Shadows of Doubt

Shadows of Doubt

Released Sep 2024

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!

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Shadows of Doubt launched out of Early Access on September 26, 2024. Since then, ColePowered Games has maintained a consistent pattern of substantial updates: the "Off-Duty" update shipped on April 29, 2025 (new side mission, in-game card game, cigarettes, items), the "Modifiers" update on September 18, 2025 (gameplay modifiers including Rat Detective, Snail Nemesis, Permadeath, and more), and the "Workshop" update on January 12, 2026 (full Steam Workshop support and expanded modding tools). All three of these delivered on the 2025 roadmap published in April 2025. The most recent developer communication is a video devblog published on August 10, 2026. In it, developer Cole confirms that an upcoming patch — expected before the end of August 2026 — will add quality-of-life improvements including the ability to toggle certain killer types on or off and a reworked objectives system. He also reveals that for most of 2026, the team has been working on converting the game's entire rendering system from Unity's High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) to the Universal Render Pipeline (URP), with the goal of delivering significant performance improvements, especially on lower-end systems. This is a substantial technical undertaking, though it doesn't touch gameplay code. Cole also notes that the studio is working on new projects (described as one big project, one small project, and a potential third) that are in very early stages — these appear to be separate from Shadows of Doubt rather than content additions to it. Regarding Shadows itself, the 2026 focus is on polish and quality-of-life rather than major new content, consistent with what he stated in the May 2026 devblog. He has not announced that development on Shadows of Doubt is concluding. The developer remains actively engaged with the game, with a patch imminent as of August 10, 2026, and the ongoing URP conversion representing a significant ongoing investment in the game's technical foundation.
Evidence
Developer confirms a patch is coming before the end of August 2026 with QoL improvements (togglable killer types, reworked objectives). Also reveals that most of 2026 has been spent converting the game's rendering system from HDRP to Unity's Universal Render Pipeline for performance gains. New studio projects are mentioned but are described as very early-stage.
news post · Aug 10, 2026 source development ongoing
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Developer outlines 2026 plans: focus on long-standing bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements rather than major new content, with more frequent experimental branch patch releases. Confirms new projects in early development but nothing to announce yet.
news post · May 5, 2026 source development ongoing
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Details

Publisher
Fireshine Games
Achievements
35
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

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.

Last evaluated Aug 27, 2026
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