Skulls of the Shogun
Skulls of the Shogun is a turn-based tactics video game developed by 17-BIT. The game is inspired by Advance Wars and features turn-based combat between undead samurai.
Skulls of the Shogun is an indie developed by 17-BIT, released 30 January 2013 on Ouya, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox 360.
What Skulls of the Shogun is
Skulls of the Shogun is an indie game developed by 17-BIT and released in 2013. It is available on Ouya, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Skulls of the Shogun is a turn-based tactics video game developed by 17-Bit. The game is inspired by Advance Wars and features turn-based combat between undead samurai. Skulls of the Shogun was originally planned for a 2012 release on Xbox Live Arcade and Windows 8. Eventually it was released for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone on January 30, 2013.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 27 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Skulls of the Shogun holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Celeron 440 2.0GHz / AMD Athlon 64 3300+, 512 MB RAM and Shader Model 2.0 graphics card, Nvidia GeForce 7300 / ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Skulls of the Shogun launched on 30 January 2013, within three weeks of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, DmC: Devil May Cry, Antichamber and Dead Space 3. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, DmC: Devil May Cry, Antichamber, Dead Space 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Skulls of the Shogun yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
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