PC User Reviews

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I had really enjoyed season one of The Darkside Detective because, for the most part, the puzzles made sense and were logical. I found that the sequel, A Fumble in the Dark, lacked that to a degree. Many times I found myself combining things for no logical reason, sometimes even with the main character commenting to this fact of how little sense it made. There were also other times where I knew what the game wanted me to do but until I did something specific like go to a certain room I couldn’t proceed. Overall though the cases are still enjoyable and the humour is still as great as ever. It is this that saves it in my eyes as I really do enjoy the characters; the humour and the world of the game. Hopefully they return to more sensible puzzles in future sequels. The art style is what it is, you’ll either enjoy pixel games or you won’t. I played A Fumble in the Dark on Linux. It never crashed on me and I didn’t notice any bugs. Alt-Tab didn’t work. I could manually save at any time (save for certain cut scenes) but there was just the one save file. There is still auto save for those who prefer that. The game ran great performance wise. There were no graphics options but this is a pixel game after all. The game did seem to use Vsync even if there was no option to toggle it. Game Engine: Unity Graphics API: OpenGL Save System: Manual and Auto Game Version Played: 0.10.202.67r GPU Usage: 0-70 % CPU Usage: 2-7 % VRAM Usage: 388-598 MB RAM Usage: 1.8-2.2 GB Frame Rate: 132-144 FPS Everything I loved about the original was still here, I just didn’t enjoy many of the puzzles as much. That being said the game still was enjoyable for me and probably will be for those who liked the first Darkside Detective as well. I would try out the demo if you’re on the fence. I paid $13.09 CAD for the game and finished it in 7 hours and 42 minutes which made it more than fair value wise for me. My Score: 7/10 My System: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 21.0.3 | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB | Manjaro 21.0.3 | Mate 1.24.1 | Kernel 5.12.1-2-MANJARO | AOC G2460P 1920*1080 @ 144hz

McQueen and Dooley are back for the second installment of the Darkside Detective series, and it's every bit as funny as the first one. The pixelated graphics are endearing, but the writing (although sometimes not the spelling) is where this game shines.