Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun beta patch dramatically improves performance and load times

This game is on my wishlist, I am really looking forward to buying it at some time. Curiously enough, at some time I bought the game "Satellite Reign" because I found it beautiful and it was super cheap, but I thought it was a simple action game, or in the best case a dumbed-down action RPG. After trying to play it a few times and being killed at every minute, I let it down for a while, and at some time I started looking at some gameplays and saw that the game is incredibly sophisticated, complex and rich, and THEN I started using tactical and strategic thinking and now I am addicted to it, enjoying every little moment, and somehow upset because it offers "only" about 90 hours of gameplay. So, I saw that Shadow Tactics is pretty much the same kind of game (a weird mix of RPG + RTS) and I will buy this game to fuel my newly acquired addiction. Any of you know any good games in that style for Linux besides Satellite Reign and Shadow Tactics?


Last edited by Patola at 21 February 2018 at 8:15 pm UTC

Wow great! I was waiting to play this, I have tried the GOG demo but found it too laggy, I hope they update that one too so that I can see if it is worth buying now. Great!

PatolaThis game is on my wishlist, I am really looking forward to buying it at some time. Curiously enough, at some time I bought the game "Satellite Reign" because I found it beautiful and it was super cheap, but I thought it was a simple action game, or in the best case a dumbed-down action RPG. After trying to play it a few times and being killed at every minute, I let it down for a while, and at some time I started looking at some gameplays and saw that the game is incredibly sophisticated, complex and rich, and THEN I started using tactical and strategic thinking and now I am addicted to it, enjoying every little moment, and somehow upset because it offers "only" about 90 hours of gameplay. So, I saw that Shadow Tactics is pretty much the same kind of game (a weird mix of RPG + RTS) and I will buy this game to fuel my newly acquired addiction. Any of you know any good games in that style for Linux besides Satellite Reign and Shadow Tactics?

I own both and while on the surface they may look similar, they are totally different genre imo. Satellite Reign has rpg/progression components and the world is more "sandboxy", and people compare it with the old Syndicate (I haven't played it) while Shadow Tactics is a Commandos-like: each level is carefully designed, enemies have a predictable behaviour and everything is laid out almost like a puzzle that you have to solve using specific abilities of each of your characters.

There are not many games like those, let alone in linux. I would take a look at Commandos 1+2; they are old games but still let themselves play very well and at least the first works in Wine without a problem. Also "Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive" and "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood"

Liam can you please check if they included a 64bit exec with this? Last I recall the game was 32bit only.

It never worked for me properly (doesn't save anything), which I suspect is an infamous lack of LFS bug that hits XFS filesystems because the game is 32-bit. I was a bit lazy reporting it to developers, though I should do it really.


Last edited by Shmerl at 21 February 2018 at 11:16 pm UTC. Edited 2 times.

Avehicle7887Liam can you please check if they included a 64bit exec with this? Last I recall the game was 32bit only.

Yeah, 64-bit version would be very welcome. Before developers said they had no interest in doing it, because it required a lot reworking for them.


Last edited by Shmerl at 21 February 2018 at 11:20 pm UTC

This was my GotY for 2016. Great to see Mimimi continuing to support their game and I look forward to seeing what they develop next.

Wow, great news. I've been meaning to go back into it, and this just inspired me.

Al3s

PatolaThis game is on my wishlist, I am really looking forward to buying it at some time. Curiously enough, at some time I bought the game "Satellite Reign" because I found it beautiful and it was super cheap, but I thought it was a simple action game, or in the best case a dumbed-down action RPG. After trying to play it a few times and being killed at every minute, I let it down for a while, and at some time I started looking at some gameplays and saw that the game is incredibly sophisticated, complex and rich, and THEN I started using tactical and strategic thinking and now I am addicted to it, enjoying every little moment, and somehow upset because it offers "only" about 90 hours of gameplay. So, I saw that Shadow Tactics is pretty much the same kind of game (a weird mix of RPG + RTS) and I will buy this game to fuel my newly acquired addiction. Any of you know any good games in that style for Linux besides Satellite Reign and Shadow Tactics?

I own both and while on the surface they may look similar, they are totally different genre imo. Satellite Reign has rpg/progression components and the world is more "sandboxy", and people compare it with the old Syndicate (I haven't played it) while Shadow Tactics is a Commandos-like: each level is carefully designed, enemies have a predictable behaviour and everything is laid out almost like a puzzle that you have to solve using specific abilities of each of your characters.

There are not many games like those, let alone in linux. I would take a look at Commandos 1+2; they are old games but still let themselves play very well and at least the first works in Wine without a problem. Also "Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive" and "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood"

Thanks for the explanation. Maybe you know these other games I am considering? "The Masterplan" and "The Dwarves", and they also have a Linux port. Some people said Wasteland 2 (which I just bought on that humble bundle classic, but haven't played yet) also works that way.

PatolaSome people said Wasteland 2 (which I just bought on that humble bundle classic, but haven't played yet) also works that way.

Wasteland 2 is a classic cRPG, much like a modern Fallout 2. Not surprising, as the original Wasteland is said to have been a big inspiration for Fallout. While the combat is turn-based and tactical, there's a lot more to the game. I loved Wasteland 2, but it doesn't seem similar to Satellite Reign or Shadow Tactics.