Game Review: The Darkside Detective

I used to play a spooky game every October, like Maniac Mansion or Resident Evil IV or Silent Hill II, as a theme to pick a particular title out of the massive mountain that is my backlog. That fell off in 2019, where I basically stopped playing any games at all for months until the Plague Years drove us all inside and I had nothing else to do with my time, and then Laila made it pretty difficult to stick to the schedule. But this year with wanting to play a game a month I wanted to bring it back, and a while back sashagee suggested the game Darkside Detective to me because it was an adventure game and because it had pixel graphics. I took one look at it and put it on my wishlist, and when the summer Steam sale rolled around I bought it, and then I played it.

Was it spooky? Absolutely not. But it was fun.

It's that kind of humor.

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