Developer: ColePowered Games
Player Statistics
Updated: November 8, 2026 8:48 PMAverage players
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Shadows of Doubt player count by month
Shadows of Doubt has 299 players in-game right now, and the 24-hour peak is 299. The peak so far in November 2026 is 299 players, 172 on average.
| Month | Average players | Change | Peak players |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2026 (so far) | 172 | −50 (−22.5%) | 299 |
| October 2026 | 222 | +23 (+11.6%) | 412 |
| September 2026 | 199 | −47 (−19.1%) | 375 |
| August 2026 | 246 | +18 (+7.9%) | 472 |
| July 2026 | 228 | +1 (+0.4%) | 466 |
| June 2026 | 227 | — | 348 |
| February 2026 | 406 | — | 446 |
From SteamStat's own samples of the Steam player count since tracking began. Change compares a month's average with the month before.
At a glance
Shadows of Doubt has 299 players in-game right now, 100% of its 24-hour peak of 299. The record since SteamStat started tracking it is 472 players, set on August 4, 2026. 14,756 Steam reviews rate it “Very Positive” (82% positive). Released on September 26, 2024 by ColePowered Games. Current price: $12.49.
What players say about Shadows of Doubt
Shadows of Doubt is a highly ambitious detective simulation that offers a unique, immersive experience, particularly for players who enjoy roleplaying as a private investigator in a procedurally generated noir world. However, many players feel the 1.0 release feels unfinished, noting significant technical bugs, optimization issues, and a lack of depth that makes the core gameplay loop repetitive after the initial novelty wears off.
What players like
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Unique detective gameplay 85 of 120 reviews
Many players praise the system of building case boards, gathering evidence, and the freedom to solve mysteries.
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Immersive noir atmosphere 62 of 120 reviews
The visual style, setting, and world design create a compelling detective movie aesthetic that players find highly engaging.
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Emergent sandbox potential 48 of 120 reviews
Players enjoy the freedom to explore, break into apartments, and roleplay their own detective narratives in a persistent city.
What players criticise
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Frequent bugs and glitches 78 of 120 reviews
Reports of clipping through objects, soft-locked cases, and broken quest objectives are very common.
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Repetitive gameplay loop 55 of 120 reviews
After 10-20 hours, investigations often boil down to the same repetitive pattern of fingerprint matching and database searches.
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Poor optimization 42 of 120 reviews
Many users report significant framerate issues, particularly on larger maps or specific hardware configurations.
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Lack of NPC depth 35 of 120 reviews
NPCs are often described as robotic, uncooperative, or lacking meaningful motives, making them feel like walking information pawns.
Best for: Players who love immersive sims and noir detective fiction and are willing to overlook technical jank to roleplay their own mysteries.
Not for you if: Players who demand a polished experience, hate repetitive gameplay loops, or get frustrated by frequent bugs and technical instability.
Shadows of Doubt — questions players ask
- Is it worth the money?
- Many players suggest buying it on sale, as the current state feels like an unfinished project rather than a fully polished release.
- Does it run on Steam Deck?
- Users have reported mixed results, with some noting performance success while others highlight specific issues with controller inputs in game menus.
- Is there enough content?
- The procedural generation allows for many cases, but critics note that these cases lack variety and often feel shallow after the first few hours.
Summarised automatically from 120 English Steam reviews — helpful and recent, positive and negative — on August 29, 2026.
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 ful 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.
Supported languages: english, french, german, spanish - spain, portuguese - brazil, russian, simplified chinese, traditional chinese, japanese
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System Requirements
Windows
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: Intel 6th Gen i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 or Radeon 5500XT
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Approximate specs for 1080p, 30+ fps
- OS: Windows 11 or newer
- Processor: Intel 9th Gen i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 3500
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 3060 or Radeon RX 5700 XT
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Approximate specs for 1080p, 60+ fps
User Reviews
this game is so so fun to play. I find its so much better on a pc as I've played this on a steam deck and PS5 and I could not really get into it till now
my day job is a burglar but when i have enough diamonds in my coffers i might solve a murder because i probably robbed them too
Imagine trying to study but you're also on crack.
But also being able to fly out of the map, go through walls and disintegrate entire living beings. With bugs ofcourse.
Overall this game is really fun. The more cases you do the more you unlock (like the echelon zones)
I don't think it's fair to rate this like an actual detective game because frankly it isn't.
You are a vigilante so all of your actions are illegal.
The only complaint I have is that the easiest way to get money is extra missions in stores. Which you wouldn't think a lady pays more to find a toy then the police does to find a wanted murderer but what do I know
Buy the Game it's worth it
It's a grimy city, dark, and it rains too much, but I wouldn't want it any other way (okay, some of the missions could be more reasonable, but nobody said being a detective had to make sense)
Decent game, best detecitve game i have played, doesnt run great no matter what spec you are on and the generated cities are a bit buggy but stil great fun
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Additional Information
| Developer | ColePowered Games |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Age rating | None |
| Release date | September 26, 2024 |
| User reviews | 82% positive (14756) |
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