Using the same graphical interface as Deja Vu, Shadowgate is an adventure game set in a fantasy world. Players take the part of an adventurer sent to the ancient keep of Shadowgate on a quest to find a mystic artifact known as the Staff of Ages and stop the evil Warlock Lord from summoning a horrific demon known as the Behemoth. However, Shadowgate has become infested with the Warlock Lord's demonic minions, not to mention the castle's still functional booby-traps.

Unlike Deja Vu, death comes at the protagonist suddenly, unexpectedly and, most of all, often. Such simple acts as pulling the wrong switch or opening the wrong door can cause the hero to be skewered by a booby-trap or disemboweled by a monster. If the player character's torch burns out (this happens quite regularly) and the player forgets to light a new one, the protagonist will trip in the dark and break his neck.

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Shadowgate	NES	$3.58
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Kill me once, then kill me twice, then kill me once again.	PCGamer77 (3027)
A step way back	D Michael (221)
Gateway game	Christina Nordlander (26)

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The Press Says

Consoles Plus	Sep, 1991	94 out of 100	94
Interface	1991	91 out of 100	91
All Game Guide	2007		90
1UP!	Jun 08, 2002	89 out of 100	89
Nintendojo	1999	8.9 out of 10	89
Joystick (French)	Dec, 1991	87 out of 100	87
Jeuxvideo.com	May 18, 2010	16 out of 20	80
RPGFan	Jul 17, 2000	75 out of 100	75
Mean Machines	Aug, 1991	26 out of 100	26

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Trivia

Inform port

Programmer David Griffith re-implemented an entirely text-only port of this game in Inform, available (with source!) at his website, reviewed in SPAG #36.

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