- Simulation
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Shadows of Forbidden Gods
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,
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.
About Shadows of Forbidden Gods
- Released
- November 2021
- Engine
- Unity
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
Where to get it
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Browse everything
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From the developers
Official announcements, newest first. Posted on Steam.
- Community AnnouncementsBugfix: Fewer Flesh GodsHotfix to fix an issue where a previous patch included the "God: Escamrak" mod in the mod upload folder for everyone. I left in there during testing something or other, and it got uploaded to everyone. The game should now delete this mod, so you don't have the "upload mod" button on the main screen. It is checking the files there against an SHA512 hash, so if you are a modder and have changed t...
- Community AnnouncementsDLC Released: The Horrors BeneathThe DLC is finally here! Bringing new exciting ways to doom humanity. Devour them from beneath, explode their cities or give birth to an abomination. Dwarves and Cthonians Locked in battle underground, the inhabitants of the caverns wage a constant war of survival against one another. Dwarves, the new good race, are prone to falling to Shadow. Away from the sun, their souls slowly slip into the...
- Community AnnouncementsUI update and notes on DLCOver the past couple of months I've been working on DLC for Shadows. Based on current progress it should be released around January, maybe early February. The DLC focuses on adding an underground layer to the map. The underground is its own map, with slightly fewer locations than the surface level, accessed by travelling down a limited set of connecting links. Initially the domain of your agent...
- Community AnnouncementsUI for Curses Map View and a couple of BugfixesGameplay: -Human Souls increase the Death percentage in a location by 1% per turn while dissipating UI: -Added curse map view for tracking who is in a cursed house Bugfixes: -Fixed Darkstone description -Fixed descriptions of Vinvera powers borrowed by Broken Maker -Broker Maker can't create agents over the cap any more -Elven Arrogance in Dark Empire no longer harmed by nearby monster territory
- Community AnnouncementsBugfixes and proofreadingAll events have now been given a proofread (many thanks to contributing writer John Chao here). Along with this, a couple of bugfixes: -Fixed bug with kills not being tracked by assassinate challenges (sometimes critical for First Daughter summoning) -Fixed display issue with events where progress could be displayed to far too many decimal places
- Community AnnouncementsHotfix to V1.1 mod configA quick fix to an issue which some people were having with mod configurations, following the V1.1 update
- Mods indexed
- 113
- Versions
- 0
- Newest tracked
- none yet
- Most disruptive update
- No breakage data for this game
Most downloaded
Measured from the source's own counts, summed across every release.
- Deep Ones PlusAdds a few new things to make for a more interesting Deep One run. New Agent: The Fisherman Dedicated to helping the Deep Ones, he has the unique abilities tied to his Haul, which can be increased through the "Reel Them In" challenge. Abyssal Magic and Abyssal Artifacts Deep One Sanctums now serv...6.4k downloads
- Community LibraryNews Version Number 2.12.01 (Hotfix) Released on 23/07/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy). Introduction Most of the Community Library's features are designed to fix bugs and oversights in the game's code, and to extend the game's modability and mod compatibility. It completely replaces the trade route system, pat...6.1k downloads
- Living WildsThis mod aims to turn the wilderness from an empty wasteland to another battlefield for the forces of light and dark, introducing challenges to fight for control of it and wilderness creatures who help or hinder you based on the shadow of the lands they're in. Battle for Nature - New challenges h...5.8k downloads
- Living CharactersIt's my pleasure to introduce Living Characters, an AI mod focused on making the heroes and rulers of the world more proactive, dramatic and interesting. In total, the mod adds over 45 new quests, challenges and ruler actions to give heroes and rulers more ways to interact with the world. Gamepla...5.6k downloads
- God: EscamrakAdds a new god, Escamrak, a god of Flesh, Body Horror, and Magic. Use the new school of magic, Fleshcrafting, to empower your minions, enshadow heroes and rulers who learn it, and eventually create Escamrak's corporeal form to wage a crushing war of attrition against humanity. Includes: 6 New Pow...5.3k downloads
- God: The Living VoidAdds a new god, the Living Void, based off of the idea of Vacuum Collapse. Hide voidstones in infiltrated locations, use powers and agents alike to expand them into footholds in the mortal world, and finally spill in through them and plunge reality into nothingness. Includes: 10 New Powers A Uniq...4.9k downloads
- Kishi, God of BloodshedThis mod introduces a fully-playable god focused on war and combat. In the early game, Kishi can use her powers to instill heroes and rulers with bloodlust, triggering wars and turning humanity against itself. As rulers declare war and heroes kill one-another, the people responsible gain Bloodsta...4.7k downloads
- Living SocietiesLiving Societies turns the ordinary kingdoms and queendoms of the world into a myriad of different society types with different cultures, economics, and tools to corrupt or ruin them, as well as introducing a selection of powerful independent “landmark” locations that can transform the strategies...4.6k downloads
- Orcs PlusNEWS Version Number 2.9.03 (Plunder Theft Fix). Released on 25/05/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy). Introduction Orcs Plus is a major expansion to the Orc race in Shadows of Forbidden Gods, inspired by the fantastic Deep Ones Plus mod. It makes numerous changes to the base game's code, giving orcs more opportun...4.4k downloads
