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Paintbucket Games · 2025 · 95 % positive of 280

24 games that play like The Darkest Files and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Interrogation: You will be deceived, Through the Darkest of Times and The Occupation.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Historical
  • Detective
  • Female Protagonist
  • Puzzle
  • Simulation
  • Atmospheric
  • Political Sim

At a glance

What games like The Darkest Files have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Darkest Files: Detective (16 of 24), Puzzle (11) and Historical (6).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, one of them after The Darkest Files (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Pentiment (95 % positive of 7,746).
  • Through the Darkest of Times, The Occupation and The Ratline both play and look like The Darkest Files.

By gameplay

Plays like The Darkest Files

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. >observer_78 % positive of 5,824Shared: Detective · First-Person · Story Rich
  2. Scene Investigators76 % positive of 802Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Immersive Sim
  3. Jessika67 % positive of 227Shared: Detective · Female Protagonist · Simulation
  4. Murder Mystery Machine54 % positive of 159Shared: Detective · Female Protagonist · Puzzle
  5. The Painscreek Killings91 % positive of 5,217Shared: Detective · Female Protagonist · Puzzle
  6. Observer: System Redux86 % positive of 2,522Shared: Detective · First-Person · Investigation
  7. Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments89 % positive of 7,191Shared: Historical · Detective · Puzzle
  8. Magdalena42 % positive of 337Shared: Historical · Adventure · Indie
  9. The Forgotten Ones60 % positive of 1,634Shared: First-Person · Adventure · 3D
  10. Pentiment95 % positive of 7,746Shared: Historical · Detective · Investigation
  11. LumineNight87 % positive of 232Shared: Detective · Puzzle · Investigation
  12. Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt71 % positive of 317Shared: Female Protagonist · Puzzle · Mystery

By look

Looks like The Darkest Files

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Californium70 % positive of 386
  2. Кукуево / Kukuevo80 % positive of 171
  3. Unheard - Voices of Crime96 % positive of 31,309
  4. The Room VR: A Dark Matter97 % positive of 3,723
  5. Deducto 291 % positive of 480
  6. Hell is Others74 % positive of 1,148
  7. Hellcoming79 % positive of 815
  8. How 2 Escape73 % positive of 642
  9. Teller's Duty72 % positive of 417
  10. The Mercury Man82 % positive of 580
  11. TR-4994 % positive of 1,277
  12. Last Light83 % positive of 186

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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