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Curated recommendations based on The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

The Darkside Detective
74% match

The Darkside Detective

Indie

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.

Detective Grimoire
72% match

Detective Grimoire

2D

Detective Grimoire has been called to investigate a murder. The owner of a small tourist attraction, found deep within the heart of the marshes, seemingly killed by the very mythical creature his attraction is based around...

Tangle Tower
71% match

Tangle Tower

Indie

Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?

9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek
71% match

9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek

Indie

Save your missing friend and reveal the corruption of the town’s citizens to stop an evil plot to bring the evil Snake God back to our world.

LumineNight
71% match

LumineNight

Indie

LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure. Play as Detective Foster and his daughter to solve a series of murders spanning a decade. Interrogate suspects, infiltrate locations, solve puzzles, and gather evidence from crime scenes. Uncover the dark truth behind these killings.

The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
70% match

The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game

Indie

You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.

Twisted: A Dark Fairytale
70% match

Twisted: A Dark Fairytale

Casual

A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.

Lamplight City
70% match

Lamplight City

Indie

A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?

Follow the meaning
69% match

Follow the meaning

Indie

Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…

Beyond the Invisible: Darkness Came
68% match

Beyond the Invisible: Darkness Came

Singleplayer

Play this Hidden Object Adventure Game with strong characters, old style cartoonish graphics, a bonus chapter, and a sublime story line which will enchant you to the end. Take the role of a persistent detective, solve puzzles, play minigames and unveil the secret of the people of this magic location

The Detail's In The Devils
68% match

The Detail's In The Devils

Indie

A short narrative deduction game set in the overly litigious bowels of Hell. A simple text-based investigative game about asking the right questions of the right people. When surrounded by pathological liars always remember, the detail's in the devils. A simple text-based investigative game.

Dark City: Paris Collector's Edition
68% match

Dark City: Paris Collector's Edition

Casual

The World Expo is coming to Paris!

Dark Scavenger
67% match

Dark Scavenger

Indie

Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?

The Fabled Woods
67% match

The Fabled Woods

Indie

Welcome to The Fabled Woods, a dark and mysterious narrative short story. Despite the picturesque beauty, ugly and terrible secrets lurk among the shifting boughs, darkness that no amount of dappled sunlight can erase. Take the first step, and experience an unforgettable journey.

Detective Montgomery Fox: The Case of Diamond Necklace
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Detective Montgomery Fox: The Case of Diamond Necklace

Indie

The Case of the Diamond Necklace calls a famous city detective, Montgomery Fox, to the countryside to solve the mystery in this Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure Game!

Dry Drowning
66% match

Dry Drowning

Indie

Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

Brightstone Mysteries: The Others
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Brightstone Mysteries: The Others

Indie

A local toy-maker and all his factory workers mysteriously vanished on the same night. Uncover shocking secrets in this eerie hidden object puzzle adventure game!

Mystery Detective Adventure Collector's Edition
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Mystery Detective Adventure Collector's Edition

Casual

Mystical events haunt locals. Conduct your own investigation to uncover the truth. “Mystery Detective Adventure” is an adventure game in the genre of Hidden Objects, with plenty of mini-games and puzzles, unforgettable characters and complicated quests.

Left in the Dark: No One on Board
66% match

Left in the Dark: No One on Board

Indie

Discover what connects a lost ship’s disappearance with Devil’s Island and a local family’s unsolved murder.

Fingered
65% match

Fingered

Indie

GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a 'whodunit' hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!

Reality's Reverse Side
65% match

Reality's Reverse Side

Casual

Work is boring if you are the only employee in your department with no cases ever. But when work appears, life immediately rises upside down! Forever. Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming world of evidence-gathering, deduction and dramatic events on the reverse side of our world.

A Murmur in the Trees
65% match

A Murmur in the Trees

Indie

A Murmur in the Trees is a short adventure mystery in prohibition-era America. Explore the forest on your quest to unravel the mystery of the Moonshine Murders.

Darkness and Flame: Enemy in Reflection
65% match

Darkness and Flame: Enemy in Reflection

Casual

“Darkness and Flame. Enemy in Reflection” is an adventure game in the genre of Hidden Objects, with plenty of mini-games and puzzles, unforgettable characters and complicated quests.

The Inner Darkness
65% match

The Inner Darkness

Indie

A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.

NIGHTSLINK
64% match

NIGHTSLINK

Pixel Graphics

You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.

Unblinking
64% match

Unblinking

Casual

Trapped on death row, unravel the dark mystery of an ancient horror to escape alive. Outsmart the abyss, cheat death - if you dare.

Detective - The Test
63% match

Detective - The Test

Singleplayer

Test your detective instincts across three challenging cases. No hints, no help—just you, your intuition, and your ability to piece together the truth. Can you solve the mystery?

Smell like a puddle
63% match

Smell like a puddle

Pixel Graphics

— Each of us fell into a puddle. And everyone knows that you can find yourself after that... in a strange place from which there is no escape. Didn't it happen?.. Well, it's nothing — it's going to happen soon! You will have to explore your new home... and become a part of it. ^-^

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
63% match

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

Indie

You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!

Psicose?
63% match

Psicose?

