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The Shapeshifting Detective is a supernatural murder mystery FMV game where you play as a detective who can shapeshift into other characters, allowing you to unlock secret conversations and private encounters.

The Shapeshifting Detective is a fmv, adventure and indie game developed by D'Avekki Studios Ltd and Wales Interactive and published by Wales Interactive.
Released on November 06th 2018 is available on Windows and MacOS in 12 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish - Spain, Hungarian, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese and Korean.

It has received 1,563 reviews of which 1,209 were positive and 354 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.58€ on Steam with a 69% discount, but you can find it for 1.00€ on Instant Gaming.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 32-bit
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 11.0 compatible video card
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 6 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS 10.13+ 64-bit
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated graphics
  • Storage: 6 GB available space

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March 2025
3/5 It´s alright. Nothing close to Late Shift or The Complex but it´s fun. Great ambient music. Actors are nice. Interesting characters. Story is good. Fun shapeshifting mechanic. Have a nice day.
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Jan. 2025
to be fair, quite good. 8/10 plot was decent, acting a bit cheesy but overall fun play.
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Sept. 2024
Had a lot of fun with this game. The actors had a lot of fun with their characters with some hilarious interactions. Spent a few hours finding Easter eggs!
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July 2024
I bought The Shapeshifting Detective because some of the actors were the same as in Contradiction , which I enjoyed despite its flaws, and I can say the same thing is true for this game. The actors were doing a good job for the most part, even if Robert Booth (the Chief) seemingly has to overact every scene and character he plays. It's passable, though, because he feels genuinely invested and I'll take that over boring underacting in FMV games. As for the story, it was interesting enough to motivate me to finish the game in 3 1/2 hours in one sitting, gaining the "Find the killer on your 1st playthrough" achievement in the process. I don't think it is hard to do, it just means that you have to use the game's unique "shapeshifting" mechanic quite a lot and sometimes "jump" into the same characters multiple times per chapter, if it feels like it could reveal something. That's all there is to the gameplay as well, so if the story and they way it is presented isn't appealing to you in the first 10 minutes, I'd say you probably won't enjoy the rest of the game. Overall, a good FMV game. I am not interested in replaying it (and since I got probably the best ending or one of the best endings, I don't see a reason to), but since I got it on sale for 3€ I think it was totally worth it.
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May 2024
Picked this game up because I had a couple bucks in my wallet I needed to spend. Honestly wasn't expecting much of anything out of it. Boy was I wrong. Completely blew me away. Great game!
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The Shapeshifting Detective
7.4
1,209
354
Online players
1
Developer
D'Avekki Studios Ltd, Wales Interactive
Publisher
Wales Interactive
Release 06 Nov 2018
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