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About Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is an all-new stealth strategy game set during an alternate history of the Golden Age of Piracy, where you assemble a pirate crew and embrace magical powers. The Curse of Lost Souls haunts the island chain known as the Lost Caribbean, now under the control of the Inquisition, whose forces despise the supernatural and use soul-devouring fire to hunt cursed pirates like you.

Building your crew begins with the cursed pirate Afia and a search for the legendary Black Pearls needed to revive a crew of your own. Each of your eight shipmates is a playable character with an individual personality and unique supernatural powers, so you might launch a friend or foe with Gaelle's magical cannon, open a portal with Mr. Mercury's soul anchor, or dash across spacetime for split-second stealth attacks using Afia's mythical sword.

Outsmarting your enemies means infiltrating Inquisition fortresses, sneaking behind their lines and cleverly combining your crew's magical skills to eliminate a variety of foes through carefully considered tactics, delivering that satisfying feeling of a plan clicking perfectly into place. Your ship, The Red Marley, serves as your home base between missions. Blending adventure, RPG and strategy, this stealth tactics title on PC rewards patience, planning and mastermind-level improvisation.