Infiltrate neon-lit facilities floor by floor! Avoid sentries, cameras, and drones. Hack data nodes, activate cloak, find gadgets (EMP/decoy/smoke), evade elite enemies. Try Infiltration Protocol for hand-crafted puzzles, or Phantom Relay — alternate between two operatives across linked floors, share intel and gadgets, trigger Blackouts, and risk stacking extraction multipliers.
How Shadow Grid plays
Shadow Grid is a tile-based stealth game. Sentries patrol set routes, cameras sweep cones of vision, and drones move unpredictably. You move with WASD, sprint with shift, hack terminals with E, and cloak with Q. Three gadgets — EMP, decoy, smoke — are mapped to 1, 2, 3, and each has limited charges.
Hacking data nodes is the score engine. Every hack reveals patrol patterns, banks score, and unlocks the floor exit. Engaging enemies directly is almost always wrong; the game rewards observation, route-planning, and patient timing.
Modes and what they reward
Classic is the procedural floor-by-floor mode. Infiltration Protocol uses hand-crafted puzzle floors with hidden objectives. Phantom Relay is the marquee mode: alternate between two operatives across linked floors, share intel and gadgets, trigger Blackouts, and stack extraction multipliers.
Blitz Protocol is timed pressure; Blackout Run plays in low visibility; Clockwork Heist is the highest-precision variant — every patrol is on a strict tick and one bad timing breaks the run.
Strategy: hacks before action
Always hack before engaging. Even if you think you can sneak past, the intel a hack provides about patrol routes pays back across the rest of the floor. Skipping hacks to save time leaves runs leaning on luck.
Cloak is for cameras, not sentries. Cameras have continuous vision cones; cloak gets you across them safely. Sentries have predictable patrols you can dodge with timing alone, so spending cloak on them wastes the gadget.
- Hack data nodes before engaging enemies — each hack gives intel on patrol routes.
- Save cloak for camera corridors; sentries can be dodged with timing alone.
- In Phantom Relay, sync operative switches with Blackout triggers for safe transitions.