First game I've tried to play that refuses to load.
If you decide to go with the pre generated map you can stare at loading save file sreen. Comes with empty loading bar and pulsating game logo. Exciting. Nothing will happen though, this IS the game.
If that bores you you can switch it up a bit and try to generate a level so you can end up staring the empty loading bar and "creating blocks" screen. Facinating.
I will have to sleep on if I want to refund this game or if I want to stare the either of the empty loading bars for one more hour.

i want to give this game a good review but it has issues that i just cant ignore. like the fact that murders can just straight up be unsolvable. so unless that gets fixed i dont really think i can give a good review, and hey maybe im just stupid and missing somthing really obvious.

i love the idea but i cant even get out of bed bc its so unclear. i would love to have the game but i needed to be able to move if you can help me i will love to play your game

Boring. The only interesting case is tutorial, all other cases are bland, straightforward and not engaging. Mechanics are shallow.

Every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ case i get has absolutely no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clues, ♥♥♥♥ you for wasting my time.
Playing on normal btw.

Shadows of Doubt is everything I have ever wanted in a game. SoD is an incredible detective game where you actually have to do the thinking for yourself. The case board UI is incredible and so flexible in ways that allow you to pin information in your own unique way. However that's where my compliments end. It has been just over a year since this game released into Early Access and it is still riddled with bugs.

* Fingerprints still have a chance to infinitely create new fingerprint types, making it impossible to track down the killer.
* Bodies still sometimes glitch into walls or the floor
* Killers still have no true motive (everybody is a serial killer)
* Fingerprints still aren't placed in realistic locations (the same door will have 10 fingerprints for the same person. Why are there so many? And sometimes not even on the doorknob)
*Arriving too early at a crime scene will sometimes cause the AI to freak out and run around in circles.
* The AI will sometimes get permanently stuck in a loop of moving furniture or turning on and off light switches

There are also some aspects of the game that don't make sense to me at all.

* You receive a murder case from the city hall, but the police won't let you investigate. This means the police and city hall don't work together? How does the government even function?
* City Hall keeps a data base on every single person in the city. You can simply walk to a computer and get information on every single person in the city. Shouldn't this be a tightly secured area?
* Employment Contracts keep WAY too much personal info on people that it shouldn't.
* There are no jails.

just purely boring and broken and the devs don't care to listen to the complaints. (abandoned project) every npc has a gun and randomly aggros onto you for zero reason, whats the point of the enforcers? every case is a rinse and repeat of the last, super linear, easy to solve and no satisfying reward for slogging through the cases, narrative is non-existent, money is useless besides hapless designing of an apartment? why would u want to design an apartment in this? its not even persistent. you can phase through any outside walls that go above the ground floor, so escape is linear to vents unless you want to phase through walls and get shot by security. there for some reason is stat effects that add nothing but an annoyance to gameplay. you will find guns, silencers, ammo and can even buy these things and equip them but are unable to fire? what is the point of this? you're telling me to go into a game where everyone can shoot you for no consequence or reason and you can only defend yourself by throwing a barrel or punching them several hundred times. developers for this game clearly don't care and have left this game to modders, this is incredibly lazy. the ai is so bland and each and every single npc has a repeat of the exact same dialogue so there is zero variance, leading to you playing 2 hours of carefully designed gameplay/story only to be thrown into a boring, empty worthless sandbox. if anything this game is a scam.

I have no doubt that with time and effort this game will be amazing. But at the moment it's more of a gimmick than a game. I don't say that to discourage the devs btw, I really want this game to become the ultimate detective sim.

But my problem is that the procedural case's aren't very good they are TOO random there's not really much logic to them and its basically just running everywhere around the map looking for fingerprints and they are 90% of the game atm. Honestly I think the devs should add more handcrafted cases to the game. The tutorial case was the best time I had with this game.

It seems like a great game it actually is a great game but only like 40% of the time. It's so riddled with bugs it's almost unplayable, some times bodies just randomly disappear after taking their fingerprint, people don't show up where they're supposed or items, or even whole rooms don't spawn.
The whole mechanic of having an apartment is completly useless when you can't even put items in it because they're gone after loading the game.

And i get it, it's Early Acces, but it's been a year, and the same bugs that were present on release are still here.
Buy it in like 2 years when the game is at least playable.

Great idea, too buggy to play and have fun.