
Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
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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 own way in a fully simulated world with hundreds of citizens. Discover, meet and tail individual citizens, each with their own 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.
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 up to the receipt to find out who it belonged to!
The entire world is fully simulated. Each citizen has an apartment, job, daily routine, favorite things to do, places to go, and people to interact with. They live out their lives independently, in a world that moves on with or without you— uncover this knowledge and use it to your advantage!
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 ful 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 own 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.
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Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 86 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 86 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
cool idea if the dev cared
I always secretly wanted be a fed.
All of these negative reviews complaining that the game is broken and that "the only way to find a killer is through fingerprints". To that I say, skill issue. Play on hard or very hard mode and understand that not every crime is solvable with the first murder. Yes the kidnappings suck ass, let them die and move on. You're there to solve murders, not prevent them.
Can’t recommend on steam deck. Game breaking bug that prevents progression when computer password entry is required. Double entry of digits when selected once
Randomly lose the ability to control the game. Controller, mouse and keyboard just stop working until I ctrl, alt, delete and close application. Happens between 5-10 minutes into gameplay.
I didn't realise how much stealth this game would expect me to do. I hate stealth mechanics. At least I like a good mystery... Oh wait, the characters are completely bland and the mysteries amount to "find whose fingerprint this is". Yeah, no thanks.
Benn released for years and it still has bugs that won’t even let you progress if you’re playing with controller. Avoid if playing with steam deck
Super fun game, unending amount of bugs, and makes playing the game frustrating. I want to adore this game so much, but needs some fixes.
The foundation was set for this to be something really special. They basically gave up and abandoned the game in a horribly unfinished state. A tragic waste of potential. Not recommended.
I blame SethTzeentach for recommending me this crap
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Momentum
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Engagement
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Audience
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese*languages with full audio support
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