This is every Tenchu players dream - there's been a real drought of stealth games involving ninja's but this satisfies my hunger for sneaking about and there's a really nice art style to it too.

I'm a big fan of the stealth genre and I've been watching this title for a while. I was really gutted when I heard this wasn't coming to Xbox One but I decided I'd give it a go on my PC (I hardly ever buy PC games so you can guess how much I wanted it). I'm happy to say that I'm not disappointed. It's also not particularly expensive and from the few levels I've played so far, it's thoroughly worth £14.99 - £13.49 if you buy it before 11th Oct.

I've been making videos for my YouTube channel, so if you're interested in how it plays then my playlist might be worth a look:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1nCuO5R6HvEYIFZsgJK-ogvZ6T9_MLCw


*Update 6/10*
I do understand some of the negative comments in terms of comparison to Tenchu although I don't necessarily agree; it's not quite the same but it's certainly not miles apart. In my opinion Aragami hold's it's own as a unique title and has a more than competent stealth mechanic. There's definitely a more anime style to it than Tenchu and there are fewer gadgets but to me it shines in it's own way. The heavy emphasis on the use of shadows is really interesting - I've found myself using the ability to zap between shadows several times to get out of tricky situations.

Tenchu has never been on PC to my knowledge, so this is likely the closest we'll get; I'm not sure if or when we'll actually see another Tenchu on console as the license seems to have gone AWOL after the last game on the Wii.

Do you like being stealthy?
Do you like ninjas?
Do you like magical powers?
Do you like using all of the above to kill your way through levels? (although you can complete each level without killing anyone)
If you answered yes to the above this game is for you

Aragami is a game that starts off slowly, but has great asthetics, themes, and gameplay. the controls are smooth and easy to figure out while playing, and it doesn't feel as though you are being guided along with your hand held. It is a deceptively simple game since you die very easil in one hit. You have to use the shadows to move aroud, plan your actions, and use the powers gained from hidden scrolls across the levels to make your movement easier, make you more combat effective, as well as have a generally fun time with the game. That being said, your base movement speed is slower than I personally would have liked, but the speed of your sprint makes it bearable since, if you choose to kill every enemy, you can get to your next objective quickly with no worries. You can skip all the cutscenes if you wish to just play the game instead of getting immersed in the story, however the writing is well done and overall enjoyable. I recommend this game to anybody to likes steath games, but if you are more into the run and gun style of gameplay, then this probably isn't the game for you.

I want to start by saying a few things...

This game is amazing, no I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it is.

You're going to have to play this game repeteadly if you truly want to get everything from it.

If you ever feel lost in-game feel free to press down in the d-pad.

With all of that being said let me start explaining why I think this is a great game.

Aragami it's a game that clearly takes a lot of different cues from plenty of other stealth games, by the end of each level you get a grade, simillarly to how you would in Tenchu or in Dishonored, maybe even in some of the Metal Gear games, the aesthetic represents this perfectly by sharing an uncanny ressemblance to Tenchu, as well as some of the aspect of the gameplay being very similar to the ones of other games with a couple of incredible twists.

You can only refill your "power bar" by staying in the shadows, if you leave the shadows your bar, represented in the form of a white symbol in your cape, will begin depleting, it's never clear how much do you need it to be filled in order for you to use specific powers, which some people may find annoying, I personally find it as an incredible, original idea, that has been perfectly implemented in order to "combine" several different familiar stealth mechanics, now you don't only have the incentive to hide in the shadows to prevent enemies from spotting you, you also HAVE to be in the shadows in order to use your powers.

At first your powers seem really simple, but it's clear after jut staring at the upgrade menu for just a couple of seconds that the game has a treat for the player that it's willing to invest time in finding scrolls, this scrolls serve as multi-purposed tasks, some of them fill you in in certain details from the story, while at the same time giving you points to spend upgrading your character, each mission it's represented as a different chapter, it's really up to the player to decide how to tackle them and play through them, mostly after upgrading some powers, and by doing that, opening a door to different paths, as well as making some objectives a viable possibility to complete.

You see, each mission has three emblems, each and every single one of them you get them by completing the mission with some conditions, the first emblem you get for completing the mission without being spotted, ironically, one that for the most part has been easy to get, for me at least, after a couple of retries, you do not have to restart the entire mission if you get spotted, nor sometimes even restart the checkpoint, the way it works it's that the enemies have a chance to spot you if you're very close to them, or outside of the shadows, this in my opinion was necessary considering how easy the game would have been without them being able to spot you by being closer to you even while you are inside the shadows.

