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Hooded Horse picks up Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew to give Mimimi’s final game the support it deserves

Manor Lords publisher will ensure long-term availability

Marco Wutz

Mimimi Games / Hooded Horse

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew was the best stealth tactics game of 2023 and a swan song for Mimimi Games – the Munich-based developer closed shop after releasing the game, as most of the leadership team felt burnt out and didn’t want to deal with another long development cycle. With its developer having shut down, Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew was simply floating out there on the endless ocean of the market, but now a new crew has come aboard.

Hooded Horse, the publisher behind titles like Manor Lords and Against the Storm, announced its purchase of the publishing rights for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew on all platforms.

Although the tactics game won’t be receiving any new updates from another studio, being picked up by Hooded Horse ensures its long-term availability on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S – and a frequent participation in Steam Sales.

“We are honored and humbled that Mimimi chose us to be a part of Shadow Gambit’s journey,” commented Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender. “This game is the pinnacle of stealth strategy games, and we’re looking forward to helping it maintain the long-term success it deserves.”

Mimimi Games co-founder Johannes Roth said: “Shadow Gambit is in its final form, and we’re excited to be partnering with Hooded Horse for its ongoing commercial needs. We’re very impressed by their approach to indie publishing and are confident they will help the game reach even more players.”

This appears to be a happy end for all parties involved.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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