GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The return of Shadowgate is almost here. Originally released on the Macintosh in 1987, Shadowgate, like many point-and-click adventures of the time, ...

Those that go looking for death often don't get rewarded for it. Recognising this imbalance, Zojoi will reward Shadowgate players that discover novel ways to be offed by the castle's defences. The ...

Shadowgate is unapologetically retro, bringing the difficulty of the original Shadowgate into 2014 and barely softening the blow in the process. It’s fantastic ...

Zojoi's Shadowgate remake isn't exactly a rehash of the adventure game released in the late '80s, but it does share one big similarity: death, death and more death. Shadowgate is Zojoi's crowd-funded ...

HOW MANY WAYS TO DIE IN SHADOWGATE? LET US COUNT THE WAYS... With just one week before the launch of the re-imagined Shadowgate, adventurers will need to drum up their courage as they venture into the ...

Game developers like torturing people. Or at least they seemed to enjoy doing it more often back in the 80s, when a game over meant something. The development of the new modernized and expanded ...

Twenty-seven years ago, Shadowgate was known for two things: difficulty and death. The former was a byproduct of being a graphic adventure game; without the ease of looking up solutions on the ...

Thanks to Ron Gilbert and Return to Monkey Island, it feels like classic adventure games could be making a minor comeback. Grim Fandango, Broken Sword, Blade Runner - the point-and-click genre boasts ...

Aside from the occasional skeleton tied to a rock, Shadowgate takes no prisoners. It’s a roleplaying adventure game in which the idea of a warm welcome is a book on a pedestal that makes the floor ...

“We enjoy killing the player,” says Karl Roelofs, a fiendish grin lighting up his face. Roelofs and his friend Dave Marsh were responsible for creating Shadowgate, one of the earliest graphical ...

Shadowgate was a brutally-hard Mac (and later NES) adventure game, where one failed puzzle could murder you and force you to start all over. The remake that Zojoi Studios has coming updates those ...

Classic adventure design takes on new weight when you are physically inside the dungeon itself. Shadowgate VR: The Mines of ...