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Shadows of Doubt

Shadows of Doubt

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.

Very Positive · 82%2024

US Steam price, checked 2 h ago

The verdict

A unique, atmospheric noir detective sandbox with a simulated city and emergent stories, held back by bugs, repetitive cases and slow updates. Skip it if you need polish or lasting variety.

Great for

Players who love noir atmosphere, emergent sandbox chaos and piecing together clues, and can tolerate jank

Main risk

Bugged or unsolvable procedural cases, poor performance, and repetitive cases with little new content

What players love

Unique detective sandbox with player freedom

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“A procedural generated city where every room in every building is enterable. All the NPCs have daily routines, they go go work, and they go home.”

Steam review · 25.9 h played  ↗

Satisfying case solving with clues and fingerprints

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“It really is fun going around a sandbox city searching for clues, getting peoples passwords, spying on emails, stealing valuables along the way”

Steam review · 21.6 h played  ↗

What players complain about

Bugged and unsolvable cases

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews

“the procedurally generated missions are severely bugged or unsolvable around 33% of the time”

Steam review · 34.6 h played  ↗

Poor optimization and stutter

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“We have 2FPS outdoors, but only outdoors for some reason.”

Steam review · 160.2 h played  ↗

System requirements

Steam Deck: Verified
OSWindows 10 or newer
ProcessorIntel 6th Gen i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GTX 1060 or Radeon 5500XT
Storage4 GB available space

Analyzed Nov 2, 2026  ·  300 reviews

150 positive, 150 negative

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