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 6 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

Preceded by The Darkside Detective
Series Darkside Detective (2)
Added April 14, 2021
Published By Akupara Games
Developed By Spooky Doorway
Front Cover (Worldwide) (Linux) from mobygames.com
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Front Cover (Worldwide) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (Worldwide) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (Worldwide) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (Worldwide) (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (Worldwide) (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (Worldwide) (Macintosh) from mobygames.com
Header Image (Windows) from Steam
IGDB Cover from igdb.com
Introduction to the first case: during the months after Dooley's disappearance, McQueen has been searching for him... (Windows) from mobygames.com
Emily of the Bloodwolves (local scouts) has very a particular idea of police methods... (Windows) from mobygames.com
Entrance to the switchboard building. The psychic (I guess you can tell her by her Gypsy-like clothes) had promised McQueen that she can help him find Dooley. (Windows) from mobygames.com
Mr Wang, already known from the first game, is now selling his suspicious wares here... (Windows) from mobygames.com
The local cookie place is also a cult. Totally unsurprising in Twin Lakes, the... 23rd, if I remember well? - most haunted city in America. (Windows) from mobygames.com
After finding Soviet tech for the junkyard worker (who seems to be a communist because she calls McQueen "comrade"), you also need a manual. (Windows) from mobygames.com
This is how the switchboard minigame works. Form given shapes out of the five wires and you can call a few different places on the Darkside. (Windows) from mobygames.com
McQueen has assembled a whole pinboard of clues possibly connected to Dooley's disappearance... (Windows) from mobygames.com
Kitchen in the retirement home. (Windows) from mobygames.com
Dooley and McQueen are going to Ireland, as Dooley's old nanny told him... (Windows) from mobygames.com
In the quite tiny and poor harbour in Ireland... (Windows) from mobygames.com
This is Dooley's coming of age ceremony, and his family supposedly descends from the druids. (Windows) from mobygames.com
Dooley can't understand how could people get ice before refrigerators were invented... (Windows) from mobygames.com
The sun altar in the Dooley family castle. Dooley and McQueen now have to find the sneaky O'Dooleys who stole the sunstone. (Windows) from mobygames.com
Notice the panting of the room in the painting of the room... (Windows) from mobygames.com
Some really old technology for rebooting the Sun. ;) (Windows) from mobygames.com
There's a family of con artists living on the bottom of the well... (Windows) from mobygames.com
One of the prize-winning games in the amusement park. (Windows) from mobygames.com
McQueen and Dooley have not been very successful in fixing the mechanical elephant... (Windows) from mobygames.com
Tesla is a very off-putting person in the game, I don't think he was that bad and hung-up about his discoveries in real life... (Windows) from mobygames.com
Of course, someone from the Darkside was behind all the disappearances at the funfair! (Windows) from mobygames.com
Pox the clown is making kidnapped people undergo trials in the creepy Darkside funfair... (Windows) from mobygames.com
This man supposedly owes it to Dooley. But why exactly - I accidentally skipped the explanation because of my mouse's tendency to perform double clicks when my finger makes a single click... (Windows) from mobygames.com
We have to find the right piece of footage from the Darkside funfair to learn what really happened to Shingles the clown.. (Windows) from mobygames.com
The mechanical fish lab is connecting to the mainframe... (Windows) from mobygames.com
Hacking the mainframe is done as a very fun logic maze kind of minigame. (Windows) from mobygames.com
Don't we know this boy from somewhere?... (Windows) from mobygames.com
Generally, I didn't like this episode - too many semi-naked men and male demons, yuck... ;) (Windows) from mobygames.com
Strange tremors start happening during the high school reunion... and that's the reason! (Windows) from mobygames.com
It seems that Dooley's year on the Darkside wasn't as uneventful as he first said... (Windows) from mobygames.com
The plan is to, with help from Professor Timeloop's time machine, get the demon back as small as he was before he started working out... (Windows) from mobygames.com
And this would be all. We should now wait for release of the bonus cases - and perhaps even, in the future, "Darkside Detective 3"?... (Windows) from mobygames.com
Official Screenshot (Windows) from Steam
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Year of Release:
2021

Genre(s):
Puzzle Adventure Traditional

Graphic Style:
Retro-Style

Camera View:
Third-Person

Control Type:
Point and Click

Setting/Theme:
Fantasy Mystery

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