The Darkside Detective is a silly point and click adventure game that is horror themed (but doesn't take the horror all that seriously.

It's very easy and slightly breezy, puzzles are fairly logical and are always clear what you should be doing next (if not how).

Your joined by Officer Dooley (who isn't the brightest) as you solve inventory puzzles. The controls are fairly simple, click on something to interact or drag item from inventory onto thing to use/combine.

Thankfully you never get you inventory overstuffed as generally your character will not pick up things until they're required. This does cause problems in some cases where it spans 20 screens (just one of the bonus cases) as if you're not sure what you need to progress, it means visiting each screen to see what can be picked up but hasn't yet.

The locations are pretty small in most cases (usually about 10 screens).

The game is fairly funny, each case tends to take inspiration from a horror film . There's quite a few breaks in the fourth wall and quite a few nods to other adventure games.

A great light hearted game and a good palate cleanser