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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

ActionStrategy

Developer Spellbound

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is a real-time tactics video game developed by Spellbound Entertainment and published by Infogrames for Microsoft Windows. In the game, the player controls up to six characters in an Old West setting. The protagonist is a worldly knife-fighter and gunslinger, John Cooper, who sets out to capture a notorious train-robber named "El Diablo" and claim the bounty on his head. As Cooper… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2024

    2. Shadow Gambit Speaking of my favourite games from last year, I still can't recommend Shadow Gambit highly enough and deserved so much better, a stealthy strategy murder-puzzle in the vein of the old Commandos/Desperados games with an undead pirate crew. store.steampowered.com/app/1545560/...

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  • dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2025

    Great game from the Desperados III team. Sadly overlooked and so the studio ended up closing up because there seemingly wasn't a market for them. Well worth picking up.

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2025

    Iron Harvest was one of the best modern RTS games, set in the same universe as the Scythe boardgame, and handing these devs the Dawn of War IP? That's like when they gave Desperados to Mimimi, a perfect fit. Colour me very, very intrigued. store.steampowered.com/app/826630/I...

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    Desperados 3 is a tremendously good strategy game, I think I recommend one of Mimimi's stealth tactics games nearly every steam sale, but for damn good reason. Nobody did it like them. Take your posse of cowpokes on elaborate murder-puzzle stages in a genuinely epic revenge narrative.

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    27. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun With this game, developer Mimimi singlehandedly resurrected the stealth strategy genre that started with the likes of Commandos and Desperados, and it's every bit the successor to that legacy you could ever desire, nobody did it quite like them. Play it!

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  • Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2025

    This game is incredible, as is the same crew’s Desperados 3 and Shadow Tactics. No one, and I mean no one, has done realtime stealth tactics better than Mimimi.

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  • Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.comBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    There's the best deal yet on Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew + DLC. Probably the best stealth-tactics game (Commandos, Desperados, etc) of its kind. There may not be another like it, as the studio disbanded immediately after release. Really fun Ghost Pirates versus Magic-Hating Inquisitors setting.

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  • Ricardo Juchem @ricardojuchem.comBluesky · Oct 22, 2024

    Bought a new game (for me). Desperados should be called Isometric Beauty.

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  • Daily Black Video Game Characters @dailyblackchars.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    Today’s Black Video Game Character: Isabelle Morale (Desperados)

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  • Just Dan @danvmaul.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2024

    Random shoutout time! Any Desperados III fans out there? It was probably my 1st tactical stealth isometric game since Commandos 2, and I was surprised at how solid the gameplay and story were. Sucks that Mimimi closed doors. But I still a couple of their games in my backlog waiting to be played.

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  • starlit silence (Kassna, no energy) @shiftingdreamer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2026

    02 - Desperados Always been a wild west fan & this released when I was 14 and had my 1st computer. First ever game I owned the original of. I still remember all the great times I had with this, also playing with my bestie again years later! Hiding maaaany bodies in small shacks was our fav thing X'D

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  • Olly - Wargamer of Kent @wargamerofkent.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2023

    Well that was a successful ambush - game 1 to the Desperados!

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  • edeath @edithcharles.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2026

    They should make a Commandos/Desperados style strategy game about fighting other people for bargains on Black Friday or somesuch

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  • Mildra 📿 Monk vTuber @mildrathemonk.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2025

    📿❄️Schedule Time📿❄️ This week in the monastery: - I'm finally doing more game streams! Any and all games are on the table. - The Valley tackles the Desperados #ttrpg - and I pay a visit to Maki's neck o' the woods to talk anything and everything! #ENvtuber #vtuber #vtubersupportbeam

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  • murphysdistillery.bsky.social @murphysdistillery.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    This Saturday, who doesn’t like a drinks offer?!? 🍻 11am-2pm & during game! Desperados - whilst they last. See you Saturday from 11am! #everton #newcastle #EFC #UTFT #COYB

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  • Sam @samburr.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2024

    Desperados 3: Nobody has played or heard of this game but it rules and I've sunk sooooooooo many hours into it. I would never have thought I'd have been so into a stealth-based game, but it really plays like a series of fun, interesting puzzles.

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  • Ryan Zhao @insrtcoins.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    But most heist games opt for greater focus on execution than planning. PAYDAY is more of an action game than a stealth game, and Monaco is a frantic, multiplayer arcade experience. Even slower-paced games like Invisible Inc and Desperados III only let you plan a couple of steps in advance.

