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Spooky Doorway · 2017 · 94 % positive of 4,724

24 games that play like The Darkside Detective and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, Thimbleweed Park™ and Detective Grimoire.

Player tags

  • Point & Click
  • Detective
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Adventure
  • Story Rich
  • Mystery
  • Comedy
  • Funny

At a glance

What games like The Darkside Detective have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Darkside Detective: Point & Click (22 of 24), Detective (19) and Story Rich (16).
  • They came out between 2010 and 2025, 14 of them after The Darkside Detective (2017).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Cube Escape Collection (98 % positive of 6,796).
  • The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark both plays and looks like The Darkside Detective.

By gameplay

Plays like The Darkside Detective

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt71 % positive of 317Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Mystery
  2. Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard95 % positive of 1,980Shared: Point & Click · Detective · Mystery
  3. Alter Ego70 % positive of 273Shared: Point & Click · Detective · Mystery
  4. Creepy Tale: Some Other Place94 % positive of 494Shared: Point & Click · Mystery · Puzzle
  5. The Wild Case86 % positive of 229Shared: Point & Click · Detective · Story Rich
  6. Follow the meaning93 % positive of 780Shared: Point & Click · Detective · Story Rich
  7. Darkestville Castle93 % positive of 633Shared: Point & Click · Story Rich · Comedy
  8. Lord Winklebottom Investigates93 % positive of 191Shared: Point & Click · Detective · Story Rich
  9. 9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek90 % positive of 1,480Shared: Point & Click · Detective · Story Rich
  10. Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 186 % positive of 629Shared: Detective · Pixel Graphics · Story Rich
  11. Cube Escape Collection98 % positive of 6,796Shared: Point & Click · Detective · Story Rich
  12. Enigma of Fear96 % positive of 9,093Shared: Detective · Pixel Graphics · Story Rich

By look

Looks like The Darkside Detective

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Don Duality65 % positive of 366
  2. The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition94 % positive of 916
  3. The Last Door - Collector's Edition94 % positive of 2,333
  4. Dreams in the Witch House93 % positive of 343
  5. Days Under Custody39 % positive of 156
  6. Gods Will Be Watching70 % positive of 2,881
  7. Terror At Oakheart88 % positive of 284
  8. 坏小孩95 % positive of 1,617
  9. Tick Tock Isle86 % positive of 324
  10. STAY69 % positive of 536
  11. Murder50 % positive of 412
  12. Lakeview Cabin Collection92 % positive of 1,870

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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