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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.
The first 6 cases are fun. They are short but the difficulty is decent given the length. The writing is pretty funny (there are almost too many jokes). The bonus episodes are marvelous. The first one is probably one of the most heart-warming games I've ever played. The second one is very short but also affecting. The last one is wonderfully zany. I'm really looking forward to Season 2.
I will say I'm glad I got this on sale. It's amusing enough, but could benefit from some better writing. The creator leans HARD on using "..." for paused for comedic effect, and that wears thin pretty quickly.
A few fun callbacks and shout outs to nerd pop culture over the years that could have been played up more as solutions to to puzzles and that sort of thing. As it is, locations and items are pretty limited so solutions to puzzles are usually pretty evident. Not a lot of animation.
So, it's fine. Don't pay full price.
Allegedly it's not for everyone. It's very minimalistic, but everything that is there is brilliant (lack of voice-over is a bummer though). Humor got me many times, hardcore pixelated and scanlined artwork is gorgeous, music is perfect. Time well spent.
This game has great pixel art, music, and sound effects, really funny dialogue, and fun cases to solve - but alas the puzzles are a wee bit too easy. Otherwise this would have been 5/5 for me. Still highly recommended and a must buy for the sequel.