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With premier stealth-tactics studio Mimimi Games shutting down, Hooded Horse will take over publishing duties for its closing sport: Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. The 2023 isometric stealth launch was extensively thought-about a pinnacle of the style and one of many 12 months’s finest video games—PC Gamer known as it simply that with its Best Stealth of 2023 award.
Mimimi introduced final 12 months that Shadow Gambit can be its closing launch, surrendering to the more and more anxious actuality of recent video games improvement in favor of the well being of its builders. “Working on more and more formidable video games took a heavy private toll on us and our households” it mentioned on the time, wrapping up 15 years of improvement that included hits like Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and Desperados 3.
Hooded Horse is an up-and-coming technique writer, and hopefully an excellent long-term residence for Mimimi’s swansong of fantasy Caribbean pirates and their quest for the last word treasure on a literal ghost ship. The 2023 launch obtained two actually good enlargement packs, Zagan’s Ritual and Yuki’s Wish, earlier than the studio closed up late final 12 months.
“Shadow Gambit is in its closing type, and we’re excited to be partnering with Hooded Horse for its ongoing industrial wants,” mentioned Mimimi co-founder Johannes Roth in a press launch. “We’re very impressed by their method to indie publishing and are assured they are going to assist the sport attain much more gamers.”
Shadow Gambit bought an 87% assessment right here on PC Gamer, with reviewer Dominic Tarason calling it “Superb squad-based stealth technique that embraces the magic of save-scumming.” Which it undoubtedly does, in a uniquely cool approach, by having the entire thing work round time-altering magic.
Here’s hoping the genre-defining hit stays obtainable for a few years to come back.
