Shadows of Doubt

I want to love this game, the ideas behind it are great, and at it's best it's a lot of fun, and there's nothing else like it. Unfortunately this game is a technical trainwreck: - The biggest problem is the bugs. This game frequently doesn't work as it's supposed to. Quest items don't spawn (or fall through the level or something), searching for people you already have detailed info on shows no results, you progress through a case only for it to fail to load the next stage, your city generates without a sync clinic, the list goes on. - The evidence that cases start with doesn't seem to be doled out with any consideration as to how useful that evidence is. For example a name, address, or phone number is very useful information, but someone's height or shoe size is not very useful. Sometimes the cases are generated with evidence that is near impossible to follow up on, like someone's build, height, and blood type. - The game does a poor job of communicating how core mechanics work (arrests and briefcases, for example), so don't feel bad about referring back to the forums when things aren't clear. - The performance is awful. On this laptop it's basically unplayable (mostly because the lag causes inputs to get stuck), but even on competent gaming machines there are frequent hiccoughs and stutters. For what the game is, this is surprising and annoying. These are things you would expect to be addressed when moving to a full release, but it seems this game never got past these problems.

Everytime I try to play this game I get reminded why I don't List of bugs I've experienced Falling through elevators NPCs floating in the air through elevators NPCs having wallhacks NPCs in a perpetual loop of trying to do a task but failing due to the map generation being buggy THE SYNC CLINIC NOT ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SPAWNING NPCs sleeping in bed's upside down. Windows being one-way Many more I have probably forgotten about over the years. If the devs kept this game in early access like they would have this would be positive since the game is actually fun, but they decided to be jewish and release it while the game is bare bones on content and infested with bugs. ♥♥♥♥ this dev team.

I have no idea how the reviews for this are so positive. most cases are impossible to solve through any kind of deduction and just require brute force, like breaking into every apartment in the game and scanning for fingerprints or looking for everyone whose first name starts with a certain letter. I've restarted the tutorial 3 times now, and it's been completely unsolvable every time. victim made a call to an unlisted number, the number I get from checking the last call on their phone gives me a person who won't tell me anything, going to the diner doesn't help because even if I get lucky and there's a way into the back room that isn't in line of sight for someone 24/7, there is someone sitting at the computer, and even if I beat that person unconcious, it turns out that all I get from the computer is a picture of the victim eating dinner. I've read the contact list and correspondence for the victim, broken into all their contacts' homes, read all THEIR correspondence and their address book, and even started breaking into the contacts' contacts' homes, until I realised that it was probably just completely broken and gave up. really, really great idea, just not fun at all. also has the longest load times of any game I've played in the modern day, which for a game that often requires you to load every few seconds means there will be time where you're 'playing' for a half hour and actually play less than 5 minutes.

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i was in the same apartment when a murder happened and the killer was neither person in the apartment at the time. I hope case generation can be improved in the future, but as it stands, I think it's clear why immersive sims are often tailored and designed and not RNG

I am fairly divided on this game. It is a bare not recommend from me. It has not changed much since Early Access - the core mechanics have remained the same, only one major building type has been added (the hotel), and the game is still a bit buggy at times, both in the environment and in decorating your flat. Most importantly for me, though, some things really break the immersion. In my last game, I chose to start from nothing - no apartment, to see if I could make it from the bottom. Well, I do have an apartment now - because I stole a lot. I just happened to find several diamonds, and each diamond paid much more than the side jobs I had to take while I was waiting for a second murder to happen (which is another issue). There is something wrong if stealing becomes a more viable alternative than being a detective in a detective game. I am not encouraged to come back to this game - the promise was in solving cases, which (as other people have pointed out) play out quite similarly to each other after a while. Having said this, the idea is still sound. With more variety, this game could become a real masterpiece. The ambience and lore are still quite interesting (alternate timeline with equally alternate 70s tech); some cases end up being convoluted and fun to solve; and it is fun at the start to do illegal stuff while solving murders. The novelty wears down after a while, but maybe pick this up on sale to make this worth your money.

Can’t recommend on steam deck. Game breaking bug that prevents progression when computer password entry is required. Double entry of digits when selected once

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