In the year 1615, a new Shogun rises to power in Japan and strives to bring peace to the realm. In his battle against rebellion he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.

Part of this team is Hayato, an agile Ninja who artfully defeats his enemies one by one from the cover of the shadows. Samurai Mugen fights with more strength. As the tank of the group, he can take on several enemies at once, at the expense of his agility. Aiko the Geisha is a master of camouflage and distraction, trapper Yuki is specialized in traps and deceptions. Takuma, being the eldest of the group, relies on his sniper skills for ranged attacks.

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 environments? Come up with your own ingenious tactics to vanquish enemies and complete missions.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun will be available for as a digital download from the PlayStation Store and Xbox Games Store, as well as a boxed retail edition on both platforms, starting 28th July 2017 in Europe, and August 1, 2017 in North America.

Also launching on the same day, the demo version of the game will let players work their way through the first map in its entirety, and also a short glimpse of the second, giving a hands-on preview of the absorbing atmosphere, detailed characters, challenging missions and slick controls that await in the full game.

Frieder Mielke, Technical Director at Mimimi Productions, says: “Porting Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun to console was a big challenge. We wanted to make sure that console players would be able to enjoy the exact same experience as on PC, and I believe we’ve achieved that. But no one can be a better judge of that than the players, and that's why we also decided to release a demo version for both platforms, so that every console player can try the game for free and decide for themselves.”

Key Features:

• Comeback of a genre: Real-time tactics with stealth elements
• Ninja, Samurai, Geisha, Trapper and Sniper – five simultaneously playable characters with unique and versatile skills
• Challenging missions, worthy of a strategic mastermind
• Thirteen missions with a free moving isometric camera perspective
• Beautiful environments of the Edo period of Ancient Japan

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is currently available on PC for £34.99 through Steam & GOG.