The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$1.63Mest

grossAtFullPrice $1.63M · promo blend

Net to developer

$1.05Mest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

108,455▼ 100.0%

0 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$00% of LTD

0 units · $0.00 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 1,565 reviews collected over 5.1 years; Chinese-heavy audience; non-Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

02 Lifetime breakdown

Launch window vs tail · units & spend

30 days launch window

Launch · units

00.0%

Tail · units

108K

108,455100.0%

Launch · gross

$00.0%

Tail · gross

$1.63M

$1.63M100.0%

Net to dev

$1.05M

$1.05M64.4%

01 Like Score

qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus

Tier B · ▼ 65 7d

DCB ●AS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

88%

→ 102

Score history · 30d retention

99 (14d ago)102 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

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qualityScore 102

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+4.3

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+3.0

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+2.9

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+2.7

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+2.4

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+2.1

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+2.0

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+2.0

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+1.9

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+1.7

+ 14 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+20.4

03 The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark’s “More like this”

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0%0

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#8The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark Demo

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Review score

9/ 9

Overwhelmingly Positive

% positive

95.5%cohort 71%

1,528 pos · 72 neg

Total reviews

1.6Ktracked

1,600 crawled

Velocity · 30d

1 / dayest

15 this month

Steam-purchase rate

80.5%flat

19.5% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive

20 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

52.1%83496%

ZHSimplified Chinese

32.3%51795%

ESSpanish

4.2%6794%

DEGerman

2.9%4698%

FRFrench

2.5%4098%

TWTraditional Chinese

1.3%2095%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

1.0%1694%

RURussian

0.7%1182%

ESLatin American Spanish

0.6%10100%

PLPolish

0.6%1090%

ITItalian

0.5%8100%

TRTurkish

0.4%786%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 37

76%positive

2.3% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 742

94%positive

46.4% of reviews

10-100h 819

98%positive

51.2% of reviews

100h+ 2

100%positive

0.1% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 1,528Negative 72

856443210

21·0822·0422·1223·0824·0424·1225·0826·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

1,600 reviews

Free product

10/ 1,600

0.6% of total100% positive

Early access

0/ 1,600

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

302/ 1,600

18.9% of total95% positive

Steam Deck

57/ 1,600

3.6% of total95% positive

Steam purchase

1,288/ 1,600

80.5% of total96% positive

Recommended

1,528/ 1,600

95.5% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

72/ 1,600

4.5% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

1,600/ 1,600

100.0% of total96% positive

1,565 reviews · 95% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.