The cherry blossoms are falling over Kumo, and its rulers are cruel. Play a shinobi in a moonlit Japanese castle town: slip through lantern-lit streets, run the rooftops, climb castle walls and strike from the dark. Six missions take you from silencing a corrupt magistrate and stealing a merchant’s ledger to freeing a captured ally, thinning the officials at a lantern festival, assassinating the daimyo in his keep and escaping the castle once it wakes. Stay unseen and they never know you were there. Get seen, and it is steel against steel.
How to play
- Move: W A S D, Shift run, C crouch. Shadows hide you: the light gem bottom left shows how visible you are.
- Space jumps. Hold Space against a wall to climb onto roofs and walls.
- Click to strike. Get behind an unaware guard, or drop on one from above, to assassinate silently.
- Hold right-click to block. Block just as a guard swings to parry, then strike to finish him.
- F throws shuriken (they also put out paper lanterns), G drops a smoke bomb, Q throws a pebble to distract guards.
- E carries bodies into bushes and haystacks, opens cages and picks up items. Hidden bodies are never found.
