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The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

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The Darkside Detective:
A Fumble in the Dark
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark cover
Developers
Spooky Doorway
Publishers
Akupara Games
Engines
Unity 2019[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows April 15, 2021
macOS (OS X) April 15, 2021
Linux April 15, 2021
Reception
Metacritic 84
OpenCritic 81
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Flip screen, Side view
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Pixel art
Themes Comedy, Contemporary, Supernatural
Series The Darkside Detective
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General information

Developer Discord server
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

A demo is available from Steam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Spooky Doorway\The Darkside Detective 2
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Spooky Doorway\The Darkside Detective 2\DarksideOptions
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Spooky Doorway/The Darkside Detective 2/prefs
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Spooky Doorway/The Darkside Detective 2/DarksideOptions
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Spooky Doorway\The Darkside Detective 2\*.save
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Spooky Doorway/The Darkside Detective 2/*.save

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Synchronization in Linux works only if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set or is set to the default $HOME/.config.
Xbox Cloud

Video

General settings
General settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Anamorphic 16:9. Fullscreen uses desktop resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Pillarboxed 16:9.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Switch with Alt+ Enter. The window is freely resizeable.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Borderless by default. To enable exclusive, see Unity/Exclusive fullscreen mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

XInput controller settings
XInput controller settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effects, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
OpenGL
Confirmed for Linux version. Windows version does not support it.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics 3000
DirectX 10 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU)
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics 3000
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2019.4.18f1[1]

References

  1. Verified by User:Mastan on 2021-04-15