Shadows of Doubt is without a doubt one of, if not the best in it's genre. The game introduces a deep investigation system, procedural city and npc generation and more while running surprisingly well for it's scale. If you ever feel like immersing yourself in a noir world and solving crimes like a true detective, this is the game for you. Although the game is entirely procedural, the cases can get repetitive or even too simple after you understand how things work because you already know where to look for clues. Overall, Shadows of Doubt offers an immersive and suprising investigative experience, it's a must-have to all lovers of the genre.

Unique game but it's more of a prototype, it's unfinished in this state which is understandable considering the scope of the game.

Shadows of Doubt is a detective, imersive sim game that contains great atmosphere with great environmental sounds, it has very attractive detective board with buttons and threads, it is a really systemic game, in this game you have freedom in choice of how you are going to solve cases, this game generates worlds and cases and I am sure that this generative thing took hundreds of hours to program and make sure it works correctly. But anyway, at the end of the day it is a bad game. Let me explain why.Firstly, I believe that the problem in this game is the fact that developers forced worlds and cases generation in it. If you add it to a game then it is going to be a sandbox game. What are the most important part of sandbox games? It is exploration, take a look at the most successful sandbox games: Minecraft, No man sky, ARK, Forest, Terraria, what do they have in common? They all have a lot to explore and gameplay is not repetitive. On the other hand SoD (Shadows of Doubt) is really repetitive, after the first case I did not want to continue solving cases, the only thing that I wanted to do is to check/explore different spots and places in it, I tried to do it and it was not at all fun because everthing is the same, repetitive and game did not want you to explore it in this way, but sandbox games are really about exploring the world in this ****, sandbox games are different from others not only in exploration, but also in possibility to build something. SoD does not have it, someone might say that there is a mechanic of decorating you apartment, but it is not the same.That is why I believe that the central problem of this detective game is the fact that developers decided to make it a sandbox game. Secondly, User Interface is a real mess. Sometimes one part of it is upon another, like an arrow that guides you, it is located underneath another part of UI. Another issue is that sometimes UI is that big that you can not see what item you are looking at, when I want to take up a key, a lot of UI parts get upon it and I do not see this key at all. Another issue is bugs, there are a lot of bugs in UI, it make player's experience even worse.Thirdly, let's try to go beyond the sandbox game and look for things that are appreciated in non sandbox games. Plot/Story, there is no main plot/story. Characters, you do not get to know them and you are not interested to know them. In the end we have a game that has repetitive, not interesting gameplay, not interesting and not in any way attractive story and characters and not good sandbox game **** far as I am concerned, developers could tear apart generation mechanic and create linear narrative game with interesting characters, engaging story and sometimes appearing hard choices and this would be a great **** case they wanted to create sandbox game they should choose another genre for such a game. P.S. I really believe that this game is very overrated