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About Shadow Tactics - Aiko's Choice

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Shadow Tactics - Aiko's Choice is a brand-new standalone expansion to the beloved stealth tactics game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, set in Japan around the Edo period. It focuses on one of the main game's protagonists, the kunoichi adept Aiko, a master of camouflage who distracts enemies while disguised as a Geisha, and sends her to hunt down the ghosts of her past.

Though Aiko believed she had left her old life behind, her former sensei, the cunning spymaster Lady Chiyo, reappears from the shadows to challenge her. Together with her deadly companions, Aiko sets out to confront that past across an expansion featuring three fully fledged main missions in brand-new environments, along with three shorter interlude missions.

In the style of the main game, you take control of a team of deadly specialists and sneak through the shadows between dozens of enemies, choosing your approach as you infiltrate enemy bases in hidden forest camps or lively Edo-period towns. You can set traps, poison and distract your opponents, or avoid enemy contact entirely, carefully planning every move and devising your own ingenious tactics. As an indie strategy title on PC, Aiko's Choice extends the acclaimed stealth formula with a personal story at its center.