Games like The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
If The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Darkside Detective, On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook and Loco Motive — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgic pixel art style, 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 →About The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark: 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.
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The Darkside Detective
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Shares fetch quests, point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Top pick for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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.
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Loco Motive
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Shares a whimsical mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Third-strongest match for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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!
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
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Ranked #4 for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Ranked #5 for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
A wild tale of conspiracy, loss, friendship, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
Subsurface Circular
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Ranked #6 for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Ranked #7 for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Ranked #8 for The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
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Twin Peaks VR
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Reviewers of The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Twin Peaks VR brings people into the world of Twin Peaks using the immersive technology of VR. Based on the iconic television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, players will be able to experience several locations from the show including the Red Room, Glastonbury Grove, Sheriff's Department, Glass Box Observation and more.
The Feeble Files
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Reviewers of The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
An epic space adventure which sees our hero Feeble undertaking acts of betrayal, intrigue, revolution, and even a bit of cross dressing, in an attempt to right his previous wrongs and save the universe from a fate worse than life.
Return to Monkey Island
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Shares a whimsical mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Reviewers of The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
Thimbleweed Park™
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Reviewers of The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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.
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Reviewers of The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it? Sample Ron Gilbert’s new adventure game engine in this free prototype that uses “found art” from the award-winning Thimbleweed Park.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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: A Fumble in the Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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
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Priced ~47% under The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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: A Fumble in the Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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
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Priced ~47% under The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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
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Priced ~67% under The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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
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Priced ~67% under The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
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Priced ~47% under The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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
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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: A Fumble in the Dark.
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: A Fumble in the Dark.
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: A Fumble in the Dark.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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: A Fumble in the Dark.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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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: A Fumble in the Dark.
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: A Fumble in the Dark.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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
WHY THIS
Shares fetch quests, point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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.
Loco Motive
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
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!
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Frequently asked about The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
- Is The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark 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: A Fumble in the Dark cost?
- The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark 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: A Fumble in the Dark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark are The Darkside Detective, On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook, Loco Motive.
- Who developed The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark?
- The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark was developed by Spooky Doorway and published by Akupara Games.
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