Nintendo Shadow Drops Fire Emblem Shadows, a New Smartphone Spin-Off with Social Deduction

Surprise! Nintendo has announced Fire Emblem Shadows, a caller free-to-play smartphone crippled that's disposable close now.

Released overnight for some iOS and Android devices, Fire Emblem Shadows mixes the series' accepted tactical role-playing gameplay with societal deduction elements. Which 1 of your squad of heroes is secretly a traitor? Or volition you take the way of shadiness yourself?

Fire Emblem Shadows is simply a astonishing announcement from Nintendo, which has not launched a caller smartphone crippled successful years, since its collaboration with Pokémon Go creator Niantic backmost successful 2021 to motorboat Pikmin Bloom. That said, Nintendo's erstwhile Fire Emblem Heroes mobile crippled was incredibly lucrative — launched successful 2017 with gacha-powered gameplay, it earned implicit $650 cardinal successful 3 years — truthful a caller spin-off would marque sense.

"Choose airy oregon shadow, past prosecute successful strategical combat featuring 2 disciples of airy and 1 disciple of shadow," reads the game's blurb. "After an archetypal battle, players ballot to find who they judge is the treacherous disciple of shadow. Whether the disciples of airy tin correctly observe the traitor — oregon the disciple of shadiness tin successfully deceive the others — volition dictate however the adjacent conflict unfolds. Expect the unexpected and beryllium wary of enemies and allies alike."

Artwork shows airy and shadiness versions of acquainted characters specified arsenic Lyn, who is disposable during the game's motorboat play and volition beryllium unlocked faster if you upgrade to a premium mentation of the game's archetypal conflict pass.

If you fancy giving it a go, you tin get the download started from the iPhone App Store oregon Google Play now.

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