Deceptive Shadows: Final Case puts its only witness in a glowing circle and lets it lie
Queen Game Studio's top-down noir horror lights its city with torch beams and asks you to trust a demon.
By Nell Brannigan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
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Deceptive Shadows: Final Case is lit almost entirely by things the detective is carrying. A torch beam here, a pair of red tail lights there. Everything outside those pools is black, and Queen Game Studio seems perfectly happy to leave it that way. The studio describes a story-driven, top-down survival horror set in a city it calls Sin City. A girl named Klara is missing, and the only witness is a captured demon who claims to know what happened to her and who, by the Steam page's account, will flatter, manipulate and hide lies inside believable answers. You interrogate it, follow its leads...