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Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright...
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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* That's where you’ll 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 – he’s 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 friend’s) to lay these cases to rest!
Feature List
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.
This point&click adventure is filled with X-files spoofs, 4th-wall-breaking jokes and makes fun of point&click tropes.
Its episodic structure is made for short sessions of 30-45min. It's not a hard one at all. Maybe some crazy LucasArts adventure logic from time to time but it's guided by some in-game hints. I got stuck a few times but the overall play time for all 6 cases + 3 bonus cases was around 8h. I'm kind of a completionist and really took my time redoing some cases to see if there was some different things to accomplish.
Overall, recommended for new people to the genre and anyone who's looking for a stress-free and funny adventure.
I really enjoyed that game because of the classical "spooky and funny tone", such as in some X-files episodes (the "monster of the week" ones for instance) or smart episodes of Scooby Doo (or more recent reference: Gravity Falls).
The riddles are extremely simple and will not be a real challenge (but still they're pleasant). If you accept this lack of real difficulty, you will be rewarded with around 10 delightful small episodes where you are involved (count 40 min max for each).
This brilliant little collection of mini mystery adventures seems to cram in elements of all my favourite TV shows, movies and books that I grew up with. I feel like they hit the nostalgia sweet spot here, old school point and click gameplay with beautiful pixel art and animation. Chuckle out loud humour that doesnt beat you over the head. The music is really pretty spectacular, and worth paying extra attention to, as it is otherwise something so easily overlooked in other games.
It is easy, and it is quite short...but the simple enjoyment I experienced while playing this game was well worth the money I spent on it.
I would really love to see more from this developer, so buy it now and support this under represented genre. So Good!!
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