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Posted July 27, 2017
Citizens deny knowledge.

<span class="bold">The Darkside Detective</span>, a spooky-go-lucky adventure full of pixelated absurdity, is now available, DRM-Free on GOG.com, with a 23% launch discount.

A wave of paranormal weirdness is spreading across Twin Lakes City and nobody seems to give a damn. Except for specialized detective Francis McQueen and his sidekick, officer Dooley, who throw themselves into the night to study occult symbols, talk with ghost celebrities and make sure the local zombies stay hungry.

The 23% discount will last until August 3, 1PM UTC.

Watch the trailer.
Post edited July 27, 2017 by maladr0Id
Posted July 27, 2017
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Looks interesting, but falls into the "what indie developers think retro looked like" category.
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Post edited July 27, 2017 by djdarko
Posted July 27, 2017
no old game? ......................

anyway back to this game: The Darkside Detective

12.99 list price is a little high, i dont mind pixel point and click games, but they forgot to ad 2 pixels for the eyes and a few for the mouth (even Zak McKracken had a face)

I searched youtube cause i always want to see what a game looks like, cause playable demos are extremely rare these days, found a case 1 video: 17min 23 seconds (thats not much)
Seems the game has 6 case so that makes about 180 min or 3 hours of gameplay if you know how to solve it.
(3 hours for a game at 12.99 is maybe okay ( 9.99 fits better but an average hidden object is also at least 3 hours worh of play and is 4.99 or 6.99 at release sale.)

So i guess this game might end on the wishlist until next years sale ( 2018 summer or winter sale perhaps)

I also noticed the Daedalic game: 29.99 and no % off , its a novel/book like point and click, i watched some videos and it looks quite good... they claim a quad core will do for recommended (mine is a 2.67 GHZ quad)
So on the wishlist they will go and stay till 2018 summer sale or so, maybe at 12.99 i will buy it)


Next week maybe a good old game on thursday ? let's hope so...
Post edited July 27, 2017 by gamesfreak64
Posted July 27, 2017
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Cool, now Tues/Wed/Thurs are all shovelware indie pixelated crafting DRM online only warez day. Continuing to save me a fortune!
Posted July 27, 2017
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nightcraw1er.488: Cool, now Tues/Wed/Thurs are all shovelware indie pixelated crafting DRM online only warez day. Continuing to save me a fortune!
Yup, i noticed the same thing, but didn't know how to say it, you wrote it beautifully , couldn't have written it better myself
sad times for old good games lateley,..... ah well maybe we will see some good games someday ....

Anyway the worst thing is when trying to bring as much new games as possible , some very bad games might just slip through the quality detector unnoticed.... it does save a lot of money, thats true, i saved 100 or more euros, no buy at any sale this year and last year seems i have all the good games i want to play and can play on my pc.

Guess its time to check for mor new casual games ( >450 already(cd/dvd and > 600 digital online(drm free of course)
cause i need to play and also buy some new games now and then :D
Post edited July 27, 2017 by gamesfreak64
Posted July 27, 2017
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gamesfreak64: I searched youtube cause i always want to see what a game looks like, cause playable demos are extremely rare these days
And yet!
http://www.kongregate.com/games/spookydoorway/the-darkside-detective
A pretty promising/fun/charming point'n'click teaser from what I recall, was looking forward to this.
Post edited July 27, 2017 by MoP
Posted July 27, 2017
It seems I'm the only one who likes this blocky pixel art.
To learn more about the game you may download the

DEMO.

Why is there no DEMO here on GOG.com ???
Posted July 27, 2017
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gixgox: It seems I'm the only one who likes this blocky pixel art.
Me too. Reminds me of The Last Door, which I totally loved. Although this seems a lot less serious.
Post edited July 27, 2017 by thuey
Posted July 27, 2017
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Posted July 27, 2017
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gamesfreak64: I searched youtube cause i always want to see what a game looks like, cause playable demos are extremely rare these days
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MoP: And yet!
http://www.kongregate.com/games/spookydoorway/the-darkside-detective
A pretty promising/fun/charming point'n'click teaser from what I recall, was looking forward to this.
thank you, it's working now, it loads slow but it works.
Posted July 27, 2017
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gixgox: It seems I'm the only one who likes this blocky pixel art.
To learn more about the game you may download the

DEMO.

Why is there no DEMO here on GOG.com ???
Cool. I'll check it out. Thanks.

I actually don't mind The way it looks at all. Atari 2600 looked even less detailed if my memory is correct. It's an interesting style. Even if it has a budget feel to some, the game might still be fun. I have no idea but i will try the demo.
Posted July 27, 2017
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MoP: And yet!
http://www.kongregate.com/games/spookydoorway/the-darkside-detective
A pretty promising/fun/charming point'n'click teaser from what I recall, was looking forward to this.
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gamesfreak64: thank you, it's working now, it loads slow but it works.
Might want to also look into the link provided by gixgox, the offline/desktop version will probably perform better.
Have fun!
Post edited July 27, 2017 by MoP
Posted July 27, 2017
Just because the movie "Pixels" sucked the the sweat off a dead man's balls, doesn't me we should be so critical of the games.

I'm not saying this game is any good, it might be shit, but I love "The Last Door" games and several of the other "retro" pixelated games here, so I think the least we could do is give it a chance.

Of course, that price is a little high, so I'll wait till it drops before I "give it a chance". :P
Posted July 27, 2017
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gixgox: It seems I'm the only one who likes this blocky pixel art.
To learn more about the game you may download the

DEMO.

Why is there no DEMO here on GOG.com ???
Don't know, this is typically a steam game, steam has dozens of games like this, and usually they have more demos aswell, BUT the bad thing about steam is that 75% or more is shovelware :D
there are so many steam games that are very bad, and many devs just dont respond, 2 companies on steam reply very fast: Artifex Mundi and Alawar ( beholder game) are 2 of the best, fastest and customer friendly devs and publishers.

Anyway the good thing is that the shovelware games have devs that seem to reply extremely fast, but maybe thats to compensate for all the shovelware developed.
Posted July 27, 2017
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MY EYES,MY EYES! I can't see..............AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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