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A procedurally-generated sandbox stealth game with a whole city of secrets at your fingertips!
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About Shadows of Doubt
About this game
A procedurally-generated sandbox stealth game with a whole city of secrets at your fingertips!
Shadows of Doubt is set in an alternate reality in the hyper-industrialized 1980s. Think like a detective and use a variety of gadgets as a private intelligence investigator, gathering evidence and making money by solving cases, finding and selling information and more.
Play your way in a fully simulated world with hundreds of citizens. Discover, meet and tail individual citizens, each with their name, job, apartment and daily routine, in unique, procedurally-generated cities. Each case has different culprits, clues and experiences for you to test your investigative skills.
TOTAL FREEDOM
Explore anywhere in the city! Every nook of every trashy bar, every place of work, every seedy hotel room… This dystopia is your oyster. Break into apartments, rifle through secret documents or hack security systems - even a discarded receipt can be the key to cracking a case. Trace the receipt back to an individual location, scour CCTV footage and match the time to the receipt to find out who it belonged to!
THE WORLD LIVES ON, WITH, OR WITHOUT YOU
The entire world is fully simulated. Each citizen has an apartment, job, daily routine, favourite things to do, places to go, and people to interact with. They live their lives independently, in a world that moves on with or without you— uncover this knowledge and use it to your advantage!
STEP INTO THE BOOTS OF A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
Become a private investigator in a truly unique detective experience. Think like a detective to solve the cases around you: check call histories, find passwords, read private emails, speak to persons of interest, watch CCTV footage and more to retrieve evidence and build your case. Store information on your investigation board and link evidence together as you piece together the full picture.
Features
- Become a private investigator and track down a serial killer in a fully-simulated sci-fi city. Think like a detective and use a variety of gadgets to gather evidence and solve cases in this truly unique detective experience.
- Meet individual citizens, each with their own name, job, apartment and daily routine, in unique, procedurally-generated cities.
- Take on new cases to earn cash, purchase new gadgets and equipment, and customise your apartment.
- Gather evidence to build your case - scan fingerprints, check call histories, read private emails, watch CCTV, and find key pieces of evidence to gather information and accuse your suspect.
- Play your way - pick locks, break down doors, sabotage security systems and bribe citizens for information, or stick to the law and play by the book. There are multiple ways to approach each case.
- Explore every room in every building, and talk to every citizen. Lose yourself in a detailed sci-fi noir world.
MATURE CONTENT DESCRIPTION
The developers describe the content like this:
Depictions of graphic violence are displayed in a low-fidelity fashion. References and depictions of fictional drug use and alcohol.
Game Details
- Platform:
- steam
- Release Date:
- April 24, 2023
- Developer:
- ColePowered Games
- Publisher:
- Fireshine Games
- Rating:
- Supported Languages:
- English
- Link:
- Features:
- SharedSplit Screen
Singleplayer
Multiplayer
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7 or newer
- Processor: Intel i3
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1050
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: Intel i5
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Shadows of Doubt User Reviews
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Xahni13
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The game shows a lot of potential. And if everything goes well it could be the benchmark for detective games in the future!
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Dexter102900
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While in early access so there's some optimizations and tweaks that can be made, this is the ultimate detective game! The pin board system really allows you to make deductions and not hand feed it to you or allow just guessing the options until it works like so many other mystery games. This combined with the procedural simulation of a full city provide enough detail and red herrings that you can't just guess evidence one of four must connect with evidence four of four so this is the solution the game wants.
For example in one mission I found fingerprints at the murder scene on a open safe that weren't the deceased's. After interrogating a bunch of connections to the murder victim one person suggested an individual as the potential culprit. I tracked that person down to their apartment where they lived with someone else. No matter what I did their partner would answer the door not the person I was investigating. I was able to dust the door for fingerprints though and I got two sets, one matched the one from the crime scene. Even though my pin board let me take the fingerprints it didn't automatically assume or unlock those fingerprints as from the person I was investigating but I was able to deduce myself and place those fingerprints as evidence when turning in my case. Other games would require me to have done the right steps in order for the fingerprints to clearly show that they were the culprits before they could count as evidence in my final report. But this game allows enough flexibility and deduction on your own that I reasoned the two sets at the apartment were the culprit's and her partner's. Since one set of fingerprints were at the crime scene and everything else pointed to my suspect not her partner those must be the suspects fingerprints and I could submit them in my case report as such. Case closed.
