Games like The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon
If The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark and Space Detective 14 — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →About The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon: You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.
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Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer
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Top pick for The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
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Second-strongest match for The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
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.
Space Detective 14
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Space Detective 14 is a visual novel set in the Space Station 14 universe. Giovanni Mariotti is a hardboiled detective investigating on a serial-killer. Popular Space Station 14’s player characters make an appearance as either friend or foe of the protagonist: Nilk the Narf, Sister Niima, Smudge.
Sockpuppet Noir
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Ranked #4 for The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city. Three delicious cases await your sleuthing skills, each with unique roster of colorful socks and murderous plots.
Murder Is Game Over
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Ranked #5 for The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
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Ranked #6 for The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
Robotherapy
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Ranked #7 for The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
Bobok
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Ranked #8 for The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
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: Backside of the Moon.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
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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The Darkside Detective
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Another title from Spooky Doorway, the studio behind The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
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.
The Séance of Blake Manor
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Another title from Spooky Doorway, the studio behind The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Another title from Spooky Doorway, the studio behind The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon.
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.
Frequently asked about The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon
- What games are most similar to The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon are Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, Space Detective 14.
- Who developed The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon?
- The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon was developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games.
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