In Shadows Of Doubt, you can fall off the roof of a corporate office building during a routine investigation, break every bone in your brittle detective body, wake up in a clinic completely healed, and then run out the door without paying a huge hospital bill while the clinic’s automated turret shoots you for making a medical dinner and escaping. The Early Access game is on our list of the best immersive simulators for a reason, you know, and now it has a fall release date, complete with a up-to-date trailer.
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It’s coming out of Early Access on September 26. Ed once described the detective game as “an inverted Hitman,” referring to a fully simulated diminutive town that you have to navigate and understand in order to solve the murders that fill your corkboard. Procedurally generated characters leave evidence of their movements in the form of emails, fingerprints, address books, surveillance footage, and more. It’s up to you to follow those leads and solve some murders.
“Shadows of Doubt is unlike any other detective game I’ve played,” Rachel said when she reviewed it in Early Access last year. She had some reservations about how often her cases seemed to lead to dead ends, but it was still “engaging” and “refreshing.” I only played it for a minuscule, minuscule moment. But I got a sense of how detailed the world felt, wandering through apartment buildings and the back rooms of grocery stores. Of course, that was before I broke every bone in my body.
Since its first appearance, the game has added fancy hotels, player customization tools, and a up-to-date type of killer: the sniper. A comical bug led to said snipers filling rooms with hundreds of shell casings because they kept missing their potential victims. The game’s development is fucking awesome.
We haven’t learned what hilarious and deadly pranks will be added in the upcoming version 1.0, but up-to-date features “will be revealed in the coming weeks,” according to developers ColePowered Games.
