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This is what a TRUE sandbox detective game is like | Early Access Impressions - Shadows of Doubt
1K View2023-04-27
Shadows of Doubt offers players an immersive detective experience in a customizable, procedurally generated city. The procedurally generated city is fully explorable. Every nook and cranny, every room, floor, and even air vents are real places that you can visit in the game world.
The resulting cities are believable; apartments, stores, rooms, electrical boxes, security cams that all work together to provide an immersive detective sim experience. It truly is a living, breathing world.
As a detective, players must solve crimes by exploring every nook and cranny of the city, following leads, and collecting evidence to deduce the killer's identity. The game's sandbox approach gives players complete freedom to solve crimes in their own way. May it be legally, or illegally.
Players can use legal methods such as interviewing NPCs, obtaining search warrants, and gathering evidence through legal channels. Alternatively, players can resort to illegal means such as breaking and entering, stealing, lying to NPCs, or even using force to get information.
The game also boasts an amazing pin-system where all evidence you find, significant or not, can be pinned on a board and linked with each other to help you in your investigation. Group evidence together, link phone numbers, fingerprints, and addresses to various persons of interest. This allows players to create their own theories and develop a deeper understanding of the crime they are investigating. You can deduce the identity of the killer, or citizen-arrest him yourself for more rewards.
Shadows of Doubt is still in early access, but is showing immense promise with its already playable state. Optimizations are badly needed, as it struggled to run smoothly on my decent RTX 3080 system, with some bugs noticeable especially with NPCs interactions. Regardless, it is already a playable and acceptable experience that already offers a ton of replayability and immersive fun.
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The potential of this procedural detective game is through the roof! | Review - Shadows of Doubt
Shadows of Doubt is a sandbox detective game developed by ColePowered Games, featuring procedurally generated cities, voxel-based graphics, and an impressive lighting system.
Shadows of Doubt offers players an immersive detective experience in a customizable, procedurally generated city. The procedurally generated cities are based in an alternative hyper-industrialized version of the 1980s with its mixture of old technology and sci-fi noir vibes to it.
lyndonguitar1K2023-04-28
A decent endless Detective Game
Shadows of Doubt (Full Review)
Developer: ColePowered Games
Publisher: Fireshine Games
Released: 24 APR, 2023
Price: $20 USD
Shadows of Doubt is an Early Access dark noir detective simulation game. Your goal is to craft and create your own world experience through your interactions with the jobs posted around the city. It does a great job emulating this feeling.
It would be important to note that there isn't much else outside of roleplaying as a detective. There are no real stories or character development or anything interesting to do on the side. It's a straight forward to the point roleplay game.
Pawkt8922023-04-27
Deus Ex meetsTrue Detective in this cyberpunk noir game - Shadows of Doubt Quick First Impressions
PLAY IT OR SKIP IT?
Play it if you’re looking for an immersive detective sim and don’t mind some early access clunkiness. Shadows of Doubt is rough around the edges, but I still had a great time exploring its dystopian sci-fi world. Whether I was investigating a crime scene, crawling through air vents, or harassing the locals, it always kept me on my toes. There were times when I was frustrated by gameplay bugs or the awkward UI, but the highs more than made up for the lows.
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