The most important thing it's to know that you can kill them before they sound the alarm, the condition for not getting spotted gets introduced through that, if they don't sound the alarm, you still get the emblem.

Not killing anyone in the level it's the second condition for the next emblem, this frankly is the second most easy, simply because it's easy to avoid a lot of guards, altho it is very difficult when you get spotted, because as I said before, you will have to rush some guards before they decide to whistle and alert everyone.

The last, and most difficult one, for now at the very least, it's the emblem that you get for killing everyone in the level, literally 100%, everyone, this one it's tricky to get at first because the only way that you can take out enemies right from the start, it's simply by getting very close to them, and then stabbing them with your sword releasing a small but noticable stream of blood from the wound, simillarly to how it looked in old samurai movies.

I frankly thing they've done a great job, I haven't finished the game, but i've reached the fourth chapter already, I have been rushing it, not deliberatly, it's just that the game it's soo smooth you can't help but feel the need to teleport from shadow to shadow, which by the way the "teleporting" it's pretty much like the "blink" power from Dishonored, you use it to get from one place to another, and it's your one starting power, so it's important to know that too.

The game it's pretty self explanatory by explaining itself through little cards that stop the game and walk you through the mechanics of the game, so frankly I think most people will understand how this game works.

The game IS however really challenging, mostly if you don't want to get spotted, and even if you do, you can only get hit once, so you'll have to really get into the mindset of repeating the same sections over, and over again, it's great tho, the game, the killings, the animations, the freedom of movement, everything just feels incredibly satisfiying.

I really recommend it, I watched a video on youtube about a guy complaining about performance issues, but so far the game's been running great, it looks great, it has a ton of options, I haven't tried mouse and keyboard, so sorry about that, but the game it's playing great so far with a ps4 controller connected through InputMapper. It has a lot of graphical options, heck it even has a freaking fov slider, How many third person games have that?

There are problems, mostly that I have with the story, I don't like the way that the story is presented, and it seems really ambigous, and abtract in the way it's told, so far at the very least. It's fine tho, it's not really such a massive complaint because you can skip every cutscene with the hold of a button, plus it's not annoying or anything like that, I like it's presence, I just wished maybe a little more effort would have gone to that.

Best $20 I have spent on steam in awhile I am enjoying it. Fun punishing stealth game play.

Wow, really fun game! my expectation for this game were low and i was wrong on so many level, its fun and hard at the same time but not too hard you just have to be careful and i love it....even got 21:9 support! great game unity would buy again ill go with a 9/10 the only thing that bother me is the shaking when you kill someone but i got used to it after the first 30 min and textures could been a little more high res but there good enought for what it is at a 20$ tbh only the ground is a bit blury ish :p

its a basic form of dishonored with a really cool theme, the answer is yes yes and yes

Aragami is a well put together Stealth game, it feels good to kill, theres enough challenge for it be fun, and then it looks awesome, Do you like sneaking around, killing guards? this one is really awesome, and feels awesome, worth the price.

Heres some gameplay
https://youtu.be/k_xdBbE5Grk

Aragami is the only game to date that let me feel like the original Assassins Creed, but better.

This game is really really good, as of the writing of this review it just launched with some funny store fails and it crashed on me quiting once but that can be overseen regarding what this game offers.

Graphics:
I just love the style. Well done models, sometimes you do get a wierd animation with the raven or killing enemies that have just seen you but overall it looks just awsome. The 'visions' have an interessting art style but the rest is great, and you dont spend to much time in visions.

Gameplay:
Features not really that many ways to really choose from which to play (akward sentence), but it has just so massive (for its size and gameplay) maps that you can really choose when to do what and as we all know 2 to the power of increasing numbers gets greater really fast, its like this in the game. An cool skill set from which too use, nice upgrades and arts to learn combined with the really big maps and freedom of choice you get makes for an stunningly good gameplay.
As I said it reminded me of Assassins Creed. The best of them, the original #1. Although it might be that this game takes away Assassins Creed's #1 place in my stealth games list.

I might add some more Info later when I've played a little bit more, just wanted to do a quick review so you can start playing right away.

PS: Also has multiplayer, haven't tested it but if it works that would be the one thing AC missed the most, then it'd be the best stealth game I know.

EDIT: Best games to describe it with IMO: AC, Thief, Mark of the Ninja
Funny how nearly any review of this game has like more than 50% of people not finding it helpful, what do they expect :O

Awesome little indie stealth and action game. It reminded me a lot of thief and tenchu but I tend to end up attacking everyone when I fail the stealth bits.

The music and graphics style are really polished for an indie game. I've only dabbled in the single player so far so can't wait to check out the co op as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1IfoLr5cr4