Shadows Over Loathing

Shadows Over Loathing

Asymmetric · 2022 · Adventure, RPG, Point & Click, Puzzle, Turn-Based Strategy

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About Shadows Over Loathing

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Investigate your missing uncle and uncover eldritch conspiracies in this prohibition-era comedy RPG set in a darkly absurd black-and-white world full of monsters, mobsters, and mysteries. Explore an expansive open world with hundreds of quests, strategic turn-based combat, and thousands of jokes as you choose from three unique character classes to save the world from cosmic horror.

Mobsters, monsters, and mysteries — welcome to Shadows Over Loathing, the shady side of an already black-and-white world, and a follow-up to the award-winning West of Loathing.

Your Uncle Murray has requested your aid at his antique shop in Ocean City, but upon your arrival the old man is nowhere to be found. Your investigation into his disappearance and the artifacts he’s been collecting takes a turn when you stumble across some shadowy plots (and a bunch of squirming eldritch tentacles) that threaten to bring about the end of the world.

Explore a sprawling open world chock full of danger, quests, puzzles, and stick figures in this single-player comedy adventure/RPG set in the prohibition era of the Loathing universe. See how many enemies you can stuff into a phone booth as the athletic Pig Skinner, control the curds and whey of the cosmos as the cunning Cheese Wizard, or march to the beat of your own inscrutable purposes as the hip Jazz Agent.

Features:
  • Thousands and thousands of jokes, gags, and goofs
  • A bunch more locations, items, friends, foes, and familiars than West of Loathing
  • The same quality line art you’ve come to expect, but way more of it
  • Superior stick-figure customization
  • Strategic turn-based combat (but only if you want it)
  • A corrupt government for you to overthrow at your leisure
  • Authentically baffling 1920s slang
  • Multiple cursed antiques
  • Inappropriate fishing
  • Non-Euclidean horrors from beyond the edges of the screen
  • A time-travel side-quest given to you by your future-self
  • An infinitely tall building
  • Sentient math, talking frogs, and pettable cats
  • No booze, as far as the feds know

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 5, 2026
WOL but during the prohibition, not as good as WOL but more open-ended and with even more secrets and little side quests
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Recommended Jul 17, 2026
good
Recommended Jul 16, 2026
Really funny game. I came back after watching a ytber doing 100% of West of loathing and finished this game after realizing that i hadn't. I went with a moxie build and one tapped the final boss which was really cool. Overall 10/10 only wish that the new game would come out tmmw that way i could finish it.
Recommended Jul 16, 2026
They say man does not fear the shadows, for what they truly fear is the unknown. And thus I fear Billy the maize protectorate, for I do not know who 𝘪𝘵 is.
Recommended Jul 15, 2026
lovely game
Recommended Jul 6, 2026
Fun, well written, and very entertaining.

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