Action · September 26, 2024

Shadows of Doubt (2024)

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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 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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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Detective · 414
  • Immersive Sim · 399
  • Sandbox · 344
  • Noir · 340
  • Voxel · 337
  • Procedural Generation · 309
  • Stealth · 302
  • Open World · 272
  • First-Person · 260
  • Singleplayer · 255
  • Puzzle · 251
  • Cyberpunk · 242
  • Adventure · 225
  • RPG · 215
  • Indie · 214

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume15.4k Steam reviewsTop 30% in Action
Positive rating84% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 58%
Concurrent peak286 playersTop 20% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours16 h averageTop 32% for session depth among Action

Peer Action titles

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Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (9)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Japanese volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Japanese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

84%Mostly Positive · 15.4k reviews

13.0k positive · 2.5k negative

Curator recommendations

13.7k

Peak concurrent players

286

Press Quotes

“One of PC Gamer's most anticipated games of 2023” PC Gamer “A must-play detective sim” Why Now Gaming (by Wireframe)

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

16h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

8h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

7h

Current engagement

Achievements

35

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateSep 26, 2024
DeveloperColePowered Games
PublisherFireshine Games
Base price$12.49 -50%
DLC / Add-ons2 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Support

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Content Notes

Depictions of graphic violence displayed in a low-fidelity fashion. References and depictions of fictional drug use and alcohol.

Editions & Packages

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