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  • Mark Caldwell @impworks.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    Home made curry (reheat its Friday but it was good) then losing myself in Desperados III trying to unpick its large levels into small solvable chunks And not wonder about how to make an RPG focused on stealth and distraction that mimics it rather than the usual big fight game

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  • Siam Poodle PRO @siampoodlepro.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2025

    Back to the indie section because I want to actually play games instead of queuing and I come back to an absolute banger. "Prohibeast" is a top down real time stealth game with pause (see Desperados) starring animal people during the American prohibition era. #Gamescom2025 #GamescomPoodle2025

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  • Atom ⚛️ @atom7895.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2025

    Was so sad that Mimimi shutdown after this game as it was the first I’ve played from them. Desperados 3 is next after Expedition 33

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  • Parallax Abstraction @pxa.caBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream from River End Games and @nordcurrentlabs.bsky.social. Never heard of this or the dev/pub but WOW. It's a top-down stealth action game like Shadow Tactics or Desperados, but in a fictional world that feels like A Plague Tale. Incredible voice actin and plays great.

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  • Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2025

    Tomorrow, Instruction Derby is back on a very special/schedule mandated day! A day called “Thursday”. Let’s read Genesis games: - Dashin’ Desperados, a game with cool cover art - Fatal Rewind, an EA-published Psygnosis joint Plus…game giveaway? twitch.tv/nicmcconnell 12pm Pacific Thurs March 27

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  • Guy Shalev @guyshalev.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfmu... The studio behind Blasphemous going for a tactical stealth game is definitely a choice, after Mimimi Games, the studio behind Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun, Desperados, and more, closed down after their last game.

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  • Tomas Franzese @tomasfranzese.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Yeah, I could see it being like XCOM or more of a Commandos/Desperados-like stealth tactics game with permadeath. Sad that Kill the Justice League probably destroyed the prospects of WB ever greenlighting another Suicide Squad game.

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  • Ink 🐻💾 @inkuoh.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2025

    store.steampowered.com/app/2377280/... (wl) Has steam demo. Isometric and narrative driven stealth game. The stealth works similiar to Isometric mimimis "Shadow Tactics"/ "Desperados 3" - or like older Commandos. But more narrative.

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  • Hudspeth @hudsp3th.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    Looking at the Deep Discounts, Desperados 3 is on sale for like 3 bucks, that game is siiiiick, and Doom Eternal, Elite Dangerous if you like space sims, and Monster Train for card builder rogue lite.

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  • @orionali 🏳️‍⚧️ @orionali.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2025

    #Desperados 3 is currently $4 on Steam (for the first time!) Do yourself a favor and play this super-amazing-fantastic game!

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  • DreamStation.cc @dreamstation.ccBluesky · Sep 26, 2025

    Desperados III - On Sale for $3.99 (90% Off) Now Through September 29, 2025 on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/610370/D... #steamsale #steam #videogames #gaming

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2025

    It's very much not that kinda game, it's a stealth tactics game like Commandos/Desperados

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  • @orionali 🏳️‍⚧️ @orionali.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2025

    Someday we'll get a new #Desperados game. Until then, I'll be in my lodge, writing my fanfics.

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  • Athenya @athenya.gayBluesky · Jun 18, 2025

    That's basically what nya did through most of the 2000's, just a decent enough PC to kinda run TF2 and other source games, and then just a bunch of emulators, indie games and probably also some 10€ PC game like the first Desperados

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  • Matchu Purple Puppy @matchuthematriever.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2025

    Took at short break from Days Gone to play Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew for a bit Fantastic game just like Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 Obviously shares the same spirit and style but honestly the magic pirates makes it feel very different🥰 Also love that save scumming is lore now 😂

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  • Beni Andermatt @beniandermatt.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    I had a great time with Desperados III. It's an old-west stealth strategy puzzle game. If you know the original, this is a perfect prequal. The characters are very cliché, but it fits the genre.

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  • R @revcoded.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    I hold these stealth strategy titles close to my heart: Shadow Tactics, Desperados III, Shadow Gambit, and Sumerian Six. Three of them are from the now-defunct Mimimi Games. It's honestly one of my favorite game genres.

