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The Darkest Files - Steam Mystery Fest Demo

Grab your investigator hat and and chase down those Nazi criminals! 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️🕵️
The Steam Mystery Fest demo of our historical true crime investigation game will be live on February 20th 10am PT - go and play it and let us know what you think.

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Developer Jörg Plays: The Darkest Files Demo

Follow Creative Director Jörg Friedrich how he plays through the demo of The Darkest Files.

The Darkest Files Steam Next Fest demo will be live until February 13th – check it out now!

The Darkest Files - Behind the Scenes



Hi folks,

thank you all for playing the demo and giving us feedback. It's really appreciated and helps us to improve the game.

To give something back and sweeten the time to release (it's not that long anymore, promise!) we' d like to share some concepts, art, insights, etc. with you every now and then.

Let's start with the main cast of the Insurgent case. There were originally a lot more characters planned for this case, but we ended up scrapping them. Not only because it became too much for us developers, but also for the players. When we created the cast of characters, we made sure that they were not only different in appearance, but also in body type. We wanted players to be able to tell them apart as much as possible, even if they were wearing the same uniform. During development, we made a few adjustments here and there. For example, Hermann Kiebitz is now significantly smaller and wears glasses.



Esther Katz has two collegues: Christoph Wollmuth and Simon Peters. While Christoph seems quite relaxed, Simon is rather neat and uptight. This difference in their personalities is something we wanted to show in their character designs as well.




Thank you for your attention, let us know what you think in the forum!

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The Darkest Files - Demo Patch Notes

Here is a list of our Demo Hotfixes:
  • Fixed Interaction Popups appearing randomly
  • Fixed Players getting stuck when starting Playback on the Reconstruction Board and previewing a statement.
  • Fixed Players getting stuck when spamming inputs during Esthers call with her parents
  • Fixed Issues in Pause Menu when using a Controller


Thank you for helping us create a better experience!

Padge Plays: The Darkest Files

We asked PalicoPadge to put on his investigator hat, explore the dark ages Germany 1956 and investigate a brutal murder that took place just before the end of the war.
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