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The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
· Mar 25, 2025
Adventure
Detective
Historical
Female Protagonist
Puzzle
+15
D
Like Score · tier D
3
qualityScore
▼
9 · 7d
Price
$19.99
Reviews
652
95% positive
Inbound MLT
10
peers liking this
Lifetime units
18K
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Overwhelmingly Positive
Live
· refreshed Aug 12
Store ↗
|
Community ↗
01
Sales
$308K est
02
Like Score
3 · 10
03
Reviews
700
Lifetime gross spend
$308K
est
grossAtFullPrice $351K · promo blend
Net to developer
$199K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
17,577
▼ 73.8%
169 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$73K
24% of LTD
5K units · $14.39 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 651 reviews collected over 1.4 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
3
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
D
·
▼ 9
7d
D ●
C
B
A
S
Inbound
10
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
3
Avg pos%
14%
→ 3
Score history · 30d retention
5 (29d ago)
3 (now)
02
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03
The Darkest Files’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
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93%
11K
#2
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88%
7.2K
#3
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0%
0
#4
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89%
13K
#5
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94%
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#6
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96%
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#7
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86%
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92%
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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
88.9%
flat
11.1% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
16 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
62.3%
436
95%
DE
German
22.9%
160
97%
FR
French
5.6%
39
100%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
3.3%
23
100%
RU
Russian
2.1%
15
93%
ES
Spanish
0.9%
6
100%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
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
400
96
%
positive
57.1% of reviews
10-100h
282
97
%
positive
40.3% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 671
Negative 29
101
76
51
25
0
25·03
25·06
25·09
25·12
26·03
26·06
26·08
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
700 reviews
Free product
10
/ 700
1.4% of total
100% positive
Early access
0
/ 700
0.0% of total
— no data
Key activation
68
/ 700
9.7% of total
97% positive
Steam Deck
31
/ 700
4.4% of total
87% positive
Steam purchase
622
/ 700
88.9% 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
