Shadowgate

Platform : Nintendo Entertainment System

Publisher : Kemco

Release date : 31 March 1989

Category : Adventure

Game description

Shadowgate was another one of the Macventure games ported to the NES. It takes a more medieval style in a castle, as opposed to Uninvited, which was a haunted house exploration.

Like the other Macventures, you can examine and interact with the environment, pick up items, use them, and only in Shadowgate and Uninvited (not Deja Vu), you can learn and use spells, among other things.

The objective is to defeat the evil wizard, and you have to traverse the Shadowgate, picking up useful items, avoiding traps, (dying a million times), using keys to unlock doors, dealing with dangerous monsters, all of which are some of the many kinds of puzzles in this game, along with the other Macventure games, depending on the style of which.

Solving the puzzles is a lot of fun, and like I said with Uninvited, this is a great game, and though it's very different from what you probably typically play, I would highly recommend giving this a try!

4 Hacks

Title	Description	Author	Category	Version	Date
Shadowgate Mouse Hack	Do you like Shadowgate? Do you hate the D-pad controls? Then this hack is for you! Just use your ...	HonkeyKong	Improvement	1.2	16 May 2023
Shadowgate Swedish Verbs Fixed	Shadowgate is one of the few NES games that got released with Swedish in-game text. Unfortunately th...	BobSchneeder45	Improvement	1.0	30 September 2020
Shadowgate Classic	A complete graphical facelift for Shadowgate. All rooms have been redesigned. Enhances games grap...	Magnus Nilsson	Improvement	1.0	05 April 2015
Shadowgate Font Improvement	This is a simple 8x8 font improvement for Shadowgate on the 8-bit NES.	GhettoFabulous	Improvement	1.0	05 November 2003

1 Translations

Title	Language	Description	Author	Category	Version	Date
Shadowgate	Portuguese	Complete and fully tested Brazilian Portuguese translation for Shadowgate[NES].	Zafarion	Fully Playable	1.0	15 February 2015

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