Shadowgate
- August 21, 2014
- Zojoi
Shadowgate hates you and wants you dead, but fans wouldn’t have it any other way.
Shadowgate is a point-and-click adventure game, and one of the original MacVenture titles, celebrated on various gaming platforms. As "The Seed of Prophecy", players explore a perilous living castle, solving countless puzzles and facing numerous ways to die, in order to defeat the Warlock Lord and save the kingdom. The original development team has now reunited to create a full re-imagining of this classic game.
Reviews
- graphics226 mentions
- 49 % positive mentions
- 49 % neutral mentions
- 2 % negative mentions
- music205 mentions
- 46 % positive mentions
- 51 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- story138 mentions
- 40 % positive mentions
- 60 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- gameplay69 mentions
- 14 % positive mentions
- 83 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- atmosphere46 mentions
- 70 % positive mentions
- 30 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- replayability34 mentions
- 18 % positive mentions
- 76 % neutral mentions
- 6 % negative mentions
- funny14 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- grinding7 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- ads4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- character development2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- optimization2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
Shadowgate Review
Shadowgate on Nintendo Switch is very much the same reboot we saw on PC back in 2014, taking the same mix of puzzles, difficulty and exploration the original was famed for and mixing it up with some enhanced conundrums and much more appealing presentation. Even with the updated visuals, Shadowgate still has a clunky UI, however, the button mapping on Switch does help negate this issue a little. Problems aside, this is a faithful remake that retro fans will lap up, although newer players might find this elder gaming statesman has teeth that bite a little too hard.
60%Shadowgate Review
If you are a fan of the series or the enre you will find this title to be instantly intuitive to you and you will likely slip back into the old mind set. If you are new to the genre and are interested I would suggest you give it a go. If you are not interested in adventuring point and clicks This game has no real departure from the original formula so I do not think there will be anything to convert you.
70%Shadowgate review
“Shadowgate is a loving recreation of a seminal point-and-click adventure, with a few modern touches tacked onto a thoroughly 1987 chassis.”
60%