A Shot in the Dark – Part 1
A Shot in the Dark is a choice-driven adult visual novel about new possibilities and dark secrets. Navigate romance, relationships, and rivalry as a young man during your first semester of college. Can you make a fresh start, or will the past catch up with you?
A mystery to solve
You play as a young man hoping to make a fresh start in college. But when a sorority girl goes missing, any hope of a normal semester disappears along with her. Will you be able to solve the mystery of her disappearance before it’s too late?
Your choices matter
Choose wisely. There is no right or wrong. There is no one "happy path." From the first chapter to the last, your decisions can have permanent impacts on the story. Many branching story paths—each with its own joys and tragedies—will eventually lead you to one of the multiple endings.
Compelling characters
Ten main love interests represent a variety of body types, personalities, and skin tones. Your choices will decide how each relationship progresses and whether lewd scenes are revealed. Additional romanceable characters will be included based on Patron polling and requests.
Transparent gameplay
The mystery is in the story, not the gameplay. You will always know what aspects of the game your choices affect, for optimal replayability. No grinding or pointless minigames to stretch out the content. Every mechanic is designed to move the story forward, not to slow it down.
Game Discussion
Steam User 4
This game is really good. Solid writing, with rare typos. Very hot babes. Up there with the very best I've played.
Steam User 2
This game is awesome, looking forward to future updates.
Steam User 3
This is why I generally hate EA games... many are trash, but the cliffhanger of Chapter 4.... and then I look to see that the dev plans 9 chapters.... ok, digging in. So, for those that want the beautiful women, great animations, and se*y scenes... Shot in the Dark has those. For those who want a compelling story to go along with the fore mentioned awesomeness.... it has that too. What's behind the door?!?! Anyway, rant complete. Buy this game. Support the dev. I liked the past Suburbia games, but this is next level. A favorite... as long as they finish! Cheers!
Steam User 0
Great story telling, great graphics, Love this title!
Steam User 2
This one is really good. I enjoyed the story, the scenes and the wide variety of choices. Definitely looking forward to more updates.
Steam User 0
A Shot in the Dark is an adult visual novel by ViM Studios.
It is choice driven.
It is still in early access.
I didn't encounter any bugs.
The graphics are great.
There isn't any mini-games.
There is a section where you can choose which rooms to enter in your chosen order, but it isn't a free roam area.
The back button works and the mouse-wheel works with controlling the text also.
The skip option works with both read and unread text.
The save game option works with the standard 6 slot with many pages.
The achievements all work.
To get all the achievements it will take a few runs to complete them all.
It is a good visual novel.
Steam User 1
Story 8
Gameplay 8
Models 8
Scenes 8
Replayability 10
Score 42
Recommend YES
Story
It is a good story, you're a young guy in first year at college and get to go around with your camera and pretty girls let you take pictures of them…like that's a thing. I think I'm just a little miffed because (without giving away any spoilers) I spent most of the first chapter building a relationship with one girl for her to disappear! This is one where the story definitely improves over time.
Gameplay
The photography aspect is good, and there are lots of choices. But no free roam or search and find. There is a phone though where you can text, go on social media and a dating site which is good.
Models
Not the worst I've seen, they mostly all have massive or large breasts which seems silly to moan at but where's the uniqueness. Good diversity and very well rendered.
Scenes
No audio and limited motion, there is an option to replay each mini scene within the scene though. 1 scene with 1 model in chapter 4 did have voice audio which was a nice touch, hopefully this will be built on.
Replayability
Definitely replayable, there are a lot of choices and different paths to go down.
Additional Comments
Overall I enjoyed it, a few things that grated on me but a lot of things that more than made up for it, recommended!