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Shadows of Doubt

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3.8/5

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3.8

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Shadows of Doubt
Description
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 ma...
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61 %
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3.8/5

( 23 Reviews )

3.8

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Product details
2023, ColePowered Games, ...
System requirements
Windows 10 or newer, Intel 6th Gen i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600, 8 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 1060 or Radeon 5500X...
DLCs
Shadows of Doubt Soundtrack, Shadows of Doubt - Digital Artbook
Time to beat
23 hMain
35.5 h Main + Sides
58 h Completionist
34.5 h All Styles
Description

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 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 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.

© Copyright 2023 COLEPOWERED GAMES LTD. All rights reserved. Published by Fireshine Games. "Fireshine Games" is a trademark of Sold Out Sales & Marketing Limited.

System requirements
Minimum system requirements:

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

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

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
23 hMain
35.5 h Main + Sides
58 h Completionist
34.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11)
Release date:
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Size:
982 MB

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Posted on: May 27, 2025

YupYuppers

Verified owner

Games: 58 Reviews: 1

Brilliant concept, needs some more time

This game scratched an itch for me I didn't realize I had. The ideas and setup is extremely fun, but it definitely needs more time to get bugs ironed out. My first playthrough of it became such a broken mess to the point where any and all evidence or leads I had would put me at a dead end. I got so frustrated by the amount of cases I'd have to drop because all of my dead leads wasted my time of being able to stay within the time limit before evidence would start to disappear. I looked and researched into the game to find out what I was doing wrong, but every advice I'd find for finding more evidence would fall flat. And it's not very satisfying sitting and making wild guesses until the report tells me my 60th guess was finally the guy. I refunded the game with 25 hrs into it. But it stayed in my brain, because even though it was busted and I was losing crows, I still had that itch to play more. So I gave it another go and reinstalled it. Happy to report that the game worked much better the second time around (albeit not flawlessly, I have had cases become a game of "sitting in front of a computer printing 50+ resident files because I have to find out who this average height male is") and I'm hooked. It still needs some bugs ironed out, I still have issues every now and then. But once the game gets some more work done on it? 100% recommend. I love the atmosphere and worldbuilding they've put into this.


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Posted on: March 25, 2025

themostghost

Games: 186 Reviews: 5

Avoid at all costs, description is a lie

A cool concept ruined by broken mechanics, all that stuff in the description about NPCs having lives is a lie, they just ping between whatever points of interest are near them. They're scheduled to leave work at 1800? Well instead they're just gonna be walking around the office magically entering whatever room you're in all night. NPCs see you through walls, sometimes they walk straight through locked doors, everyone's immediate reaction to you doing anything remotely suspicious is for them (and every other npc in the area) to open fire on you. Every single citizen seems to have a firearm except you, and you cannot use any of the guns you pick up, I don't mind not being able to use guns, especially because you can beat every single combat encounter by stabbing someone once or throwing a chair at them, but I want to play as a detective, not a psychopath. But really, are you playing as a detective? A detective asks people questions, a detective tries to follow the law, in this game your only option is breaking and entering. When trying to question NPCs you have a laughably limited amount of options and they apply to every character in the game, you can't bring up evidence, intimidate or even mention you're investigating a murder. You get your cases from city hall, but have to resort to crime. The description states "play your own way" but in reality there are, and i'm being extremely generous here, two playstyles in the entire game: tedious, janky, broken stealth with NPCs that do instant 180 pivots and somehow always seem to know which room you're in while you point your fingerprint detector at every surface on the planet, or just act like a total psychopath and smash the door down, stab the occupants then search to your heart's content, occasionally re-stabbing them when they wake up from their non-lethal stab to the neck, because that's what detectives do, right? Do not buy, do not play, and if someone gifts you this game they're doing it because they hate you.


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Posted on: October 9, 2025

Porcupine01

Verified owner

Games: 203 Reviews: 4

Highly Recommend

This one took me by suprise and kinda restored my faith in newer releases. It's very immersive with its sounds atmosphere and gameplay. I bought it yesterday and have already clocked nearly 9 hours. Hightly recommend, it's a great experence so far!


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Posted on: October 15, 2025

AddOnArmor

Verified owner

Games: 11 Reviews: 2

SUCKS HARD

Eleven hours and not a single solvable case. No evidence that leads anywhere. Fingerprints that can't be matched. Questioning people is completely pointless as they refuse to help and never know anything. This game sucks.


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Posted on: February 10, 2025

MrSnowman.234

Verified owner

Games: 50 Reviews: 1

Excellent idea

Very impressed with the game so far.


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