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  • Aaron Riccio @illogicaljoker.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    ERIKSHOLM: THE STOLEN DREAM looks great, and using stealth and character-swapping to solve puzzles makes me wonder if this is DISHONORED by way of DESPERADOS. I personally prefer the isometric view for games of this nature (as opposed to first- or third-person); hoping this one lands!

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  • HeVi @hevistorm.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    TL;DR She heals and snipes. Amariel wouldn't be a sole protagonist, but part of the team the player controls. The game itself would be a real-time tactics title akin to Desperados/Commandos. Both her kit and demeanour would be similar to those of Doc McCoy from Desperados III.

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  • Quite Unusual Dev Log @quiteunusualdev.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2023

    The C64 game They Stole a Million always fascinated me so when I came across a Let's Play of Killers & Thieves. I thought of making a heist game that is a stealth strategy, like Desperados or the more recent Shadow Gambit. So I spent this morning coding a 2D FOV visibility test.

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  • Blerd Beats @blerdbeats.blacksky.appBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    Shout out again to Mimimi, because in this game, the best (broken) character in the game practices Voodoo. Not only is Desperados III an excellent Commandos-like, but that character is worth experiencing and looking forward to unlocking. store.steampowered.com/app/610370/D...

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  • Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    I freakin’ loved Mimimi’s take on the Desperados franchise and adored Shadow Tactics, too, so much so that I have no qualms recommending this game unplayed.

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  • Zekiel @illmetbymorrslieb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    Currently playing Desperados III, a wonderful stealth real time strategy game. I’m not sure I’ve ever done as much quick loading in a game before, but it’s enormous fun. The top-down view makes it feel like playing in a toybox of clockwork miniatures. store.steampowered.com/app/610370/D...

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  • Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ @spookycutewitch.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2026

    Yeah, attritional combat with either emergent or embedded narrative definitely seems like it’s more our speed: even though we have a soft spot for something like Desperados, it feels more freeing to have the game go “You *are* going to get hurt…what are you going to do about it?”

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  • Till Geske @oneonion.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    Crap, forgot alt text. A game map from a 90s game called 'Desperados'. It's a fictionalized version of wild-west El Paso. A train station is in the center of the image, a church in the top right, and a fort in the top left.

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  • I am nameless yet others name me @7778777.onlineBluesky · Feb 28, 2026

    this is me and that one Robin Hood game that played like a Commandos/Desperados game and that everyone else said was bad

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  • GameDealRadar @gamedealradar.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2026

    Grab Desperados III for just $9.99 (75% off from $39.99)! With a Metacritic score of 86, this tactical stealth game is a must-play. Don't miss out on this deal! Check it out here: https://www.cheapshark.com/redirect?dealID=KBrXijlVDIhwUJ%2F5GwQHeRZNfBkgtklznr9nsBRKkyo%3D #GameDeals #PCGaming #Steam

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  • Rob Myall @robmyall.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    The first of Mimimi Games' pausable-realtime strategy games, Shadow Tactics: Blades Of The Shogun (store.steampowered.com/app/418240/S...) is still a really great example of the genre even if Desperados or Shadow Gambit might be more polished. 36/52

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  • Wag the Fox @wagthefox.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2025

    My Steam refund came through, so I took my $20 and bought Desperados 3 and Wrestling Empire. I figure I owed Matt Dickie a few bucks after so many years of playing the free versions of his wrestling games. And a wild west tactical game sounds fun as hell.

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  • Music News @MusicNewsWebMastodon · Sep 2, 2025

    Desperados, The Acorn - #Desperados @eaglesdesperados @acornpenzance - The Acorn, Penzance Read the full review here: https://ift.tt/RVxSO07 Music-News.com

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  • Julian @jukek.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2025

    It's such a phenomenal game but didn't get as much attention as Shadow Tactics and Desperados, and the studio went under It's a great game

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  • BestMacFly @[email protected]Mastodon · Aug 18, 2023

    The next evenings are reserved for #ShadowGambit, successor of #desperados and #ShadowTactics. It was released yesterday and I’m very excited if it is as good as the previous games! #NewReleaseThrills #StealthGaming

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  • question mark @[email protected]Mastodon · Dec 26, 2021

    First Desperados is dirty cheap at GOG, just saying https://www.gog.com/game/desperados_wanted_dead_or_alive 20 year old game, one of the classics of the Commandos family. #GOG #games #DRMfree #sale #Desperados

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