Shadows of Doubt
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 22.2h
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 or Radeon 5500XT, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $12.49. That was September 2025. It has been discounted 30 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Eldritch ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats The Precinct ($29.99, scores 57).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 27 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 316 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,059 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 22.2 hours; clearing it takes 59, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
48% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
198 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 22:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I tried love this game, but in its current state it just makes me sad. Instead of focusing on the unique selling point of this game, the actual cases and procedural content, the devs are preoccupied with graphics and the absolutely irrelevant "survival" mechanics. You end up with cases that quite monotonous and, and occasionally impossible and nothing is being done to fix it. I love the deductive genre, games like...
This game is unfinished in the most frustrating way. Information you get from asking people is too vague to be useful, and the on paper information is either useful or not. You will constantly overshoot your expectations of how complicated a case is. And the mechanics of the game do not lend itself to exploring a case in any interesting way. Your dialogue options are extremely limited. Find the kidnap victim on...
Hell will freeze over, crumble into dust and be rebuilt atom by atom by a single tortured, restless soul before the devs push any meaningful content updates or bug fixes that don't soft-lock you into a state not unlike purgatory where you are left stumbling through half familiar streets and completing jobs with the strongest sense of deja-vu until the end of time. The game has so much potential, I loved it when I...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shadows of Doubt scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/986130/shadows-of-doubtReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Oct 1.
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