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Games Like The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Apr 15, 2021·96% positive·
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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 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Best games like The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
The best games like The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark are The Darkside Detective, Thimbleweed Park™, Dark Nights with Poe and Munro, Darkestville Castle, and Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 96% positive across 1k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Casual, Indie, Adventure, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $14.99 pricing signal.
- The Darkside Detective - The Darkside Detective is strongly similar to The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark because both games are made by Spooky Doorway, and both are Casual and Indie and Adventure games, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- Thimbleweed Park™ - Thimbleweed Park™ is closely similar to The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Pixel Graphics, Point & Click, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- Dark Nights with Poe and Munro - Dark Nights with Poe and Munro is closely similar to The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Point & Click, Detective, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- Darkestville Castle - Darkestville Castle is closely similar to The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark because both are Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Point & Click, Story Rich, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
- Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping - Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping is closely similar to The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark because both are Casual and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Point & Click, and fit the same co-op story and narrative choice intent.
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• 9 unique cases, the likes of which you’ve never seen before (not a guarantee) • Uses both pointing and clicking technology • Music from Thomas O'Boyle, 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 hasn't played it and doesn't want to
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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 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”. It’s roughly in the middle of the cursed scale, is what we’re trying to say. Cursed enough that it’s a nuisance. Cursed enough that somebody has to deal with it… That’s 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 isn’t far behind. No, he doesn’t smell of fish - it’s 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 city’s 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.
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