Games like The Darkside Detective
If The Darkside Detective is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, Not Another Weekend and Loco Motive — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its light hearted comedy tone, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Darkside Detective is a 2017 point-and-click adventure where players join the Darkside Division to solve supernatural cases in Twin Lakes. The game features dialogue-heavy exploration, fetch-quests, and object-interaction puzzles with a chill difficulty setting designed for short play sessions. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and whimsical, with characters that are fun and likeable, complemented by a light-hearted comedy tone. It runs verified on Steam Deck at $14.99 USD and holds a 94% positive rating from nearly 2000 Steam reviews.
About The Darkside Detective: 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.
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Shares fetch quests, point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Top pick for The Darkside Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
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.
Not Another Weekend
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Darkside Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
A hilariously madcap point-and-click adventure as a determined bellboy tasked with clearing out a bustling hotel in just one wild weekend! Can he manage the chaos and evict all the guests? The clock is ticking!
Loco Motive
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Darkside Detective.
Third-strongest match for The Darkside Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
There's been a murder aboard the Reuss Express, and you're the suspects! Prove your innocence in this comedy 'point n' click' murder mystery - packed with twists, laughs, and larger-than-life characters!
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue exploration, point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Ranked #4 for The Darkside Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Thimbleweed Park™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Ranked #5 for The Darkside Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Darkside Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.
Tangle Tower
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Ranked #7 for The Darkside Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Ranked #8 for The Darkside Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the classic puzzle-solving mystery adventure directed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, is back! This long-awaited HD remaster features upgraded visuals and sound and new gallery content.
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Kathy Rain
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Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
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Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
Whispers of a Machine
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
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Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
Gemini Rue
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
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Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
Loco Motive
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Darkside Detective.
Reviewers of The Darkside Detective cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
There's been a murder aboard the Reuss Express, and you're the suspects! Prove your innocence in this comedy 'point n' click' murder mystery - packed with twists, laughs, and larger-than-life characters!
Lumino City
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Reviewers of The Darkside Detective cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
The BAFTA award winning handmade puzzle adventure game made entirely by hand. Explore the city and use your ingenuity to piece together puzzling mechanisms and bring back power to this unique world. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.
Oxenfree
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
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Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
The Case of the Golden Idol
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
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A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Slender Threads
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Reviewers of The Darkside Detective cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Darkside Detective at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under The Darkside Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under The Darkside Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Darkside Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under The Darkside Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkside Detective.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Darkside Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Darkside Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Darkside Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Darkside Detective on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkside Detective.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkside Detective.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Shares fetch quests, point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
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.
Loco Motive
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Darkside Detective.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
There's been a murder aboard the Reuss Express, and you're the suspects! Prove your innocence in this comedy 'point n' click' murder mystery - packed with twists, laughs, and larger-than-life characters!
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue exploration, point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Thimbleweed Park™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.
Tangle Tower
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the classic puzzle-solving mystery adventure directed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, is back! This long-awaited HD remaster features upgraded visuals and sound and new gallery content.
Frequently asked about The Darkside Detective
- Is The Darkside Detective verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Darkside Detective is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Darkside Detective cost?
- The Darkside Detective is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Darkside Detective?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Darkside Detective are The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, Not Another Weekend, Loco Motive.
- Who developed The Darkside Detective?
- The Darkside Detective was developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games.
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