Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew allows you to unlock your party members in just about any order you’d like–but with a relatively large party with diverse power sets, some are bound to be more useful than others. You’ll revive all of the crew aboard your ghost ship, the Red Marley, over the course of the first half of the campaign. But it’s a lengthy process, and you’ll probably want to unlock some of the better and more versatile members first, while saving specialists with narrow skill sets for later. We’ve ranked the crew members by which ones to revive first, based on both overall strength and general all-around skills.
Afia Manicato
On this one, you don’t have a choice. Afia is ostensibly the main character in Shadow Gambit, the one who interfaces with the Red Marley for major story sequences, and the ship’s Navigator. She is also the one who will physically revive the rest. But Afia is a good yardstick by which to measure the rest of the crew. She comes equipped with a dash-attack that can target enemies from afar, and the ability to freeze an enemy temporarily for distraction or sneaking around them. Most of the characters have some form of special attack and distraction technique, so these are the basic building blocks that you’ll see iterated on throughout.