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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, Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
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 6.29€ on Steam with a 55% discount, but you can find it for 2.13€ on K4G.
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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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They've done it again. This one of my favorite point and click adventure games. They somehow improved on the first, which mind you was so gripping it had me concerned about a joke cartoon/pixelated police officer disappearing. More puzzles, just as many puns and perfect humor. I really do like the case approach- one of my biggest issues with point and click adventure games at this point in my life is the time investment but with the darkside detective games I can check out for a little while and crack a smile of the ridiculousness of it all. Absolute gold.
Like its predecessor, a love letter to all the classic '90s point'n'click adventures. This sequel is an improvement on the original (longer episodes with better puzzles), but don't play it until you've completed the original, as it brings back characters and makes a lot of references to the previous game's hi-jinks.
This is very similar to the first game (and picks up chronologically where the first one left off): Mini point-and-click adventure episodes where you control Detective Francis Mcqueen and his friends as they solve spooky happenings in the town of Twin Lakes. You don't carry any inventory between episodes and there are no game overs or soft locks. I liked this one less than the first. The adventures are much bigger in general in this game and so I frequently found myself having to run all over looking for things. Episode 7 does a perfect job by having a lot of different areas and some quirky puzzles but it locks you out of places once you don't need anything else from them whereas on the other maps you may find yourself doing a lot of legwork to areas that you aren't aware are no longer relevant. I forgot to mention this in my review of the first game, but almost every time I got stuck in either game it was due to a pixel hunt. The devs have done a great job of making all the rooms look busy but that's better for ambience than it is when there's one usable item on a cluttered shelf. You can hold shift to highlight clickable spots (game doesn't mention this afaict) but without labels it's better than nothing but not amazing. There's an attempt at a more connected story this time with some missions leading directly into each other but there's still not really a plot or character development to speak of. The Darkside itself operates as a combination afterlife/hell/mirror universe and fails to have a coherent flavor as a result: in one mission it'll be Twin Lakes but nicer and populated by ghosts and in the next it'll be the an eerie void or the desert from Beetlejuice. Meanwhile, plenty of spooky stuff (vampires, werewolves, sirens, immortals, the moon) all seems native to Brightside so it's a bit of a distinction without a difference. A fun joke but hard to love. Also, the supporting characters don't recur nearly as much this time around. They generally only showing up once before returning for a side episode. That stinks. I would play a whole game as Emily (who I mistakenly conflated with Alice Jones in my last review). As a final down note before I recommend the game anyway, Episode 6 is rough. Huge map, two sections where you aren't given much guidance, and a final puzzle that you have to play to figure out because the objective is completely inscrutable from viewing it. The first chunk of Episode 9 is also really ungood. At one point you have a bunch of plastic ponchos that you need to turn into a plastic bag and it's not clear why that's a problem and the game doesn't give any tells you that you don't need to enter when you click on it even though you 100% definitely do suggestions at all (usually both games are quite good about telling you when you're on the right track but just missing one thing, here you just get the default error message). Meanwhile, there's a guarded door but instead of telling you it's guarded, the game tells you that you don't need to go in there. Later it's unguarded and you can enter and exit but, at the finale, it becomes guarded again and instead of saying you need to do something about the guard tells you that you don't need to go in there when it's 100% objective. It's the weakest section of the entire game but the rest of that case was much better. All that said, same conclusion as the first game: if you want fun, bite-sized point and click adventures with quirky characters and aren't too worried about deviously hard puzzles or deep lore then you'll have fun with this one.
Playing this sequel felt like visiting old friends I didn’t realize I missed this much. The Darkside Detective universe is still as chaotic, funny, and charming as ever — effortlessly blending horror references, absurd humor, and pop culture into something uniquely lovable. Few point-and-click games manage to feel this smooth and consistently entertaining. Honestly, this series deserves way more attention than it gets. Huge compliments to the devs once again. Now excuse me while I wait impatiently for chapter three.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is currently priced at 6.29€ on Steam.
Yes, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is currently available at a 55% discount. You can purchase it for 6.29€ on Steam.
Yes, 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.
Yes, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Yes, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Yes, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark does not support VR.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is a single-player game.
Yes, 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.
No, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, 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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