The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

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 detective, point & click and story rich 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 1,646 reviews of which 1,589 were positive and 57 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

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

Detective Point & Click Story Rich Pixel Graphics 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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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

Reviews

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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

The Darkside Detective series is something truly special. I fell in love with the first installment so playing this title was a no-brainer. In comparison to "The Darkside Detective", "The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark" is a bit longer, achievements took me some more time and the quality... is even better. Everything you loved is grander in the sequel. You can read many ravishing reviews praising the pixel graphics, the soundtrack but for me, the greatest thing is the writing. It's not "just" the characters that are interesting, likeable; written in a way you're getting invested into their background stories. Not only the cases which are a perfect mixture of intriguing and absurd for you to keep wanting more. For me it's the undeniable talent and wit that made this universe come to life, the attention to detail and writing dozens of clever jokes to put in this game so that every time you click on something, you laugh. I play many point and click games, many detective games too, and this is the one I would recommend to anyone, both enthusiasts of this genre and people who are new to it. Buy it, at full price, it's worth it (or wait for sale and buy both parts of the game).

June 2024

This sequel continues the humorous paranormal investigations. With its pixel art style and witty writing, the game offers engaging puzzles and quirky characters. While its humor may not suit all tastes, its balanced difficulty and replayability make it a charming addition to the point&click adventure genre. My minor nitpick is that although in the game's description it says " Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases ", when in reality there are only 8 chapters with him. The 9th chapter is dedicated to the supporting characters. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3261366957 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3141953076

March 2024

Even better than the 1st one! Can't say that about a lot of games. I love moving around in a bigger map and explore. And it's not often you get a game every line is a joke and most of them are actually funny. Yes there are relentless puns but even those are fun. The puzzles are relatively easy but some could get a bit...confusing? But I can usually solve them on my own. I think it is kind of a balance between normal logic and moon logic for the most part, which makes it interesting. Will def play the next one if there is one--please let there be!

Jan. 2024

Very funny, high quality point and click adventure game. Rather on the easy-end of the story-to-challenge ratio, but so many clever text descriptions make reading every story a joy. Solved the cases with my best friend, on an ubuntu desktop computer. Synth soundtrack was a big plus

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