About the Game
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period.
Take control of a team of deadly specialists and sneak in the shadows between dozens of enemies. Choose your approach when infiltrating mighty castles, snowy mountain monasteries or hidden forest camps. Set traps, poison your opponents or completely avoid enemy contact.
The group is composed of very different personalities. Working together as a team seems impossible at first. Yet over the course of many missions, trust is won and friendships are made. The characters develop their own dynamic and each member will have to face their own personal demons.
One of the leaders of this team is Hayato, an agile ninja, who clears the way through his enemies silently, with his sword and shuriken. Samurai Mugen prefers a more powerful approach and can defeat more fiends at one time, but thus also forfeiting flexibility. Aiko is a master of camouflage when she distracts enemies disguised as a Geisha. And the street child Yuki places traps and decoys enemies towards their deadly fate. The mysterious marksman Takuma however, relies on his sniper rifle and takes care of the enemies from a distance.
The player has to carefully evaluate his options in order to master the challenging missions: how will the characters behave as a team? Which one is best equipped for each task? How can they best master the given missions? Come up with your own ingenious tactics to vanquish enemies and complete missions.

- Play as five completely different characters with their unique skill set
- Conquer seemingly impossible challenges where you are outnumbered ten to one
- Find dozens of ways to take out your opponents the way you want
- Jump from roof to roof and climb large buildings to attack the enemy from above
- Explore beautiful environments of ancient Japan in the Edo era
- Choose from three difficulty levels to match your skill
Screenshots
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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 8181738
Up to date
Greetings!
Another scroll arrived from the Imperial Palace! The shogun approved the following:
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Another scroll arrived from the Imperial Palace! The shogun approved the following:
- The addition of Turkish text language support
- Added traditional Chinese text language support
- Reworked and improved simplified Chinese text language support (with special thanks to Guang Guang)
Greetings!
The royal court at the Imperial Palace just decreed that Italian players can play the game in their native tongue!
All hail the wise Shogun!
Buon divertimento!
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The royal court at the Imperial Palace just decreed that Italian players can play the game in their native tongue!
All hail the wise Shogun!
Buon divertimento!
Hello everyone!
The team listened to your suggestions and wishes and hustled back and forth to implement them to the upcoming update. Just a little reminder: the controls can be bound freely. These are the changes and additions:
On a positive side note we are happy to let you know that we can now confirm that Italian text localization will be added to the game in early 2017. A local boxed edition will also become available which is being published and distributed by our partner Adventure Productions!
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The team listened to your suggestions and wishes and hustled back and forth to implement them to the upcoming update. Just a little reminder: the controls can be bound freely. These are the changes and additions:
Changelog (from 1.1.2. to 1.2.1):
- Added new control options:
- "Invert Camera Movement"
- "Invert Camera Rotation"
- "Invert Camera Zoom"
- "Invert Aiming"
- Set V-Sync default to 60 for new installs
- Set V-Sync in menu to 60 (independent from V-Sync setting in Video options)
- Set unknown gamepad default to not enabled (can be re-enabled in the options menu)
- Added user data backup
- Added key bindings for character multiselecting and camera dragging
- Fixed errors at game start that resulted in only showing a black screen
- Achievements completed in the demo should now complete correctly on Steam
- Eye-Tracking: SpeedUp and Fix of Bungee-Zoom
- Chinese localization reworked
- Other minor localization fixes
Italian text localization is confirmed!
On a positive side note we are happy to let you know that we can now confirm that Italian text localization will be added to the game in early 2017. A local boxed edition will also become available which is being published and distributed by our partner Adventure Productions!
Current Release
Build 8181738
Uploaded Oct 16, 2026
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
Intel i3 2nd-Generation 2.5GHz, AMD Quad-Core 2.5GHz
RAM
4 GB RAM
GPU
Nvidia GT640, AMD Radeon HD7750, 1GB Vram
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Shadow Tactics.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
CRC32
E2849881
SHA-256
6b4477621112383190e01b20e41de329e9787799062676d22a1201d82be23157
How: Right-click the downloaded file → 7-Zip / WinRAR → CRC SHA → compare with the values above.
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