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Shadows Behind the Throne 2

76% positive of 47 Steam reviews

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Released
2021
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam, itch.io

Made by Bobby Two Hands.

About the game

An apocalyptic grand strategy game, in which you take the role of the forces of darkness, trying to bring an end to a fantasy world. Complete with complex internal politics by NPC factions and wide ranges of strategies and types of doom to choose between.

Tagged by players

  • God Game
  • Grand Strategy
  • Lovecraftian
  • Conspiracy
  • Political Sim
  • Turn-Based Strategy
  • Diplomacy
  • Destruction
  • Horror
  • Strategy
  • Hand-drawn
  • Simulation

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    Summary: Dev abandoned this project, there is a free version, mechanically the same, on the dev's itch.io. Flat out, I don't dislike this game, however the developer has decided to abandon this game whole cloth in favour of working on "Shadows of Forbidden Gods". The reasoning behind this, (in short), straight from the dev's itch.io: "To improve the game, we have to make the hard decision to completely rebuild the…

    18 h played when written. 96 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Remember "That Which Sleeps" the kickstarter game that promised that you could play as Cthulhu and corrupt the world and a million other things, but then the dev took the money and ran and never delivered. Implausibly Shadows is not only the game that was promised, but it delivers. The graphics are a little off and the interface is a little confusing, but goddamn is it fun to corrupt and dismantle several…

    52 h played when written. 68 found it helpful.

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