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Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright...
Save 10% when purchasing The Darkside Detective and The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark together! This discount does not stack with the other offers available in the store.
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.
Short as all the recent indie adventures, highly pixelated graphics, simple puzzles and many puns, and a known bug to add some taste of old times.
Not much depth to the heroes and little to no backstory, but I hope the guys are just warming up to drop a really hot indie paranormal-themed adventure.
This adventure game is split into about six episodes, each of which should take 30-45 minutes to finish. Most of these episodes are fairly straight-forward, with puzzles that quickly give way to intuition and knowledge of adventure game logic. The game's jokes are actually sometimes funny, the writing is quite good, and the graphics have a kind of old-school charm.
While this isn't breaking any new ground, I do look forward to a sequel.
The pixel art and the retro music are awesomes. But the writting is terrible, jokes aren't funny or mature. It's very easy.
You cannot try to immitate Monkey Island while failling on the jokes this bad.
I've actually only played this game for a few minutes, so I can't really comment on the story, but the viewing angles are absolutely horrendous. It's hard to tell from the screenshots, but the view is so zoomed in that it's extremely hard to see anything on the screen, and this forced me to quit the game very early on. I think this comes down to the size of the pixels that the developer used (they are enormous). I'm normally a huge fan of pixel art games, but this is very poorly executed. I would have much preferred to play the game WAY more zoomed out, so I had to leave a bad review for this reason alone.