Shadows Behind the Throne 2

Shadows Behind the Throne 2 puts you in the role of an Ancient Evil seeking to bring a fantasy world under your shadow or destroy it. At first, the nations and nobles are unaware of you, giving you time to infiltrate their politics with agents and world-changing powers.

A world of intrigue

The world is a living system of nobles who quarrel and scheme, and nations that rise and fall. You can work through the political sphere to raise an enthralled noble to the top of the aristocracy, while moving agents between the cities of that nation. Your agents evade hostile agents and spread madness and shadow. Beneath the waves, you can also build a secret army of Deep Ones and wait for the time to strike.

Manipulate suspicion

The game’s systems revolve around NPCs’ suspicions, fears and knowledge. You can exploit those fears by creating a threat and then being elected as their “saviour,” or frame rival agents with false evidence to get them exiled. You can also provoke pointless civil wars over economic issues, weakening armies so you can fight them piecemeal.

Choose an apocalypse

You can combine a wide range of strategies to bring about the apocalypse you choose. Freeze the world slowly to end all life, establish a dark empire of shadow under your rule, consume all flesh into an Unholy Flesh, or transform a chosen few into fishlike Deep Ones and the rest into fish food.