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PC Gamer: Cyberpunk Detective Game is Like an Endless Deus Ex

21 Apr 2023

PC Gamer: Cyberpunk Detective Game is Like an Endless Deus Ex

PC Gamer: Cyberpunk Detective Game is Like an Endless Deus Ex

Author: Gothic Wizard  /  Categories: Other Cyberpunk Game, Article/OpEd  /  Rate this article:
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Shadow of Doubt is a retro style cyberpunk detective game now in early access that PC Gamer has a preview of. Here is a snip;


Shadows of Doubt, which is out on April 24 in early access, had led me up the garden path. The murder of Matthew Parker—Qiao's unfortunate husband—was just another in a line of crimes that the game had procedurally generated as I explored its world. The victims selected and evidence scattered according to the whims of an algorithm, red herrings and all.

Although I'm meant to be a hard-bitten cyberpunk private eye, picking up word of murders on the scanner and solving them for cash, I'd made a rookie error. I'd focused on the parts that did fit over the seemingly minor details that didn't. I couldn't explain why, for example, Qiao would drop an incoherent note ranting about a promotion next to the body of her husband, but I was sure it'd all come together in the end. More fool me. Hoist by my own procgen petard.
 


 
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