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The Darkest Files
Paintbucket Games
· Mar 25, 2025
Adventure
Detective
Historical
Female Protagonist
Puzzle
+15
D
Like Score · tier D
5
qualityScore
▼
0 · 7d
Price
$19.99
Reviews
624
96% positive
Inbound MLT
13
peers liking this
Lifetime units
17K
est · medium conf
Status
Live
Overwhelmingly Positive
Live
· refreshed Jul 20
Store ↗
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Community ↗
01
Sales
$297K est
02
Like Score
5 · 21
03
Reviews
708
04
Overlap
20 peers
Lifetime gross spend
$297K
est
grossAtFullPrice $337K · promo blend
Net to developer
$191K
est
after Valve / VAT / refunds
Lifetime units
16,848
▼ 71.5%
202 / day median · launch
Launch window · 30d
$87K
29% of LTD
6K units · $14.39 ASP
Confidence
medium
±18%
Based on 624 reviews collected over 1.3 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
5
QUALITY SCORE
Tier
D
·
▼ 0
7d
D ●
C
B
A
S
Inbound
21
×
Σ log₁₀(R+1)
12
Avg pos%
31%
→ 5
Score history · 30d retention
10 (29d ago)
5 (now)
02
Biggest games linking to you
Steam puts The Darkest Files in their “More Like This” · 21 inbound · top 10 by audience
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MYSPERYENCE
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3 reviews · 66% pos · EchoWorks · 2026
Judge SIM
4 reviews · 25% pos · sunsistudios · 2026
Wonders of Waldwea
0 reviews · 0% pos · ihavenoclue
03
The Darkest Files’s “More like this”
Outbound MLT · 30 games
#1
Shift At Midnight
0%
0
#2
Security 51
0%
0
#3
Blue Prince
86%
17K
#4
Outer Wilds
95%
87K
#5
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
89%
12K
#6
The Séance of Blake Manor
95%
3.3K
#7
Desktop Explorer
94%
314
#8
Big Walk
0%
0
Review score
9
/ 9
Overwhelmingly Positive
% positive
96.3%
cohort 71%
682 pos · 26 neg
Total reviews
708
tracked
708 crawled
Velocity · all-time
1 / day
est
708 all-time
Steam-purchase rate
85.6%
flat
14.4% free / EA / key
01
Language distribution
Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive
16 languages · top 12 shown
EN
English
62.0%
439
95%
DE
German
23.6%
167
97%
FR
French
5.2%
37
100%
ZH
Simplified Chinese
3.0%
21
100%
RU
Russian
2.1%
15
93%
ES
Spanish
1.0%
7
100%
PT
Brazilian Portuguese
0.8%
6
100%
CZ
Czech
0.4%
3
100%
PL
Polish
0.4%
3
100%
IT
Italian
0.4%
3
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
28
93
%
positive
4.0% of reviews
refund window
1-10h
406
96
%
positive
57.3% of reviews
10-100h
274
97
%
positive
38.7% of reviews
03
Monthly timeline
Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch
Positive 682
Negative 26
137
103
69
34
0
25·03
25·06
25·09
25·12
26·03
26·06
26·07
04
Breakdowns
Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive
708 reviews
Free product
13
/ 708
1.8% of total
100% positive
Early access
0
/ 708
0.0% of total
— no data
Key activation
89
/ 708
12.6% of total
98% positive
Steam Deck
31
/ 708
4.4% of total
87% positive
Steam purchase
606
/ 708
85.6% of total
96% positive
Recommended
682
/ 708
96.3% of total
— votedUp
Not recommended
26
/ 708
3.7% of total
— votedDown
Reviews crawled
708
/ 708
100.0% of total
96% positive
Reviewers tracked
708
indexed
20 peers with shared reviewers
Strongest peer
Dispatch
9%
64 shared reviewers
Net-new audience
94%
est
666 reviewers no peer shares
Avg overlap
5.7%
3 clusters
across 20 top peers
01
Audience overlap · top peers
Of this game’s reviewers, % who also reviewed each peer
Sort:
% overlap
shared
sentiment
% overlap ▼
Game
Overlap
Shared
Sentiment
Dispatch
64 shared · 100% pos
9%
64
100%
The Roottrees are Dead
63 shared · 100% pos
8.9%
63
100%
The Operator
49 shared · 88% pos
6.9%
49
88%
Return of the Obra Dinn
49 shared · 96% pos
6.9%
49
96%
The Séance of Blake Manor
47 shared · 100% pos
6.6%
47
100%
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
44 shared · 95% pos
6.2%
44
95%
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
44 shared · 93% pos
6.2%
44
93%
The Case of the Golden Idol
42 shared · 95% pos
5.9%
42
95%
Baldur's Gate 3
41 shared · 100% pos
5.8%
41
100%
Chants of Sennaar
38 shared · 92% pos
5.4%
38
92%
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
36 shared · 83% pos
5.1%
36
83%
Pentiment
34 shared · 97% pos
4.8%
34
97%
Stray
32 shared · 91% pos
4.5%
32
91%
Life is Strange - Episode 1
32 shared · 88% pos
4.5%
32
88%
Outer Wilds
32 shared · 91% pos
4.5%
32
91%
Cyberpunk 2077
31 shared · 87% pos
4.4%
31
87%
TR-49
31 shared · 97% pos
4.4%
31
97%
Suzerain
31 shared · 94% pos
4.4%
31
94%
Hogwarts Legacy
31 shared · 81% pos
4.4%
31
81%
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
30 shared · 80% pos
4.2%
30
80%
Showing 20 peers with shared reviewers
