The Darkside Detective
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$5.39BANGER
- Length
- 3.7h
- Value
- $4.05/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD (Integrated), GeForce 6 Series/Radeon R7 Series, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
March 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $3.24. It has been discounted 80 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Past sales have already crossed the $5.39 BANGER line 31 times.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Thimbleweed Park™ ($19.99, scores 71) outscores it, and so does The Rewinder ($14.99, scores 71). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
77 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 470 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 273 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
At 3.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
78% start to 8% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 03:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a series of nine point-and-click adventure game minisodes (similar to the Strongbad games if you've played those): You control Detective Francis McQueen in all the episodes; he's (almost) always accompanied by his idiot, conspiracy theorist partner Officer Dooley; and some of the supporting cast recurs but you there's no overarching plot and inventory doesn't carry over. Episode eight is the shortest and...
Likes: Very good puzzles and story, especially the humor and little nods to other videogames Dislikes: x Achievements: Pretty straightforward some just by playing the story and the others.. just make sure to click everything and you will be ok :D it took me around 5 hours to get them all! Vote: 8/10 will be checking out their other games in due time!
a very fun collection of simple point and click adventures. cute writing, character design, and world building
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Darkside Detective scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/368390/the-darkside-detectiveReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Oct 1.
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