The procedural generation and world simulation also allows for cases that aren't obvious and actually require deductive work. The game does not have a detective mode like from Arkham Asylum that highlights everything and makes finding things trivial but it still strikes a balance of you actually have to look for evidence and how would I ever notice that. This makes investigating a crime scene actually fun and super rewarding when you notice something that cracks the case wide open. Also as demonstrated by the introductory mission, which is not entirely procedural in order to act like a tutorial, there's enough evidence that the case can be...
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Ste0
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Very enjoyable game, can't wait for full release
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Pantus
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Alternative History Noir Private Investigator Excellence
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Seraffian
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One of the most ambitious games I've played - programmed by 1 - ONE - person - and boy, does it deliver!
This detective game is unlike any other I've ever played in that there's very little hand-holding. You have to find the clues, you have to point out any leads, you have to follow up on them. Sometimes that means breaking into a work place and going through their personnel files. Other times it means knocking on doors, taking fingerprints, breaking into someone's place through the vents, checking security footage or ransacking someone's place. Sometimes a lead leads you to a dead end, which can be frustrating. But the satisfaction you feel when you're right, when your proper detective work leads to the right perp, is unlike any other detective game in my experience. Yeah, the job can be boring at times, but then again, that's what I envision detective work being sometimes with my 0 experience as a real-life detective.
The ambition I mentioned comes in the form of an open world where EVERYTHING is simulated. I don't know about you, but sometimes my immersion breaks a little or I get a little bit frustrated when I find a door in an open world, especially those with a big, bright neon sign outside that says "OPEN", only to find that I can't open it, heck, it doesn't even exist, it just looks like it does. Well, in Shadows of Doubt every door exists and you can enter every. single. one. If you see an 18 floor apartment building it means you can enter both it and every single apartment on every single floor.
Not only that, but if you look in the phone book you'll see a few hundred names in there. Those are the names of every NPC in the game. They all have a place to live, they all have a job they go to, they have a routine. They can all end up as the victim, they can all end up as the killer. In other words, you can have interacted with someone in the past who then turns out to be the next serial killer somewhere down the line. Just this idea is highly fascinating to me.
I'm loving my time with this game. It's still in Early Access so expect some bugs and kinks to iron out, but this highly ambitious detective game deserves all the love and attention. Highly recommend.
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Taker597
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Early build. Would wait for patches.
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DarkKnight
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This game had a game-ending bug for me and I really wanted to play this game. I'm even trying to see if it will play right on my SteamDeck. I would get to a certain point in the tutorial and the game would crash. I then tried to play the game without the tutorial and it was not possible, since the game crashes so early in the tutorial you don't get to see how to navigate any of the in-game dynamics, example I still don't know if I can zoom in on the map. When I played the regular game I spent more time trying to figure out what I can do with my controller vs my keyboard and mouse. (you that type of stuff you usually learn about in the tutorial. If you play this game with a controller, you will find that the inventory system is total trash. The tutorial tells you that you can do this or that with your controller...you can't.
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BlueJava
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This game is amazingly addicting, so much so that it should be criminal. Everyone is guilty until proven innocent. From corkboard to lockpicking, to sabotaging cameras, and enforcers you'll find your perp before another victim falls prey. Or will you? It is early access, so it is buggy, but not hard to overlook the bugs. If you fancy detective work, this game is a must.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Available DLCs for Shadows of Doubt include Soundtrack and Digital Artbook
According to PEGI, Shadows of Doubt is suitable for players aged 16 and above.
Yes, Shadows of Doubt is Steam Deck Verified. Valve’s testing indicates that Shadows of Doubt is Verified on Steam Deck. This game is fully functional on Steam Deck, and works great with the built-in controls and display.
- All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
- This game shows Steam Deck controller icons
- In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
- This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7 or newer
- Processor: Intel i3
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1050
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: Intel i5
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
- Storage: 3 GB available space
59% of critics on Metacritic recommend Shadows of Doubt. The Metascore is 71 out of 100.
83% of Fanatical users recommend Shadows of Doubt. The average review score is 4.4/5
Shadows of Doubt was released on April 24, 2023
Shadows of Doubt is published by Fireshine Games
Shadows of Doubt was developed by ColePowered Games
Fanatical users tagged Shadows of Doubt as Immersive Sim, Sandbox, Puzzle, and RPG
Fanatical users tagged Shadows of Doubt as Detective, Noir, Voxel, and Atmospheric
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Shadows of Doubt as having Singleplayer
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Shadows of Doubt as Immersive Sim
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Shadows of Doubt as Sandbox
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Shadows of Doubt as Puzzle
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