Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is one of the year’s best releases as far as I’m concerned, but its arrival was bittersweet, given developer Mimimi Games announced it was shutting up shop shortly after. Since then, the team has wrapped up work on two final DLC drops introducing new characters, islands, and more – but it turns out that wasn’t quite everything it had in store: in a surprise final update, Mimimi has now launched an expansive “modding tool” for PC.
Shadow Gambit launched back in August, and saw Mimimi revisiting its beloved stealth-tactics genre – which it’d already bought to life with impressive flair in Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and Desperatdos 3 – with an instantly appealing pirate fantasy twist. The result, as I wrote in my four star review was a blend of “raucous, high seas adventure and cerebral, slow-paced stealth” that proved to be a “joyous mastery of a very particular form”.
Shortly after its release, Mimimi announced Shadow Gambit would be the studio’s last project, as its “increasingly ambitious games” had taken a “heavy personal toll on us and our families”. Two final DLC releases for Shadow Gambit were to bring the studio’s activities to a close, but it’s now surprised fans with a “very final parting gift”: an expansive “modding tool” designed to enable players to create their own custom mods.
