100
The Darkside Detective is an adventure game that will have you laughing as you solve the mysteries behind the paranormal events plaguing Twin Lakes. With great visuals, music and movie references this is a must play!
80
If you love British comedies like Blackadder and surreal mysteries like Twin Peaks, The Darkside Detective is a retro-styled supernatural adventure game you don’t want to miss.
82
A smart but simple adventure that's exactly the right kind of spooky. It's short, but superb. More please. [Nov 2017, p.81]
7
Nice point and click. The chapters are quite short and the puzzles not so complicated. It feels a bit linear, in the meaning that the puzzles only have one possible action at a time, that makes you progress to the next action and so on. The humor is good like in old school point and click games.
9
Una aventura gráfica sencilla, clásica, basada en explorar escenarios y usar objetos en el momento adecuado. Muy directa, muy accesible, y con un encanto especial que me recordó mucho a The Last Door: pixel art, misterio… aunque aquí el terror se sustituye por un humor absurdo y brillante que funciona a la perfección. La ambientación tiene un aire muy Stranger Things: casos paranormales, misterio, nostalgia y ese tono ochentero que encaja tan bien. Todo acompañado de personajes que se te quedan grabados.
8
The Darkside Detective is a point-and-click-em-up packed with humour and puzzles that are both logical and fun, which can't be said for all games in this genre... It follows Detective Francis McQueen and his sidekick, Officer Patrick Dooley, as they solve mysteries in Twin Lakes. Nothing is groundbreaking here, but it is brilliantly written with genuine laugh-out-loud moments, some wild situations and Santa! What more could you ask for?
The Darkside Detective
Released On:
Jul 27, 2017
Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
64% Positive
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36% Mixed
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Oct 7, 2020
100
The Darkside Detective is an adventure game that will have you laughing as you solve the mysteries behind the paranormal events plaguing Twin Lakes. With great visuals, music and movie references this is a must play!
Jul 27, 2017
90
All of the components – the humour, the horror, the puzzles, and the characters – of The Darkside Detective add up to create one of the most entertaining and rewarding point and click games I’ve ever played.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
69% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
20% Mixed
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11% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Jan 12, 2026
9
Una aventura gráfica sencilla, clásica, basada en explorar escenarios y usar objetos en el momento adecuado. Muy directa, muy accesible, y con un encanto especial que me recordó mucho a The Last Door: pixel art, misterio… aunque aquí el terror se sustituye por un humor absurdo y brillante que funciona a la perfección. La ambientación tiene un aire muy Stranger Things: casos paranormales, misterio, nostalgia y ese tono ochentero que encaja tan bien. Todo acompañado de personajes que se te quedan grabados.
Aug 8, 2023
9
Humorous point and click adventure. Puzzles are mostly easy, and mostly logical. Stories ("cases") are episodic, so it's great if you don't have much time and want to play in half hour sessions. Overall the game isn't very long, but not short either for a point and click adventure. Definitely one of the good ones in this genre and recommended for fans of this type of game.
Oct 15, 2017
82
A smart but simple adventure that's exactly the right kind of spooky. It's short, but superb. More please. [Nov 2017, p.81]
Aug 3, 2017
80
Do you already miss the beautiful Thimblewed Park but are you looking for a more relaxing and less challenging graphic adventure? You've found it.
Sep 12, 2017
70
Darkside Detective is a quirky, sometimes overly so, adventure game with simple but enjoyable puzzles that's over before you know it.
Aug 30, 2017
70
A smart series of puzzling occult cases, The Darkside Detective has a very distinct sense of humour that you'll either love or hate.
Jul 27, 2017
55
The artwork is splendid, the music should be on rotation on my iPhone, and, barring a few bugs, the easy-to-grasp point-and-click gameplay works. Its issues lie in the writing, the element that should be the glue that holds the package together. Its lightweight, cornball comedy opts for cheap and easy jokes I never really find funny.
Apr 7, 2025
8
The Darkside Detective is a point-and-click-em-up packed with humour and puzzles that are both logical and fun, which can't be said for all games in this genre... It follows Detective Francis McQueen and his sidekick, Officer Patrick Dooley, as they solve mysteries in Twin Lakes. Nothing is groundbreaking here, but it is brilliantly written with genuine laugh-out-loud moments, some wild situations and Santa! What more could you ask for?
Mar 23, 2026
7
Nice point and click. The chapters are quite short and the puzzles not so complicated. It feels a bit linear, in the meaning that the puzzles only have one possible action at a time, that makes you progress to the next action and so on. The humor is good like in old school point and click games.
Dec 29, 2024
7
A little humorous and fun game you can complete in a short time. Nothing groundbreaking, but nice to play.
Jan 2, 2021
6
It's funny, but after a few episodes not that much anymore. It also lacks anything aspiring to greatness, but I do recommend these bite-size pieces to all fans of the genre.
SummaryJoin The Darkside Detective, Francis McQueen, as he investigates the bizarre, the supernatural and those missing cat cases that keep getting dropped on his desk.
Platforms:
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 5
- iOS (iPhone/iPad)
Initial Release Date:Jul 27, 2017
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