Shadows Over Loathing
Released Nov 2022
Shadows over Loathing — a slapstick-figure comedy adventure-RPG full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries.
96% positive · 3,299 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
Steam $22.99
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Evaluation
Shadows Over Loathing launched on November 11, 2022 as a complete, self-contained comedy RPG. All eight developer news posts since launch are bug fix patches — there have been no major content releases, no DLC announcements, no roadmaps, and no season passes. The store description presents the game as a finished product with a clear beginning, middle, and end, and makes no mention of planned expansions or ongoing content.
The most recent developer communication was a small patch on October 16, 2025, which addressed a Unity engine security vulnerability and a handful of minor gameplay issues. A March 5, 2024 patch note mentioned the team is "hard at work on more Loathing projects," but this refers to future games in the Loathing universe — not additional content for Shadows Over Loathing itself.
With no DLC ever listed, no post-launch content expansions shipped, no future content announced for this title, and a consistent pattern of maintenance-only patches, the game launched as a finished product and remains complete. The completion date is the original release date.
Evidence
Store description presents Shadows Over Loathing as a complete, standalone RPG adventure with no mention of DLC, expansions, or ongoing content.
Seventh patch released, addressing a Unity engine security vulnerability and minor gameplay tweaks. Most recent official communication from the developer.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Asymmetric
Achievements
37
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player
About this game
Mobsters, monsters, and mysteries — welcome to Shadows Over Loathing, the shady side of an already black-and-white world, and a follow-up to the award-winning West of Loathing.
Your Uncle Murray has requested your aid at his antique shop in Ocean City, but upon your arrival the old man is nowhere to be found. Your investigation into his disappearance and the artifacts he’s been collecting takes a turn when you stumble across some shadowy plots (and a bunch of squirming eldritch tentacles) that threaten to bring about the end of the world.
Explore a sprawling open world chock full of danger, quests, puzzles, and stick figures in this single-player comedy adventure/RPG set in the prohibition era of the Loathing universe. See how many enemies you can stuff into a phone booth as the athletic Pig Skinner, control the curds and whey of the cosmos as the cunning Cheese Wizard, or march to the beat of your own inscrutable purposes as the hip Jazz Agent.
Features:
Your Uncle Murray has requested your aid at his antique shop in Ocean City, but upon your arrival the old man is nowhere to be found. Your investigation into his disappearance and the artifacts he’s been collecting takes a turn when you stumble across some shadowy plots (and a bunch of squirming eldritch tentacles) that threaten to bring about the end of the world.
Explore a sprawling open world chock full of danger, quests, puzzles, and stick figures in this single-player comedy adventure/RPG set in the prohibition era of the Loathing universe. See how many enemies you can stuff into a phone booth as the athletic Pig Skinner, control the curds and whey of the cosmos as the cunning Cheese Wizard, or march to the beat of your own inscrutable purposes as the hip Jazz Agent.
Features:
- Thousands and thousands of jokes, gags, and goofs
- A bunch more locations, items, friends, foes, and familiars than West of Loathing
- The same quality line art you’ve come to expect, but way more of it
- Superior stick-figure customization
- Strategic turn-based combat (but only if you want it)
- A corrupt government for you to overthrow at your leisure
- Authentically baffling 1920s slang
- Multiple cursed antiques
- Inappropriate fishing
- Non-Euclidean horrors from beyond the edges of the screen
- A time-travel side-quest given to you by your future-self
- An infinitely tall building
- Sentient math, talking frogs, and pettable cats
- No booze, as far as the feds know
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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