Shadows of Doubt
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (38%); after 10h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 49% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
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Based on all 18,008 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 23.2h for positive, 11.9h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (48.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (35)
story milestone ending side
- Easy Pickings Find a hidden door key 100%
- Fresh as a Daisy Have a shower to remove stinkiness 84%
- Nosy Parker 100% complete a citizen profile 49%
- Rise & Shine Complete the ‘Dead of Night’ case 46%
- Free Healthcare Escape from hospital without paying your medical fee 42%
- It’s all Connected! Pin 100 unique things to your case board(s) in a single game 41%
- Coming Through! KO someone by barging through a door 40%
- A Place to Hang Your Hat Buy a new apartment 35%
- Not the Answer Complete a murder case without violence 22%
- Dumpster Diver Search through the trash 20 times 21%
- Private Sly Complete a murder case without being seen trespassing 17%
- Room 237 Hire a hotel room 16%
- Shafted Fall down an elevator shaft from 4 floors up 12%
- Too Old for This Retire 10%
- Gone Daddy Gone Pay back the starch kola sync disk loan 10%
- Reunited Return a lost item 9.2%
- Jump the Shark KO a debt collector 9.0%
- Sleeping with the Fishes Steal a gun and throw it in the sea 8.6%
- Thin Disguise Hide from a pursuer using a newspaper 8.4%
- Shark Bait Take out a loan from a loan shark 4.5%
- Not a Scratch Retire without getting KO’d 4.3%
- Diamonds Aren’t Forever Throw an expensive item through a hotel room’s window 4.3%
- Toilet Terror Use a door wedge to trap somebody in a bathroom 3.7%
- Beer Goggles Detect a fingerprint while highly inebriated 2.3%
- Slimy Foe Get killed by the snail nemesis. 2.1%
- Clean as a Whistle Put 100 junk items in the trash 1.8%
- Pacifist Retire without KO’ing anybody 1.8%
- Fully Synchronised Install all sync disks in a single game 1.6%
- Kola King Drink 100 kolas 1.2%
- Rat Catcher Solve a murder case as a rat. 1.2%
- Caffiend Drink 100 coffees 1.0%
- Lord of the Croque Eat 100 Croque Monsieurs 0.8%
- Donut Duke Eat 100 donuts 0.8%
- Spare No One KO everybody in the city at least once 0.6%
- Out of the Red Pay off your debt 0.4%