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Detective McQueen investigates Twin Lakes’ paranormal oddities, combining found objects and solving puzzles across nine comic cases.
Released 15 Apr 2021
Solve Paranormal Cases
Combine Oddball Items
Explore Haunted Locations
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.
Developed by Spooky Doorway · Published by Akupara Games
Detective Francis McQueen and Officer Dooley investigate strange, often paranormal happenings in Twin Lakes. The cases continue the duo’s story in a city where the supernatural is an ongoing nuisance.
Explore each case’s locations, inspect objects, talk with characters, and collect items. Use items on people and parts of the environment, or combine them, to solve problems and move the investigation forward.
The adventure is divided into nine cases, with additional bonus stories. Cases are mostly self-contained, while recurring characters and references connect them to the wider Twin Lakes story.
Players who enjoy the game often point to its dry jokes, puns, and McQueen–Dooley banter, along with its quirky characters and episodic cases. Some also praise the pixel-art style and the puzzles, though puzzle difficulty and logic draw mixed reactions: several reviewers found solutions unintuitive, especially in the larger cases.
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.
Twin Lakes is a cursed city. Less cursed than say, “Demons are tearing it apart” but more cursed than “always loses its keys” or “often steps in puddles”. It’s roughly in the middle of the cursed scale, is what we’re trying to say.
Cursed enough that it’s a nuisance. Cursed enough that somebody has to deal with it…
That’s where The Darkside Detective comes in. Whenever you hear a bump in the night, feel a tingle up your spine, or smell something fishy, Detective Francis McQueen isn’t far behind.
No, he doesn’t smell of fish - it’s a phrase, come on...
Picking up after the events of The Darkside Detective, McQueen has to save his usually-present (in body, if not mind) sidekick Officer Dooley from the Darkside, so the two can get back to what they do best - investigating the city’s many strange, often paranormal, always paradoxical goings-on.
Join them in this frighteningly funny point-and-click adventure as they investigate nine more standalone cases bringing them to a carnival, the local retirement home, an amateur wrestling circuit and even as far away as Ireland as they do what they can to keep the Darkside at bay.
Like how this sounds? Try the first title.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 30 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 84/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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