Darkside Detective, the satirical, stylish, and spooky mystery game, is out now on iOS and Android
Get it, and it's hotly-anticipated sequel
- Darkside Detective is a retro, point-and-click mystery game in the style of genre classics
- A mix of Monkey Island and Tex Dallas, solve mysteries in the town of Twin Lakes
- Play as Detective McQueen alongside his erstwhile partner Dooley
Think your job's bad? It could be worse, you could be an underpaid police detective investigating chronic supernatural crime in a dingy city already full of more than enough mundane illegality. Or maybe you think that sounds pretty cool, actually, in which case today's subject might be right up your alley, as Spooky Doorway's The Darkside Detective comes to mobile on the iOS App Store and Google Play.
Set in the city of Twin Lakes, you are Detective McQueen, a member of the chronically understaffed and underfunded Darkside Division. Your job is to investigate mysterious, often supernatural, occurrences related to the city's quite-literal 'dark side', as Twin Lakes is in fact connected to a supernatural mirror world of itself.
To help you, you have your wits, brains, and your partner Officer Dooley. You'll need all three to solve a variety of cases in the city of Twin Lakes. And if you think this all smacks of shows like Twin Peaks or the X-Files, you'd be right, as Darkside Detective draws on a huge breadth of inspiration, placing it all neatly in a lavishly rendered, pixellated package.
The Darkside Detective and its sequel, A Fumble in the Dark, are both available separately on Google Play and the App Store. Courtesy of porting studio Akupara Games, these two titles come with multiple levels (or 'micro-cases') and lashings of humour to contrast the spooky atmosphere. So grab it now, and start solving those cases, detective!
And if you're looking for even more games to play now that the weekend is right around the corner, why not get started with the latest entry in our regular feature of the top five new mobile games to try this week?
Then once you're done with that you can check in on our, yes you guessed it, list of the best mobile games of 2024 (so far)!
