Good evening. You're listening to Through Moves Head, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.

Joining us tonight, a blast from the past, one of the OG panelists, quarter to three, is Tom Check.

Hi, everyone. Nice to meet Mike and John. I've never talked to you guys before. I look forward to

talking to you guys about this weird game today.

We've also got freelance writer, John Bolding.

Howdy, howdy?

And we're also joined by the Thruves Ahead, Man with the Plan,

shadow council member, Mike Gillis.

Hi.

So today we're going to be talking about a very strange game called Shadow Empire from VR designs,

published by Slytherin.

And it is, well, it's still technically the winter of wargaming.

So arguably, this is a war game., so arguably this is a war game.

But it's not just a war game.

It's also a 4X strategy game.

But also, it's a role-playing game.

It's a relationship manager.

It's a narrative progen-in-gen.

Tom, what is Shadow Empire? Shadow Empire is everything that you just described, Rob, but most importantly, it is a unique strategy game, pretty much created,

I would say, from whole cloth. All of us here have been playing

civilization clones as far as 4Xs go for pretty much as long as we've been playing video games,

I'm assuming. You know, I pick up a game like Planet Fall, which I've been playing a lot of

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