Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms comes in two parts. The first one, Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms Book I: Devourer of Souls, is available right now. The second one, Book II: Age of Demons, is coming as a free update…
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is an indie developed by Games Farm, released 20 November 2014 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $8.99 at GOG.
What Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is an indie game developed by Games Farm and released in 2014. It was published by bitComposer Games. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on OGRE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms comes in two parts. The first one, Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms Book I: Devourer of Souls, is available right now. The second one, Book II: Age of Demons, is coming as a free update, expected in February 2015. In Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms, you are caught up in a conflict between powerful mages who seek to exploit the power vacuum created by the defeat of a succession of cruel empires. You will play a demon that can devour the souls of the dead – and embody them as Puppets. But are you truly the master of these fallen heroes – or are you merely the servant of darker forces? Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms is sequel to critically highly acclaimed Kult: Heretic Kingdoms…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 13 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for x86 processor, 2.5 GHz, 4 GB RAM and nVidiaGeForce 260GTX or higher. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. 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 $8.99 at GOG, 70% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms launched on 20 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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