Community5 May 2026DevBlog 45🚨📰 Extra Extra, a new Shadows of Doubt video DevBlog has just been released 📰🚨 In this latest blog, Cole outlines his plans for 2026 and drops some hints at what is coming next 🤫 Watch the full update below 👇 Transcript Welcome to a new video Dev blog. So I haven't really been doing many developer updates, not in this format, for a while now, since Shadows was kind of still in the design…
Hi Detectives! The Shadows of Doubt Steam Workshop is now live! Stretch your creative muscles as well as your detective ones with new modding tools and full Steam Workshop support. These new workshop tools allow you to create your own citizen conversations, v-mails and newspaper articles. Change certain in-game item properties like weapons, books and consumables. The Dialogue & Player Interacti…
Hello detectives! We have a brand new update for you all with a bunch of fixes. Check out the specifics below; · Revamped camera image saving system; photographs you take in game now should be completely accurate when you load save games as we have switched to a system that saves image data to disk. Fixes · Fixed: Crime scene tape appearance is now represented properly in CCTV images. · Fixed:…
Hi Detectives! You can now activate new modifiers that change the way you play the game. Including… Snail Nemesis You are immortal… However, somewhere, a snail is always slowly moving towards you. If it touches you, you die instantly. Rat detective You are the “Rat Detective”. You are only 10cm tall. You can climb on walls and ceilings. You can sneak past people and make less noise. However, if…
Hey detectives. It is new patch time! With some new fixes ahead of our next content update which is coming soon 🕵️ · Fixed: At least one case of unresponsive UI when pinning CCTV print-outs. · Fixed: Days of the week now abbreviated when appropriate in most non-ENG languages. · Fixed: Discovering an employment contract did not update the citizen’s address details. · Fixed: Discovering an walle…
Hello detectives! The “Off-Duty” update is live now! This is our first content update of 2025. You can now get into the detective spirit and chill with a pack of smokes when a case just gets too demanding (we do not recommend this in real life 😅) Want to relax after a long day of sleuthing? Try a round of the brand-new digital card game, Wizards. A fantasy-themed grid-based card game. Be the f…
Hello detectives! As we've mentioned in a previous dev blog, the Shadows of Doubt investigations are continuing throughout the year. We are happy to now show you our 2025 development case board outlining our upcoming updates and patches! The first update lands on Tuesday, the 29th of April. This update adds a new side mission, the ability to smoke, a new in-game card game and new items. Along w…
We’re excited to announce that Shadows of Doubt is part of the London Games Festival event on Steam! London is one of the most diverse, vibrant, and creative cities on the planet—and its games industry is no different. Games London’s mission is to make London the games capital of the world, supporting local businesses, connecting developers with investors, and hosting the UK’s biggest games eve…
Hello detectives! This is a follow-up blog from the last one where I discussed new content for Shadows in 2025. We have fleshed out some plans now and I wanted to share a little on what we're working on for the game this year. If you haven't already, I recommend reading the last blog post for some content: Mainly that we have decided to not add anything massive as to do so would likely cause is…
Hey detectives, time to investigate a fresh patch for you all after checking it out on the experimental branch. More news to come on the plans for the year soon as well! · Much improved mini-map rendering speed · Fixed: Citizens could become stuck in a loop cleaning up receipts from the floor in their home if certain conditions were met. · Fixed: In certain circumstances the player could give i…
Hey folks, we have another new experimental patch for you all. Experimental Branch: These builds are only found on our ‘experimental’ steam branch. You can access this by right clicking the game in your steam library, choosing ‘properties’, then the ‘betas’ tab. The experimental build should be in the dropdown list. Experimental builds may be less tested than the default branch builds. Most exp…
Hey Detectives, another patch incoming now with some more fixes ahead of the holiday season. · Fixed: Some number pad selection issues while using a controller (using D-Pad selection moves the virtual cursor) · Fixed: Missing Work ID and Wallet in Tutorial · Fixed: Incorrect citizen age calculation · Fixed: Number keys pull up inventory items during cruncher passcode entry (as they are also hot…
Hello detectives! It’s been a couple of months since the launch of 1.0 and I wanted to share a general update to talk about what you can expect next year. First off, I’m extremely pleased to announce that Shadows of Doubt is part of this year’s Jingle Jam games bundle; a fundraising initiative with a collection of games available for donations over £35. All money goes to some excellent causes.…
Hello Detectives, we have a fresh batch of patch notes with a new suite of bug fixes for you all. The work continues in the background towards making the best version of Shadows of Doubt possible and more patches are on the way. Thank you for your continued support folks · Fixed: Apartment storage items missing on load game · Fixed: Player movement could sometimes become restricted when crouche…
