The Darkside Detective News

Good news Darkside detectives, we've pushed an update to The Darkside Detective!



As you may be aware, we recently released The Darkside Detective on new platforms (e.g. Xbox, PS4, PS5 & Stadia), as well as a sequel called The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark (which is also available on Xbox, PS4, PS5, Switch and Stadia) and as part of that development process, we made a bunch of improvements for stability and performance to the framework we've built for the Darkside series. Now that the game has been out and stable on multiple platforms, we're delighted to bring all that work to the original game.

If you've had a fairly frictionless experience playing The Darkside Detective, you shouldn't notice much new, but over the few years the game has been out, some people have experienced bugs, and this new version should address those issues.

A complete changelist is:

• More stable save system, fixed many of the issues that in a small number of cases caused issues with saves becoming corrupted
  
• Added the option to save during gameplay
  
• Added gamepad control remapping
  
• Miscellaneous small gameplay fixes and visual improvements
  
• Improved performance
  
• Modernised architecture to improve maintainability
  
• Fixed gating issues in the bonus cases
  

Many thanks to the members on our Discord who helped us test and bug-fix this version before it went live. If you run into any issues at all, please visit support.spookydoorway.com and we'll try to get you back up and running.

- The Spooky Doorways

Hello again, Detectives!

It's finally here! You can play The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark right here, right now. Picking up after the events of the first game's final case, A Fumble in the Dark answers all the important questions that have been on all of our minds!

• What's McQueen been doing since Dooley's gone?
  
• What's Dooley's grandma like?
  
• How on Earth is there a castle full of Dooleys in Ireland?
  
• What clown would think it's cool to name himself after a viral rash?
  
• If Dooley was a luchador, what might that luchador be like?
  
• What were Dooley and McQueen like in high school?
  

If any of these questions haven't been on your minds, well, the game's still fun. Featuring six new cases, a brand new soundtrack (that's also for sale) and all the pointing and clicking that your index finger can tolerate.

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The Darkside Detective is now available on PS4, PS5, Stadia, and Xbox (compatible with Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X.)

With the release of The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark on April 15th (next week!) it's a great opportunity for you to head back, check out all nine cases in the first game before returning to Twin Lakes. Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the mildly 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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Where cultists crawl, where demons dwell, where the occult… occults? *ahem* That's where you’ll find Detective Francis McQueen, the lead investigator of the criminally underfunded Darkside Division. When evil darkens the doorsteps of Twin Lakes City – hell, even when it just loiters around shop fronts or hangs out in shady alleyways – he’s there, ready to investigate the cases that nobody else will.

He is The Darkside Detective.

The COMPLETE SEASON ONE collection of this multi award-winning comedic serial adventure sees Detective McQueen and his sidekick, Officer Patrick Dooley, investigating cases plaguing Twin Lakes and its colorful citizens. Point at everything in sight, click around mysterious and eerie locations, and use your wits (or borrow a friend’s) to lay these cases to rest!"

Feature List

9 paranormal bite-sized micro cases to investigate around Twin Lakes City, including a Christmas Spectacular Special
At least three jokes
Cutting edge, high definition pixels
One free curse-removal, up to and including mid-level witch hexes
Music from Ben Prunty, the audiomancer behind gems such as Into the Breach, Subnautica, and FTL

How's it going, all you spooky folks?

In case you haven't heard, Hitcents is running a big exciting Steam event called The Big Adventure Event this week! From January 21st to the 25th, a bunch of adventure games are getting together for this celebration of all things adventure-y and point-and-click-y.

So, obviously, The Darkside Detective is part of it!

We've got a bunch of fun streams popping up throughout the event, and on Friday, January 22nd at 2PM EST we've got one happening for The Darkside Detective that you won't wanna miss.

There are plenty of other amazing adventure games taking part in The Big Adventure Event, too, and plenty of them are going to be streaming just like us! So show some adventurous indies a little love, and until next time!

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