Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun overview

Overview

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun comes from Mimimi Games and is published by Daedalic Entertainment. It arrived on Steam on Dec 6, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, DualShock Controller Support, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on TV, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 167 players at 12 September 2026 - 06:26:34 UTC, with a tracked peak near 4,985. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 96% positive across 38,213 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is available in 13 languages including:

1 regional rating boards including usk

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun has sold up to 1,200,000 units and has 30,826 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $26,800,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun overview details

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Buzz Join our Discord Additional content available! About the Game Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. Take control of a team of deadly specialists and sneak in the shadows between dozens of enemies. Choose your approach when infiltrating mighty castles, snowy mountain monasteries or hidden forest camps. Set traps, poison your opponents or completely avoid enemy contact. The group is composed of very different personalities. Working together as a team seems impossible at first. Yet over the course of many missions, trust is won and friendships are made. The characters develop their own dynamic and each member will have to face their own personal demons. One of the leaders of this team is Hayato, an agile ninja, who clears the way through his enemies silently, with his sword and shuriken. Samurai Mugen prefers a more powerful approach and can defeat more fiends at one time, but thus also forfeiting flexibility. Aiko is a master of camouflage when she distracts enemies disguised as a Geisha. And the street child Yuki places traps and decoys enemies towards their deadly fate. The mysterious marksman Takuma however, relies on his sniper rifle and takes care of the enemies from a distance. The player has to carefully evaluate his options in order to master the challenging missions: how will the characters behave as a team? Which one is best equipped for each task? How can they best master the given missions? Come up with your own ingenious tactics to vanquish enemies and complete missions. Play as five completely different…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is listed as a game with $3.99 (90% off from $39.99). It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, DualShock Controller Support, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on TV, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 167 players at 12 September 2026 - 06:26:34 UTC, a tracked peak of 4,985, and 96% positive reviews.

Overview tags

StealthStrategyTacticalNinjaReal Time TacticsSingleplayerIndieIsometricAssassinHistoricalActionRTSDifficultViolentAtmospheric

Content descriptors

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a tactical game about a team of specialists who are tasked with eliminating their opponents by assassinating or sabotaging them. Depending on your style of game play, violence is present: For most missions, there are non-lethal ways to neutralize your opponents, but if you choose to kill them to reach your goal, there will be blood.

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