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Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is a pixel graphics, detective and point & click game developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games.
Released on April 15th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, German and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 1,716 reviews of which 1,653 were positive and 63 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.48€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark into these genres:

Pixel Graphics Detective Point & Click Story Rich Comedy Mystery Puzzle Atmospheric Casual Text-Based 2D Dark Comedy Adventure Visual Novel Investigation Exploration Interactive Fiction Funny Dark Humor Retro

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: 3rd Gen i3/AMD FX-4100 Series
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD (Integrated), GeForce 6 Series/Radeon R7 Series
Storage: 2 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.7+
Processor: Intel® Core™ Duo 1.83GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor: Pentium 4
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Chipset 3000
Storage: 1 GB available space

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May 2025

Very much the same as the previous title (see [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/lijunkang/recommended/368390] my review here ). Still contains 9 cases, which are 50% lengthier than in the previous title. The puzzles are much more boring, though, and involve a considerable amount of moon logic. Recommended if you enjoy the previous title very much.

May 2025

🔮 Absolutely Recommended Hours Played: 110.2 hrs on record Achievements: 100% Completed The boys are back, and things have only gotten weirder. The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is everything a sequel should be: bigger, funnier, smarter, and somehow even more cursed. Where the original game was a charming supernatural sitcom with light puzzles, Fumble in the Dark is a full-blown occult odyssey, still drenched in pixel art charm and laugh-out-loud writing, but now with richer environments, longer cases, and even deeper lore. You once again step into the trench coat of Detective Francis McQueen, who’s still the only guy in Twin Lakes willing to acknowledge that ghosts, demons, and ancient sleepwalk cults are very real, and is very bad at following regulations. Together with the lovably daft Officer Dooley (the true heart of the series), you investigate 6 full-length cases (plus bonus content!) spanning everything from missing persons to haunted retirement homes and sentient puppets. The puzzles have evolved: they're more layered, more interconnected, and more rewarding. Every pixel hides a joke, and every joke hides a punchline you didn’t see coming. Somehow, the game manages to balance genuinely clever writing with deeply stupid moments, and I mean that in the best way. 🔍 Why I devoted 100+ hours: * Hilarious, whip-smart writing: easily among the best in the genre * Fully fleshed-out cases with memorable characters and setpieces * Gorgeous pixel art bursting with personality * Genuinely tricky but fair puzzles: achievement hunting is fun * Tons of hidden dialogue and Easter eggs for the lore-obsessed * A soundtrack that’s both spooky and smooth 📼 What to expect (or fear): * Some puzzles are deceptively simple… until they’re not * A few gags may feel too goofy, depending on your humor taste * If you didn’t love the first game, this won’t convert you, but if you did? You’ll be obsessed A Fumble in the Dark is what happens when a passion project levels up, without losing its weird little soul. It’s point-and-click done right: no fluff, no filler, just fantastic supernatural mysteries, laugh-out-loud moments, and enough occult nonsense to require several layers of tinfoil. I didn’t just enjoy this game, I lived in it. And I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

March 2025

Played way too much of this game. There is not 40 hours of content in this game, do not be fooled. However, I do keep playing it for some reason so that can attest to its quality. Very funny, improves on the first game visually. The soundtrack is just as good as the first game. I do think the puzzles are a little more moonlogic than I would like but it's not that bad. Otherwise great game, excited to see what that spooky doorway leads to next

Oct. 2024

I always expected The Darkside Detective to be funny, but this sequel still surprised me with its spooky antics and laugh-out-loud moments.

June 2024

If you love Mystery + Detective genre, you'll enjoy this game. If you love 'Film Noir' + 'Monkey Island' games, you'll enjoy this game. Some of the puzzles are stupidly difficult to solve but other than that, all is fine.

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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark received 1,653 positive votes out of a total of 1,716 achieving an impressive rating of 9.14.

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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark was developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is playable and fully supported on Linux.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark. Explore additional content available for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark on Steam.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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