Play Time: This game will take between 23 hours and 33 hours to complete.

This is a single-player game.

 
You can play this game in the following styles:

• Player vs. Computer Players
• Player vs. Computer Challenge

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Most of the horror plot elements land closer to Scooby-Do and Ghostbusters than Call of Cthulhu, and the instances that depict violent or gory acts are of events that have already happened when you arrive (ie static scene, like a pool of blood), but it is worth noting despite the cute graphics and humor that the original source material is fairly disturbing.

Skill Rating

12+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it's important for parents and guardians to consider the maturity required to process the game content. There's a lot of reading in the game, and the sense of humour isn't to everyone's taste. But for those that like the silly characters and scenarios there's a lot to enjoy.

Shadows Over Loathing usually costs £19.99.
 

Shadows Over Loathing

There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.

Our Shadows Over Loathing Accessibility Report documents 38 accessibility features:
Shadows Over Loathing is a comedy game and has some settings in the options menu that are presented in such a way as to be funny or even only exist for comedic effect, so if you encounter an option that doesn't seem to do anything significant, it is probably intended for fun. Example: HDR Rendering (High Dynamic Range Rendering)- This is a graphics setting that isn't relevant in a game with only black and white line art, it's so unnecessary that it is absurd and there as a joke.

There are 5 difficulty options (Easy, Relaxed, Normal, Hard, and Eleven).

There is a lot of text in the game, a large portion of gameplay is reading story vignettes and sometimes choosing responses, and most of the text in the game is very clear and high contrast, but lands on small side of the acceptable range accessible text. However, the menu text that has a lot of relevant information for gameplay (such as your inventory, character sheet, journal, effects and perks on your character, and your abilities in combat) uses a text size that is smaller than is comfortable.

Only the Keyboard controls can be remapped, not gamepad or mouse inputs. The game is 2D and doesn't use the type of movement usually associated with the "Invert X-Y Axis" option, but it does have the option to invert the Y-axis, which swaps up and down inputs.

You are able to access the chalkboard in the Detective Agency at any time to look at your to-do list for your Main Quest and any side quests you have officially accepted. Some side quests will not be tracked automatically but you can take notes on the chalkboard as well. The game will provide recall assist by recapping details frequently. You can change the difficulty at any time, and failing a battle multiple times gives you a temporary complete the challenge.

In the options menu the game offers and Arachnophobia option, which makes it where you won't encounter any spiders. It also has an Arachnophilia mode, which states "you will encounter so many spiders" and unlocks spider-specific content in the game.

We haven't documented diversity and inclusion information for this game yet.