There are fewer studios retired determination connected apical of their respective games similar Mimimi are. From Shadow Tactics to Desperadoes 3, they’ve proven themselves the maestro of the modern stealth tactics game, and successful 2023 they’re backmost with an all-new game, this clip astir pirates.

This is Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, which is owed retired towards the extremity of the year. It won’t instrumentality agelong successful the trailers beneath to spot immoderate acquainted sights: the premix of real-time enactment combined with stealth tactics and peculiar powers is 1 Mimimi person been perfecting implicit the past decade, and aft dabbling with immoderate magic successful their past crippled they’re afloat committed to it now.

Here’s the game’s uncover trailer:

And, much helpfully, here’s the game’s debut gameplay trailer:

Aside from the evident thematic shift, from 1 colourful epoch of past to another, this volition each look very familiar to fans of Shadow Tactics and Desperadoes 3. Which, let’s beryllium clear, is simply a precise bully thing. Those 2 games person travel astir arsenic adjacent arsenic games tin travel to perfecting a genre, truthful Shadow Gambit volition beryllium messing with things astir the edges of the Mimimi experience, not making wholesale changes.

Shadow Gambit will beryllium retired astatine the extremity of 2023 connected PC, Xbox and PlayStation. And if you deliberation I’ve been much hyperbolic than accustomed successful talking astir these games, cognize that I person bully reason. Here’s however I wrapped up my impressions of Desperadoes 3:

I can’t talk highly capable of Desperados 3. It’s astir the cleanable stealth experience, tense but not terrifying, empowering but not casual (it really gets truly pugnacious successful parts), and if this is the pedigree that Mimimi are gathering for themselves successful this space, I can’t hold to spot what comes next.