If you haven’t played Skulls of the Shogun in any form over the past six years, we still can still heartily recommend the single-player campaign as a generous and devilishly fun slice of turn-based strategy action that perfectly suits the Switch, particularly in handheld mode.

Skulls of the Shogun2013

Skulls of the Shogun
2013 17-BIT80Great
Playtime
ModerateTypically 15 hours
Playable on
- Steam DeckVerified
- Steam MachineVerified
Available on
- $9.99
- $9.99
Game modes
- 2–4 players
Details
Overview
Skulls of the Shogun is a turn-based tactics video game developed by 17-BIT. The game is inspired by Advance Wars and features turn-based combat between undead samurai.
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Reception
Press80
Players87
GreatGreat- Metacritic81from 48 reviews
- OpenCritic60from 3 reviews
Lacking personality as it is, and with its main selling point - the multiplayer - being an apparent bust, it's very hard to understand who would actually want to buy into this version of Skulls of the Shogun.
Its attempted revolution of turn-based tactics isn't quite as practical as it first seems but this is still an impressively fun, and funny, strategy game.



















