Overview

Number of Players
1 (Single Player)
Genre
Release Date

Switch eShop

  • EU 21st May 2026 — £14.99
  • US 21st May 2026 — $14.99
Official Site
nintendo.com

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About The Game

Built on the latest game engine, Shadow Trigger: Covert Ops delivers stunning high-quality 3D visuals and silky-smooth gameplay, putting you right in the middle of howling desert sandstorms, choking gunpowder smoke, and bone-rattling blast waves. The oil-rich nation of Al-Sarat has been a battleground for decades, caught between the competing ambitions of global superpowers. When Western intelligence deploys a special forces unit to eliminate the leadership of extremist armed faction Jamala, the mission is already compromised before the first boot hits the ground. Ambushed by a precisely coordinated anti-air assault using advanced electronic warfare systems and MANPADS, the Black Hawk formation is brought down in the heart of the city, leaving survivors surrounded by thousands of hostile fighters. With official rescue operations stalled for political reasons, you are the only one sent in, covertly, to bring your comrades home alive.

・Built on the latest game engine for high-quality 3D graphics and smooth, responsive combat action.

・Take on missions across authentically recreated Middle Eastern locations including desert canyons, occupied urban buildings, and night-time forward operating bases.

・Intense hardcore tactical FPS action played entirely from a first-person perspective.

・From covert night infiltrations to desperate urban breakouts, each mission delivers a distinct atmosphere and pulse-pounding tension.

・An extensive arsenal including sniper rifles, assault rifles, submachine guns, and anti-tank rockets, with tactical flexibility to match every situation.

・High mission freedom: choose your approach, from silent elimination to full-on frontal assault.

・Accessible controls designed for newcomers and veterans alike, from casual FPS players to hardcore tacticians.

No one knows you're there. No one is coming to help. As an elite special forces operative, track down the traitor, rescue your surrounded comrades, and dismantle the insurgent conspiracy that has turned an entire city into a killing ground. Every mission is a carefully crafted test of skill, nerve, and judgement. Whether you survive, whether you find the mole, whether you pull that final trigger, it all comes down to you.

Prologue

Al-Sarat is an oil-rich nation where a decades-long proxy war between global powers has finally reached its breaking point. What looked like the end of a civil war was nothing more than a brief silence before the storm. An unidentified militia, backed by a regional military power and financed by a vast criminal cartel, has quietly evolved into a professional fighting force equipped with state-level electronic warfare systems and surface-to-air missile batteries.

Western intelligence dispatched a Black Hawk formation to neutralise the leadership of Jamala, but the operation was blown before it even began. The insurgents had been tracking the mission in real time, positioning anti-air ambush teams at every approach into the city. As the formation entered the canyon corridor, a MANPADS missile cut through the Black Hawk's countermeasures and found its mark on the tail rotor. The helicopter went down in a fireball over the city square.

This was no accident. It was the final piece of a carefully designed trap, luring Western forces deep into the city as pawns in a global information war. Thousands of armed fighters closed in on the crash site as all communications went dark. With the political fallout too great to risk a formal rescue, command makes one last call: deploy special forces, off the books, and get them out.