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Shadow's End

Build and lead a mercenary warband through a dangerous fantasy world in this RPG/strategy hybrid. Recruit companions, manage morale, explore hostile regions, develop specialized builds, and survive large-scale real-time tactical battles.

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About the Game

Build a Warband. Survive a Dangerous World.

Shadow’s End is a warband-based RPG/strategy hybrid that combines open-world exploration, companion recruitment, progression systems, and real-time tactical combat.

Begin your journey with only two survivors and gradually grow a mercenary company capable of facing increasingly deadly enemies. Recruit companions with unique classes, traits, and personalities, equip them with powerful weapons and armor, and shape specialized builds through a flexible progression system.

Travel across the world of Akaria, explore hostile regions, encounter dynamic events, manage morale within your warband, and fight for survival in large-scale real-time battles.

Recruit and Grow Your Warband

Recruit companions from cities, outposts, and dangerous regions across the world. Every character can develop differently depending on their class, attributes, equipment, and chosen abilities.

Build a balanced warband featuring:

  • heavily armored frontline fighters

  • agile archers and hunters

  • powerful mages

  • hybrid support specialists

Develop your roster through equipment upgrades, specialization paths, profession talents, and unique character traits.

Real-Time Tactical Combat

Command your warband in fast-paced real-time battles where positioning, timing, and unit composition can decide the outcome of a fight.

Use melee fighters to hold the line, support your team with magic and status effects, or overwhelm enemies with ranged attacks and coordinated abilities.

Face increasingly dangerous enemies ranging from hostile bandits and soldiers to massive creatures and powerful bosses.

Flexible Character Progression

Shape specialized character builds through:

  • class progression

  • attributes

  • skills

  • equipment

  • profession talents

Discover rare weapons, armor, and magical equipment that can dramatically influence combat strategies and playstyles.

Morale, Events, and Survival

Your warband is more than a collection of units.

Dynamic events, character traits, and morale systems influence how companions react to the world and to each other. Difficult decisions, dangerous encounters, and losses on the battlefield can shape the future of your company.

Manage resources, strengthen your group, and keep your warband alive as the world grows increasingly hostile.

Explore the World of Akaria

Travel through forests, ruins, settlements, and dangerous frontiers while uncovering hidden treasures, legendary characters, quests, and powerful enemies.

Trade between cities, recruit new companions, and prepare your warband for increasingly large-scale conflicts as darkness spreads across the realm.

Key Features

  • Warband-based RPG/strategy gameplay

  • Real-time tactical combat

  • Recruitable companions with unique traits

  • Morale and dynamic event systems

  • Flexible class and progression systems

  • Large-scale battles and dangerous boss encounters

  • Open-world exploration and quests

  • Equipment, loot, and specialization systems