Indie

Running away is your only option, but beware, it can also be your end. Nathanael must go through a mysterious mansion while fleeing from something that pursues him, but ends up getting involved in an occult ritual that puts him on the threshold between reality and the surreal.

Detective Dotson
62% match

Detective Dotson

Casual

A mystery adventure game about an aspiring actor turned detective. Dotson comes across a case where each clue unravels new details about his father’s sudden passing. Engage in a riveting story, explore vibrant modern India, and use your wits to uncover the truth.

Darkness and Flame: The Dark Side f2p
61% match

Darkness and Flame: The Dark Side f2p

Casual

There is no one in the world who could return from the Dark Side inviolate… “Darkness and Flame. The Dark Side” is an adventure game in the genre of Hidden Objects, with plenty of mini-games and puzzles, unforgettable characters and complicated quests.

Dream Detective
61% match

Dream Detective

Indie

It’s a game for kids from 0 to 100 years old.

The Devil is in the Details
61% match

The Devil is in the Details

Indie

You're trapped in hell, and the only way out is to beat the devil at its own game. With the help of a mysterious entity known only as 'The Arbiter,' navigate through ominous surroundings and place talismans on anomalies while trying to survive the many traps and foes lurking in the shadows.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
61% match

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Action

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the classic puzzle-solving mystery adventure directed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, is back! This long-awaited HD remaster features upgraded visuals and sound and new gallery content.

Surveillance
61% match

Surveillance

Indie

A spot the difference horror in which you have to prevent high paranormal activity In different places around the world. Identify suspicious changes in environment and take immediate action!

Darkly Darkness
61% match

Darkly Darkness

Indie

Darkly Darkness is a simple 2D action platformer where you jump and shoot, destroying carefully crafted enemies along the way using pistols, shotguns, and more. It is about a boy trying to discover what has happened to our planet recently. Is it aliens? Something else? He needs to find out.

Light in the woods
61% match

Light in the woods

Indie

A horror escape room. Trapped by a demonic entity in an old house, solve puzzles in each room before the candles go out.

THE DARK DWELLERS
61% match

THE DARK DWELLERS

Action

In this dank pit of rot and undeath, take control of The Mortali, the newest member of ragtag-group THE DARK DWELLERS. Fight and crawl your way through this subterranean land, collect unique weapons, learn devastating Blood Magic spells and attempt to end The Maddening Curse.

The Mirror's Curse
61% match

The Mirror's Curse

Indie

The Mirror's Curse is a first-person escape-room puzzle game with a mysterious, action-packed twist. Trapped in limbo — a distorted version of your own home — you must solve intricate mirror puzzles, navigate maze-like rooms, and outsmart vengeful spirits to break free

Eyes of Darkness
60% match

Eyes of Darkness

Pixel Graphics

Psychological horror, featuring early 90's graphics and music, vast player's freedom and multiple endings! Leonard White, a professional inspector, is looking for his ex-girlfriend, Kimberly Frances, gone missing in Goodsprings, a small town near Nevada holding the darkest secrets...

After the Flood
60% match

After the Flood

Singleplayer

Embark on a chilling journey into the heart of a desolate town trapped in the clutches of an ancient curse. 'After the Flood' is a single-player horror game that combines atmospheric exploration, immersive storytelling, and heart-pounding survival elements.

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place
60% match

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place

Indie

Creepy Tale is a mysterious adventure rich in riddles and eerie atmosphere. An autumn morning promised a quiet fishing trip, but events took Martin to 'some other place.' Find the way home, uncover loads of secrets, and save everyone that you can.

Candlehead
60% match

Candlehead

Action

Explore a dark and eerie first person horror game where your doom flickers in the form of a candle barely visible through the dusky gloom.

Dreamless
60% match

Dreamless

Indie

In a remote provincial town, teenagers mysteriously disappear every 25 years. You're a high school student about to turn 18... But what if you become the next victim?

Voices in the Dark
58% match

Voices in the Dark

Indie

The story of a young anthropologist who sets out on an expedition to investigate the disappearance of a group of scientists at an ancient excavation site. Creepy atmosphere and a constant sense of persecution will not let him go the rest of the way.

Dead-End Detective: The Sixpence Strangler
58% match

Dead-End Detective: The Sixpence Strangler

Casual

Become a detective in this comedic/thrilling visual novel set in the 1950s as you try to track down a serial strangler that stalks the streets of London.

Awe
58% match

Awe

Indie

Awe is a god-game about expressing one’s creativity by shaping and building planets’ ecosystems in a soothing and relaxing ambiance carried by beautiful, minimalist lowpoly 3D art style and atmospheric music.

Lurking in Tenebris
58% match

Lurking in Tenebris

Indie

Lurking in Tenebris is a psychological horror game where you participate in a mysterious drug experiment, forced to escape mazes that intensify with every pill you take.

A Place, Forbidden
58% match

A Place, Forbidden

Indie

A Place, Forbidden is a first-person, lo-fi horror-puzzle game set in the Library of Ouroboros, a seemingly innocuous library that, rumor has it, contains knowledge not meant for the eyes of mortal man. We hope you enjoy your visit.