord, who is attempting to summon the demon Behemoth out of Hell. The original Macintosh version was only in black-and-white, but color versions of the game were later released for the Amiga and Atari ST, and in 1989 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was generally well-received, and was followed by several sequels and remakes…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 60 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Shadowgate holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4GHz Processor, 1 GB RAM and 512MB Dedicated Video Memory. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Shadowgate launched on 21 August 2014, within three weeks of Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Destiny and Metro Redux. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Destiny, Metro Redux.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadowgate yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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