Voxel cyberpunk whodunnit Shadows of Doubt to bring modding tools

Procedurally generated voxel worlds and cyberpunk are not things you’d think go together, but Early Access game Shadows Of Doubt melds the concepts together to create a brand new, sneaky, randomised murder-mystery thriller every time you play through.

The game has been in early access since April 2023, with steady development and solid communication from the developer, ColePowered Games. A recent post from over on the Steam Community news hub announced plans to launch modding tools for the community, including ways of renaming assets, editing in-game text, and a version of the game compiled in Mono to open up more modding opportunities at the small cost of performance.

Quoth the team:

• A text editor tool – which you can use to add new text to the game for new citizen chatter, conversations, v-mails and more. Different dialog can be triggered based on citizen traits and situation. This is actually what we use to get text in the game.
• An in-game city editor – for now this will only give you the ability to rename buildings and streets and decide where you want to place the buildings but we hope to expand it in the future
• A mono build – we are going to make a mono version of the game available on a separate open Steam branch so that players can mod the game to their heart’s desire. The mono version will have slightly lower performance so we didn’t want to put it on the default branch but hopefully you will be able to have some fun with it.
• There will also be a few other things coming unrelated to mods that we have been working on that we will keep secret for now
• Finally – we will also be implementing Steam achievements as well! We can’t wait for you to have fun with these.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/986130/view/3820802116158910578

The game will also gain some Steam achievements for those of you missing that sweet sweet gamification. This is also a great big step towards preparing the game for TBA launch.

You can grab your fix of detective fantasy over on Steam in anticipation of this update, with the game 20% off in the Steam Autumn sale.