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The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
· Mar 25, 2025
Adventure
Detective
Historical
Female Protagonist
Puzzle
+15
D
Like Score · tier D
13
qualityScore
▼
4 · 7d
Price
$19.99
Reviews
571
95% positive
Inbound MLT
18
peers liking this
Lifetime units
15K
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Overwhelmingly Positive
Live
· refreshed May 31
Store ↗
|
Community ↗
01
Sales
$291K est
02
Like Score
13 · 18
03
Reviews
647
04
Overlap
—
Lifetime gross spend
$291K
est
grossAtFullPrice $308K · promo blend
Net to developer
$187K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
15,417
▲ 125.0%
196 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$85K
29% of LTD
6K units · $14.39 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 571 reviews collected over 1.2 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
13
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
D
·
▼ 4
7d
D ●
C
B
A
S
Inbound
18
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
13
Avg pos%
29%
→ 13
Score history · 30d retention
25 (25d ago)
13 (now)
02
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03
The Darkest Files’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
I Have No Change
0%
0
#2
Blue Prince
86%
16K
#3
Outer Wilds
95%
85K
#4
The Séance of Blake Manor
95%
3.0K
#5
Escape Simulator 2
92%
3.8K
#6
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72%
3.0K
#7
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96%
31K
#8
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95%
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Review score
9
/ 9
Overwhelmingly Positive
% positive
96.0%
cohort 71%
621 pos · 26 neg
Total reviews
647
tracked
647 crawled
Velocity · all-time
1 / day
est
647 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
85.5%
flat
14.5% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
16 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
62.1%
402
95%
DE
German
23.5%
152
97%
FR
French
5.6%
36
100%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
2.6%
17
100%
RU
Russian
2.0%
13
92%
ES
Spanish
1.1%
7
100%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
0.8%
5
100%
PL
Polish
0.5%
3
100%
CZ
Czech
0.5%
3
100%
IT
Italian
0.5%
3
100%
SW
Swedish
0.2%
1
100%
DU
Dutch
0.2%
1
100%
02
Reviews by playtime
Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket
0-1h
25
92
%
positive
3.9% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
375
96
%
positive
58.0% of reviews
10-100h
247
96
%
positive
38.2% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 621
Negative 26
131
98
66
33
0
25·03
25·05
25·07
25·09
25·11
26·01
26·03
26·05
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
647 reviews
Free product
12
/ 647
1.9% of total
100% positive
Early access
0
/ 647
0.0% of total
— no data
Key activation
82
/ 647
12.7% of total
98% positive
Steam Deck
31
/ 647
4.8% of total
87% positive
Steam purchase
553
/ 647
85.5% of total
96% positive
Recommended
621
/ 647
96.0% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
26
/ 647
4.0% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
647
/ 647
100.0% of total
96% positive
571
reviews
·
95%
positive
Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.