- An Actual Englishman and Mall's Mid-Challenge Event Pack!For those who might want more variety to the current mid-Challenge events in game, we offer this collection of events to spice things up. This event pack currently contains a whopping <b>94(!) new Events</b>, from tavern brawls to thunderstorms, from monkish duels to noble fools, creatures from b...4.3k downloads
- Adolia, the Faceless MemoryAdds Adolia, the Faceless Memory as a playable Elder God, who acts as a mind virus that infects individuals and slowly replaces their memories with itself, until they eventually transform into a physical manifestion of it. Each stage of the game increases the scope of the Faceless Memory's infect...4.2k downloads
- Ixthus, King of CupsAdds a new god to the game Ixthus King of Cups. Ixthus's mechanics revolve around grails of eternal life, heroes and rulers who drink from them are afflicted with a cursed immortality. Continually resurrecting while their humanity is sapped away. Ixthus is themed around danger and unrest, the fra...3.9k downloads
- Covens, Curses, and CuriosNews: Version Number 2.1.06 (Secrets of Life and Death Fix) Date Updated (dd/mm/yyyy): 05/07/2026 Description Greatly expands the number of things you can do at covens, adds a new school of magic called curseweaving that requires human souls and adds a new item crafting system to the game along w...3.1k downloads
- Names of the WorldNames of the World is a culture overhaul that adds over 20 new hand-curated name lists to the game to make the world’s societies more distinct from one-another. Real Names: Rather than the base game’s Markov-generated names, Names of the World uses real-world names, reviewed by hand to make sure...2.9k downloads
- God: Chandalor, the Cursed BloomAdds a new god, Chandalor, who revolves around using god powers to cripple humanity while using agents to win. Trick humanity into weddings that bridge their houses together, afflict them with terrible curses, and then spread those curses along the bonds of marriage until humanity is incapable of...2.8k downloads
- Aberrant MetalAdds the Aberrant Metal as a playable Elder God, a parasitic living metal that manifests within centers of industry. It will slowly consume cities, transforming them into massive factory complexes with the sole purpose of furthering its own growth. Features 11 Elder Powers spread across 9 Seals A...2.6k downloads
- Alai, God of WebsAlai is a consciousness lurking in the souls of Her human hosts, subtly mutating and whispering to them to help Her grow and evolve until Her presence overtakes the entire world. Manipulate Your Puppets Defeat heroes and acolytes in combat to add them to the Devoured, opening them up to your infl...2.0k downloads
- Kalastrophe, the Shifting CalamityAdds the god Kalastrophe, whose powers and nature are different every game depending on what players do. Kalastrophe cannot recruit agents conventionally, relying entirely on corrupting heroes in addition to its initial Supplicant. Features include: Build-A-Supplicant 4 powers whose effects YOU c...1.7k downloads
- The WhispererThe Whisperer is a recruitable vampire agent specializing in manipulating heroes and rulers. Once she marks a hero, acolyte or ruler as her prey, she will steadily gain Psychic Whispers she can use to control them while she does other things, either forcing them to perform certain actions or resh...1.4k downloads
- AAEnglishman and Mall's Event Pack - REDUXAAEnglishman and Mall's Event Pack - REDUX Mid-Challenge event pack from AAEnglishman and Mall, expanded and fixed all around. Designed to offer a bit more narrative flavour to the standard Shadows of Forbidden Gods game whilst hopefully retaining the feel and challenge of the base game, this mod...1.4k downloads
- Keeper Item Additions and EnhancementsThe original Keeper Item Mod was created by KeeperOfTheSecondFire (or Parsalian on Steam), and will not be updated for the v1.0 beta onward. I'm reposting and maintaining the mod with their permission. Keeper Items Additions and Enhancements overhauls the game's item list by changing the base gam...1.4k downloads
- Reinforcements from the ShadowsThis mod occasionally triggers events to allow your agents to summon powerful minions with unique mechanics as well as developing stats. Minions Agents not already have 3 minions can summon minions from the shadows with unique mechanics. Three options available. Cultists - 2 HP, 2 ATK, 2 DEF, 0 C...1.3k downloads
- PREVIEW - An Actual Englishman and Mall's Agent Specific Narrative Pack!For those who might want more narrative events for their Agents in game, we offer this collection that is intended to flesh out the lore and stories of our most-used game pieces. This event pack is currently in TESTING and we are actively seeking FEEDBACK - please feel free to give it a shot and...1.2k downloads
- Villikos, the First ClaimantAdds Villikos, the First Claimant as a playable Elder God, a manifestation of tyranny and conquest. He sees the rulers of the world as pretenders to be toppled and those under them as useful pawns to exert his will. Kingdoms will find themselves suddenly beset with instability. Emperors will rise...1.2k downloads
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Why Shadows of Forbidden Gods mods break
A mod is compiled against one version of a game. When the game updates, anything that reached into the parts that moved stops working, and it usually stops working silently rather than with a message that explains itself.
That is what the table above counts. It is not a guess: each row is a mod the community has reported as broken by that specific release. The number is a fair measure of how disruptive an update was, and it is the reason people delay updating a game they have modded heavily.
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Where does the compatibility data come from?
From the communities that maintain it in the open, not from guesswork. Each claim carries how it is known, so a reported breakage is never presented as though the author said it.
Why is a mod listed as broken when it works for me?
Compatibility depends on your exact game version and the rest of your load order. A mod marked as broken in one release may work fine on an older one, which is exactly why the version is recorded next to the claim rather than a bare yes or no.