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The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
· Mar 25, 2025
Adventure
Detective
Historical
Female Protagonist
Puzzle
+15
D
Like Score · tier D
7
qualityScore
▲
5 · 7d
Price
$19.99
Reviews
670
95% positive
Inbound MLT
12
peers liking this
Lifetime units
18K
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Overwhelmingly Positive
Live
· refreshed Sep 22
Store ↗
|
Community ↗
01
Sales
$329K est
02
Like Score
7 · 12
03
Reviews
700
Lifetime gross spend
$329K
est
grossAtFullPrice $362K · promo blend
Net to developer
$212K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
18,090
▼ 53.0%
150 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$65K
20% of LTD
5K units · $14.39 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 670 reviews collected over 1.5 years; English-dominant audience; non-Early-Access.
01
Revenue · monthly
Gross consumer spend USD
Gross
01
Like Score
qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus
7
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
D
·
▲ 5
7d
D ●
C
B
A
S
Inbound
12
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
6
Avg pos%
34%
→ 7
Score history · 30d retention
3 (30d ago)
4 (now)
02
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The Darkest Files’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
Big Walk
95%
34K
#2
Shift At Midnight
88%
10K
#3
Police Chief Simulator
75%
426
#4
The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother
0%
0
#5
Desktop Explorer
96%
2.1K
#6
Succubus Nightmare
86%
119
#7
The Darkest Files Demo
—
—
#8
TOKYO WALLED CITY
0%
0
Review score
9
/ 9
Overwhelmingly Positive
% positive
95.9%
cohort 71%
671 pos · 29 neg
Total reviews
700
tracked
700 crawled
Velocity · all-time
1 / day
est
700 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
90.6%
flat
9.4% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
16 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
62.1%
435
95%
DE
German
22.7%
159
97%
FR
French
5.6%
39
100%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
3.3%
23
100%
RU
Russian
2.3%
16
94%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
1.0%
7
100%
ES
Spanish
0.9%
6
100%
PL
Polish
0.4%
3
100%
IT
Italian
0.4%
3
100%
CZ
Czech
0.3%
2
100%
UK
Ukrainian
0.3%
2
100%
DU
Dutch
0.1%
1
100%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
18
89
%
positive
2.6% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
391
95
%
positive
55.9% of reviews
10-100h
291
97
%
positive
41.6% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 671
Negative 29
95
71
48
24
0
25·03
25·06
25·09
25·12
26·03
26·06
26·09
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
700 reviews
Free product
8
/ 700
1.1% of total
100% positive
Early access
0
/ 700
0.0% of total
— no data
Key activation
58
/ 700
8.3% of total
97% positive
Steam Deck
32
/ 700
4.6% of total
88% positive
Steam purchase
634
/ 700
90.6% of total
96% positive
Recommended
671
/ 700
95.9% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
29
/ 700
4.1% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
700
/ 700
100.0% of total
96% positive
