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.
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
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Fair · Narrative · 2021
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Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it, no rush.
$14.99
Better value than 89% of Narrative games
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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/795420/the-darkside-detective-a-fumble-in-the-dark<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/795420/the-darkside-detective-a-fumble-in-the-dark"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/795420" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/795420/the-darkside-detective-a-fumble-in-the-dark)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 3h ago.
Low $6.74High $14.99Now $14.99
PricePrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
Peak 9Low 9Latest 9
Daily peak concurrent players.Player counts via SteamSpy.
The lowest price on record is $6.74, set in April 2025. It has been discounted 52 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 45 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Séance of Blake Manor ($19.99, scores 57) and The Darkside Detective ($14.99, scores 57).
About 26 percent of players see it through to the end, which is high. People who start this one tend to stay.