Shadowgate Special Edition

Shadowgate is a first-person point-and-click adventure in which you play the Seed of Prophecy and venture into a living castle to defeat the Warlock Lord. You explore dangerous rooms, use items from your inventory, map your route and solve puzzles, with perilous locations and many ways to die along the way. This reimagining by the original development team rebuilds the game with new rooms, puzzles and interactive objects, while retaining familiar locations and elements of the original.

Explore the castle

The castle contains illustrated rooms, both new and familiar, and a mapping system helps you chart your progress. You can also take on The Dread Pumpkin Quest, a mini-quest to find and free the Dread Pumpkin. Dramatic cut-scenes carry the story, while the sound design combines hundreds of atmospheric and puzzle-based effects with a digitally orchestrated score by Rich Douglas that changes with gameplay.

Choose how to play

The interface offers a modern wheel-based icon command system, classic on-screen commands and Immersive mode, which hides the UI and lets you explore using customizable hotkeys. You can also create key binds and lock commands and keys, and mix and match the available options.

Four difficulty levels, from novice to expert, change the gameplay and puzzle structure. Ironman mode disables saves and requires you to finish the game in one try.

Retro mode

Retro mode recreates the presentation of the 1989 version with pixelated graphics, Hiroyuki Masuno’s original NES chiptunes, NES-style room transitions and text in a retro format. The Classic command system can be paired with retro graphics, soundtrack, text box and room transitions.