The Darkside Detective on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
The Darkside Detective is a point & click, detective and pixel graphics game
developed by Spooky Doorway
and published by Akupara Games.
Released on July 27th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 4,657 reviews of which 4,402 were positive and 255 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 14.79ā¬ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.00ā¬ on Instant Gaming.
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System requirements
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- 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: 1 GB available space
- OS: Mac OS X 10.7+
- Processor: IntelĀ® Coreā¢ Duo 1.83GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Chipset 3000
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- 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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Last Updates| Steam data | 13 April 2025 14:07 |
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| Steam price | 14 April 2025 04:49 |
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