Shadows of Forbidden Gods
Released Jul 2023
Take on the role of a Dark Elder God and lead your agents to bring about an apocalypse in a fantasy world. Work in the shadows, avoiding the heroes who will try to stop you, as you bring about plague and famine, ice age and volcanic destruction, madness and never ending night.
91% positive · 1,058 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Evaluation
Shadows of Forbidden Gods launched into full release on July 15, 2023, after about a year and a half in Early Access. The developer noted at launch that the 1.0 release "marks the end of the roadmap, and the end of the game's core mechanics being changed," while also indicating a new god and agent were already being worked on with "no concrete plans for the future beyond that."
Following the 1.0 launch, the developer shipped Version 1.1 on September 25, 2023, adding the Broken Maker god and The Aristocrat agent. One paid DLC — "The Horrors Beneath" — was released on March 11, 2024, adding an underground map layer, new Dwarf race, and new enemy faction mechanics. This represents the only DLC in the game's store listing, and it has been released.
After the DLC launch on March 11, 2024, the most recent developer activity is a minor hotfix on April 17, 2024, which addressed an accidental mod file being bundled with a patch. There have been no further announcements, feature patches, or developer communications since that date — now over two years ago as of June 22, 2026.
The developer made no post-DLC announcements of additional planned content, roadmaps, or future expansions. The original 1.0 post explicitly framed that release as the end of the core roadmap, and the subsequent DLC appears to have been the extent of planned post-launch content. With no unreleased DLC on the store, no outstanding developer commitments, and developer communications having gone silent since April 17, 2024 — well beyond any historical update pattern — the game appears to be content-complete as of the DLC's release date.
Evidence
The Horrors Beneath DLC launched, adding an underground layer, Dwarves, and a new god-creature mechanic. No announcement of further content in the post.
Version 1.0 launch post explicitly states this marks the end of the game's roadmap and the end of core mechanics being changed, though a new god and agent were already being worked on. No concrete plans stated beyond that.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Forbidden Oak Games Limited
Achievements
35
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
A strategy game in which you attempt to bring about the apocalypse, by moving covert agents through a complex fantasy world to accomplish a wide range of schemes, plots and rituals. You start the game by bribing guards and infiltrating minor farming communities and slowly build up your forces until you are bringing about ice ages, eradicating entire nations with plague, summoning volcanoes and commanding city-devouring snake-gods.
You play a set of agents and corrupted heroes against the forces of good, the rulers and heroes of humanity, lead by the Chosen One. They may be stronger than you, and could eliminate your agents with ease, but you have the advantage of secrecy, and humans are easily turned one against each other. Why fight a war against a unified empire when you could shatter in into civil war and clean up the pieces with orcish hordes?
Complex AIs power the forces of good, and you can, if the mood takes you, play on their minds. Rulers can be driven to gold-obsessed lunatics, who will cause their people to rise up in anger at the insane taxations, dukes can be tricked into turning on their Kings by a carefully placed personal item which implies a court scandal, heroes can be driven insane by the maddening tales read in The Laughing King's Tome and the shadow can corrupt your enemies to the point where they start funding your agents instead of their own people.
Designed as a very flexible apocalypse simulator, Shadows of Forbidden Gods allows you to mix and match your toolsets with unique agents and varied effects, with the human forces responding dynamtically, levelling up their heroes to face what they believe to be the major threats.
You play a set of agents and corrupted heroes against the forces of good, the rulers and heroes of humanity, lead by the Chosen One. They may be stronger than you, and could eliminate your agents with ease, but you have the advantage of secrecy, and humans are easily turned one against each other. Why fight a war against a unified empire when you could shatter in into civil war and clean up the pieces with orcish hordes?
Complex AIs power the forces of good, and you can, if the mood takes you, play on their minds. Rulers can be driven to gold-obsessed lunatics, who will cause their people to rise up in anger at the insane taxations, dukes can be tricked into turning on their Kings by a carefully placed personal item which implies a court scandal, heroes can be driven insane by the maddening tales read in The Laughing King's Tome and the shadow can corrupt your enemies to the point where they start funding your agents instead of their own people.
Designed as a very flexible apocalypse simulator, Shadows of Forbidden Gods allows you to mix and match your toolsets with unique agents and varied effects, with the human forces responding dynamtically, levelling up their heroes to face what they believe to be the major threats.
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Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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