Greetings detectives, unlike the cold weather we are beginning to get for the holiday season, the cases remain hot with our community sleuths on the job! Let’s take a look at what you all have been up to recently: Speaking of hot cases, check out this monster case board from Reddit u/DankSpiritCase. Complete with an accompanying rundown of the investigation and we are happy to hear there is ano…
Hey detectives! We hope you’ve been enjoying the cooler weather and spooky season so far this October. Our team is still hard at work squashing bugs and we want to thank everyone who has been so patient and excited to be on this investigation with us. It’s been a huge technical endeavour for us as such a small team and your reports have been an amazing help in our public bug list. We aren’t don…
Hey detectives, we've got a new patch for you all with a host of fixes that should improve your playing experience! Cole and the small team here have been hard at work trying to squash those hard to find and replicate bugs. As always you can see the existing bug list and what Cole is working on here · Fixed: Loading screen getting stuck at ‘Simulating Past Events’ on Casablanca Quarter (it was…
Hey detectives, we are pushing the most recent experimental build live on the main branch now. We are hard at work on another patch that we should have ready for you early next week. You can check what Cole is working on with the public bug list here: · Fixed: Cover-Up calls and a couple of other instances would list details of past murders instead of the immediate one · Fixed: Cover-up calls c…
Hey folks, we have another new experimental patch for you all. Cole and the team are hard at work cracking through the most pressing issues but also the issues that are addressable to try and improve the playing experience for as many as possible as quickly as possible. We hope that some of these fixes will be a step in the right direction on this front! Please do see the public bug list with c…
Hey folks, just pushing the most recent experimental build live to default now after checking for any additional issues there. We are hard at work on another patch that we should have ready for you early next week. You can check what Cole is working on with the public bug list here: Patch Notes: · Elevator controls interaction changed to primary action button · To avoid input focus issues you c…
Hey folks, we have a new patch with some quick fixes we have been working on over the weekend. We are just pushing this to experimental for now but if no issues get flagged with it then we will be able to push it to default later this week. In the meantime we are cracking on with the next patch and will continue to do so for the forseeable to keep on making this game as bug free as is possible.…
It's launch day detectives! Today marks our official transition out of early access and into, 1.0. I'm immensely pleased with what the team has put together over the last 8 years (!) Or so. You can view our 1.0 changelog here, which arrives as by far our biggest one yet. We can now also welcome console players to the fray on Xbox and PS5. What does this mean practically? We've finished making t…
New: Cover-ups! A new late game optional twist; the killer may contact you and ask you to dispose of bodies in exchange for large sums of cash. · New: Kidnapping cases! Instead of a being killed, you have a chance to find the kidnapper’s den and save the victim. · New: Draggable ragdoll bodies · New: Laboratory company type with new items and furniture* · New: Working Umbrella! · New: 2 additio…
Hey Detectives, So Shadows of Doubt is launching in around 24 hours now. The countdown is on and what an incredibly milestone for our small team. This post will outline some key information ahead of the release so please do give it a read! Launch time on the 26th of September on PC & PlayStation · 9am PST · 12pm EST · 4pm UTC · 5pm BST · 6pm CEST · 27th @ 2am AEST New community bug tracking sys…
Well, detectives, we are approaching the end of our Summertime investigations but the 1.0 release isn't far away and what better way to celebrate than having the Steam Deck version of Shadows of Doubt officially verified! As some of you may know, one of the bigger features we’ve mentioned coming to 1.0 is a new case type named “Missing Persons”. Where did they go, who took them and can you save…
Hey folks, as one experimental patch leaves and joins the default branch, we have a brand new experimental for you all. Experimental Branch: These builds are only found on our ‘experimental’ steam branch. You can access this by right clicking the game in your steam library, choosing ‘properties’, then the ‘betas’ tab. The experimental build should be in the dropdown list. Experimental builds ma…
A host of fixes that have come through the experimental branch for you all plus a new fix for some vent issues that should go a long way to making your sleuthing more enjoyable! Also - we are now officially verified on Steam Deck which is fantastic as the hard work continues towards the 1.0 release. · More improvements to stuttering when navigating between areas · More memory leak fixes · Some…
Happy launch month, detectives. The team here are hard at work as we get closer to launch but we still have a roundup of what has been happening in the community over the last month for you all: Last month, We began some fun detective polls over on our X page that will help us find out what kind of detectives you really are, so be sure to follow and participate! In other news, Discord Detective…
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