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SHADOW GAMBIT: THE CURSED CREW

Since 2016, Mimimi Games has been single handedly keeping the stealth tactics genre alive. Its first game, , spent years in our Top 100 off the strength of its clever cast of characters – all of did justice to one of the major games of the genre's early ‘00s heyday. This year, it released Shadow , and it's easily the studio's best work. Previous games had some quirky abilities, sure, but this time you're in charge of a band of undead pirates with a full suite of magical powers – every character widening the possibility space of how you approach the challenge ahead.

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