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Our take on Shadow Watcher

The game departs from a straightforward action-RPG structure by making varied skill use central to combat, including counters, pursuits, backstabs, and combos. Maze exploration and the search for betrayal clues sit alongside its battles rather than serving only as a route between fights.

What is Shadow Watcher?

Shadow Watcher is a third-person action RPG set on Yatdis, a continent where humans, orcs, and elves have lived peacefully.

A watcher betrays the order to gain dark power, awakening forces that threaten the continent. Players control a female watcher and fight through the crisis using active and passive abilities. Combat skills include assassination, backstabbing, rebounding, counterattacks, pursuits, combos, and other unlockable abilities. Enemies include close-combat fighters, ranged attackers, magic users, and giant creatures, each with different attack characteristics. Maze areas add exploration, while the plot guides the search for clues about the betrayer.

How Shadow Watcher plays

01Unlockable abilities

The combat system includes active and passive skills such as assassinations, backstabs, counters, pursuits, and combos.

02Varied enemy types

Opponents include close-combat, ranged, magic, and giant-creature enemies with different attack characteristics.

03Maze exploration

Maze areas accompany the plot-led search for clues about the betrayer.

04Fantasy setting

The story takes place on Yatdis, where humans, orcs, and elves live before dark forces awaken.

Shadow Watcher compared to similar games

Shadow Watcher combines third-person combat, unlockable active and passive skills, maze exploration, and a story about a betrayer. Ghost of a Tale is also an action RPG, but focuses on a mouse minstrel in an animal-only medieval world, with exploration, stealth, disguises, and conversations.

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