Shadows of Doubt Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-03-20
- Unique detective gameplay and engaging interactions.
- Varied case-solving methods and enjoyable experience.
- Excellent game concept with a noir atmosphere.
- Frequent bugs, crashes, and technical issues.
- Repetitive and unsolvable cases, feels unfinished.
- Poor NPC interactions and lack of updates.
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 17,071
- Positive
- 14,11682.7%
- Negative
- 2,95517.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,232,659
- Estimated revenue
- $30,804,148
- Game price
- $25
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 943.76%
- Estimated copies lost
- 6,788
- Estimated revenue lost
- $169,632
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 943.8% Avg playtime 0.9h | 331.3% Avg playtime 1.2h |
| > 2h playtime | 56322.5% Avg playtime 31.1h | 1,81272.4% Avg playtime 43.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 5.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 130.8 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,060.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
2,502 total
Organic purchasers1,96778.6%
Voted up: 73%
Key activations53521.4%
Voted up: 75%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
2,502 total
First impression0-2h1576.27%
Voted up: 36%
Mid game2-10h62725.1%
Voted up: 73%
Late game10-20h56822.7%
Voted up: 74%
Endgame20h+1,15046.0%
Voted up: 79%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
68.6%
Global baseline 73.7%
35 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 17,071 total.