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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

byMimimi Games•2023

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 stands between you and the mysterious treasure of the legendary Captain Mordechai.

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Released
August 17, 2023
Developer
Mimimi Games
Publisher
Mimimi Games
Platforms
PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S

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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is one of those games where the “just one more time” dilemma is apparent - and in a very good way. With fun stealth-based

Aug 29, 2023

Almost perfect if not for the nitty-gritty. If it’s quite there but not enough to push the boundaries, it’s still an awesome game.

Aug 30, 2023

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a deeply rewarding and mind-busting stealth tactics game from Mimimi Games. Featuring unique and memorable characters, Shadow Gambit will unleash your inner tactician as you take your undead pirate crew across the Lost Caribbean. Find out how rewarding the whole experience is in this review of Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew.

Aug 17, 2023

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Aug 17, 2023

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is an excellent game. With its wonderfully realized fantasy pirate setting, it instantly pulls you into its world, and with a combination of tight and perfectly implemented mechanics, excellently designed stealth sandboxes, and a colourful cast of characters that's an absolute blast to play as, it delivers a consistently fun and inventive adventure where the stealth, tactics, and experimentation never lose any of their charm, right up until the credits roll.

Aug 16, 2023

If you love stealth and strategy games, here's a must-play adventure so allow me to introduce Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew.

Aug 17, 2023

Superb squad-based stealth strategy that embraces the magic of save-scumming.

Aug 16, 2023

The definitive example of the stealth strategy game and a worthy swansong for developer Mimimi Games, as they deliver a charming and surprisingly accessible pirate swashbuckler.

Dec 21, 2023

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a challenging tactical game with a fun story and characterful crew. The varied missions do a good job of giving you plenty of options for how to tackle them, leaning into different crew abilities. There's a few rough edges, but  Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew’s treasure hunt is well worth partaking in.

Aug 28, 2023

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a cerebral but hugely characterful stealth tactics game filled with creativity and depth. And fun pirate stuff.

Aug 16, 2023

The Dishonored games are some of my absolute favorite games of all time, and the same could be said for the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy for movies. I don’t know if Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew has effectively communicated that its world is a perfect meeting of these two things in the marketing, but to me, that’s the seller. While it is slow to get started and doesn’t offer the variety of options that Dishonored or Hitman does, Shadow Gambit is a smart meeting of tactical strategy and stealth with a dose of immersive sim and an outstanding aesthetic. And you get to be an undead magical p...

Aug 16, 2023

With mildly eldritch themes, eccentric characters and tongue-in-cheek humour reminiscent of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew has a little something for every type of player. It's not perfect, but Shadow Gambit is just plain fun, and if it can convince a gung-ho, guns blazing player like me to give patience a stealth a go, I think a lot of other gamers out there would do well to dip their toes into these waters.

May 7, 2025