Enjoy the award winning game The Darkside Detective and its follow-up sequel The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark together in one bundle.
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.
Where cultists crawl, where demons dwell, where the occult occults ahem Thats where youll find Detective Francis McQueen, the lead investigator of the criminally underfunded Darkside Division. When evil darkens the doorsteps of Twin Lakes City hell, even when it just loiters around shop fronts or hangs out in shady alleyways hes there, ready to investigate the cases that nobody else will.
He is The Darkside Detective.
The COMPLETE SEASON ONE collection of this multi award-winning comedic serial adventure sees Detective McQueen and his sidekick, Officer Patrick Dooley, investigating cases plaguing Twin Lakes and its colorful citizens. Point at everything in sight, click around mysterious and eerie locations, and use your wits (or borrow a friends) to lay these cases to rest
9 paranormal bite-sized micro cases to investigate around Twin Lakes City, including a Christmas Spectacular Special
At least three jokes
Cutting edge, high definition pixels
One free curse-removal, up to and including mid-level witch hexes
Music from Ben Prunty, the audiomancer behind gems such as Into the Breach, Subnautica, and FTL
…one of the most entertaining and rewarding points and click games Ive ever played.
9 Richard Seagrave – GameSpew
It may be a self-described micro-adventure game, but despite its simple style and presentation, The Darkside Detective has a lot of heart
8 Chloi Rad – IGN
One of the best point and click adventure games of all time
Leah Williams – Kotaku
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, its time to re-enter Twin Lakes – Americas 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.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, its time to re-enter Twin Lakes – Americas 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.
Twin Lakes is a cursed city. Less cursed than say, Demons are tearing it apart but more cursed than always loses its keys or often steps in puddles. Its roughly in the middle of the cursed scale, is what were trying to say.
Cursed enough that its a nuisance. Cursed enough that somebody has to deal with it
Thats where The Darkside Detective comes in. Whenever you hear a bump in the night, feel a tingle up your spine, or smell something fishy, Detective Francis McQueen isnt far behind.
No, he doesnt smell of fish – its a phrase, come on…
Picking up after the events of The Darkside Detective, McQueen has to save his usually-present (in body, if not mind) sidekick Officer Dooley from the Darkside, so the two can get back to what they do best – investigating the citys many strange, often paranormal, always paradoxical goings-on.
Join them in this frighteningly funny point-and-click adventure as they investigate nine more standalone cases bringing them to a carnival, the local retirement home, an amateur wrestling circuit and even as far away as Ireland as they do what they can to keep the Darkside at bay.
Like how this sounds Try the first title.
9 unique cases, the likes of which youve never seen before (not a guarantee)
Uses both pointing and clicking technology
Music from Thomas OBoyle, a totally-living composer, definitely not undead
Photo-Realistic Pixel Rendering (Depends on your definition of photo-realism)
1 mail-in rebate per customer on exorcism services for hauntings resulting from play
A brief recap of the events of The Darkside Detective for anyone who hasnt played it and doesnt want to
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is a gloriously retro nostalgia fix for those who love point and click games. But for those who have never played them before, its a brilliant introduction to the genre
5/5 The Mirror
A worthy follow-up to the first season…Weird characters, wacky shenanigans and whizzbang jokes abound, with the familiar wonderful pixel art style encompassing it all.
4.5/5 Adventure Gamers
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is so sharp-witted, its easily one of the best adventure games to come along in years.
5/5 Saving Content.
