2025 · Detective · Historical · Puzzle
How long isThe Darkest Files?
8.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 5.5 hours and 13 hours
Exceptionally loved: 96% recommend it, better reviewed than 166 of 208 detective games here.
96% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
97% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 8.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 5.5 hours and 13 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 785 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
When would you get there?
9days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 8.5 hours on Saturday, October 31.
Half of its reviewers had played between 5.5 and 13 hours: Oct 28 to Nov 4 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in The Darkest Files?
The filter
Only the Beginning
8 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Settling In and never earned it.
How this is counted
82% of the players who launched The Darkest Files hold Settling In, its first story achievement on Steam, and 34% hold The Darkest Files, its last. The steepest drop comes between Settling In (82%) and Only the Beginning (74%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Is The Darkest Files worth it?
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One hour, at list price
The Darkest Files
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 8.5 h
- detective game rate
- $2.04/h
- 8.5 h at that rate
- $17
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is The Darkest Files worth it? Yes.
Fair price
About what a typical detective game charges: $2.35 an hour
Loved
96% of its reviewers recommend itmost detective games: 91%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 8.5 hours come to $2.35 an hour. 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of The Darkest Files costs about what the typical one of 208 detective games here charges $2.04.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (detective games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Would you like The Darkest Files?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Darkest Files, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Darkest Files would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
Games like The Darkest Files
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from The Darkest Files: a kind of game it is that The Darkest Files is not, a feature its tags carry that The Darkest Files's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.