PaintBucket made The Darkest Files 🕵️♀️
@paintbucket.de
"Ausnahmestudio" - DER SPIEGEL
We make games that matter.
The Darkest Files, Through the Darkest of Times,Beholder 3 and more
@darkestfiles.paintbucket.de
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/paintbucketgames
We make games that matter.
The Darkest Files, Through the Darkest of Times,Beholder 3 and more
@darkestfiles.paintbucket.de
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/paintbucketgames
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We're on a roll! Our game is nominated for the German children's and youth software award #TOMMI 🥳
We feel honored by the jury's words: "The Darkest Files is a bold and impressive game that brings history to life and promotes remembrance culture in a unique way." - Thank you so much!
We feel honored by the jury's words: "The Darkest Files is a bold and impressive game that brings history to life and promotes remembrance culture in a unique way." - Thank you so much!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We're on a roll! Our game is nominated for the German children's and youth software award #TOMMI 🥳
We feel honored by the jury's words: "The Darkest Files is a bold and impressive game that brings history to life and promotes remembrance culture in a unique way." - Thank you so much!
We feel honored by the jury's words: "The Darkest Files is a bold and impressive game that brings history to life and promotes remembrance culture in a unique way." - Thank you so much!
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We're thrilled to announce that we have been nominated for #DEP in not one, but four categories!
Best Gamedesign
Best Game Beyond Entertainment
Best Story
Best Graphics
Thank you to the jury and congratulations to the other amazing nominees - we are looking forward to the award show 🧡
Best Gamedesign
Best Game Beyond Entertainment
Best Story
Best Graphics
Thank you to the jury and congratulations to the other amazing nominees - we are looking forward to the award show 🧡
October 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We're thrilled to announce that we have been nominated for #DEP in not one, but four categories!
Best Gamedesign
Best Game Beyond Entertainment
Best Story
Best Graphics
Thank you to the jury and congratulations to the other amazing nominees - we are looking forward to the award show 🧡
Best Gamedesign
Best Game Beyond Entertainment
Best Story
Best Graphics
Thank you to the jury and congratulations to the other amazing nominees - we are looking forward to the award show 🧡
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Hey there,
The Darkest Files is an escapist, power fantasy in which you can bring fascists to court and send them to jail.
It tells a tale from the rule of law age, which your grandparents might still remember.
It is also 20% off right now on Steam — so get yourself a copy now!
The Darkest Files is an escapist, power fantasy in which you can bring fascists to court and send them to jail.
It tells a tale from the rule of law age, which your grandparents might still remember.
It is also 20% off right now on Steam — so get yourself a copy now!
The Darkest Files is OUT NOW on Steam! 🔎
After 4 years of development, our historical investigation game about Fritz Bauer's quest for justice in 1950s Germany is finally available.
Uncover the truth. Confront the past. Serve justice.
Buy and play today:
store.steampowered.com/app/2058730/...
After 4 years of development, our historical investigation game about Fritz Bauer's quest for justice in 1950s Germany is finally available.
Uncover the truth. Confront the past. Serve justice.
Buy and play today:
store.steampowered.com/app/2058730/...
September 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hey there,
The Darkest Files is an escapist, power fantasy in which you can bring fascists to court and send them to jail.
It tells a tale from the rule of law age, which your grandparents might still remember.
It is also 20% off right now on Steam — so get yourself a copy now!
The Darkest Files is an escapist, power fantasy in which you can bring fascists to court and send them to jail.
It tells a tale from the rule of law age, which your grandparents might still remember.
It is also 20% off right now on Steam — so get yourself a copy now!
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Which Berlin indie game studios are on Bsky? Help me out for a little starter package in the future please:
@paintbucket.de @megagonindustries.bsky.social @toukana.bsky.social @byterockers.games @tametick.bsky.social @bildundtonfabrik.bsky.social @happybroccoligames.bsky.social
#sharingiscaring
@paintbucket.de @megagonindustries.bsky.social @toukana.bsky.social @byterockers.games @tametick.bsky.social @bildundtonfabrik.bsky.social @happybroccoligames.bsky.social
#sharingiscaring
September 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Which Berlin indie game studios are on Bsky? Help me out for a little starter package in the future please:
@paintbucket.de @megagonindustries.bsky.social @toukana.bsky.social @byterockers.games @tametick.bsky.social @bildundtonfabrik.bsky.social @happybroccoligames.bsky.social
#sharingiscaring
@paintbucket.de @megagonindustries.bsky.social @toukana.bsky.social @byterockers.games @tametick.bsky.social @bildundtonfabrik.bsky.social @happybroccoligames.bsky.social
#sharingiscaring
Hurra! \o/
unsere Visual Novel "Max Mannheimer – Ben Jakov – Eine Holocaust-Geschichte" – wurde von der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur zur App des Monats gewählt!
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unsere Visual Novel "Max Mannheimer – Ben Jakov – Eine Holocaust-Geschichte" – wurde von der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur zur App des Monats gewählt!
apps.apple.com/de/app/max-m...
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Hurra! \o/
unsere Visual Novel "Max Mannheimer – Ben Jakov – Eine Holocaust-Geschichte" – wurde von der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur zur App des Monats gewählt!
apps.apple.com/de/app/max-m...
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
unsere Visual Novel "Max Mannheimer – Ben Jakov – Eine Holocaust-Geschichte" – wurde von der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur zur App des Monats gewählt!
apps.apple.com/de/app/max-m...
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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Our game Star Birds launches in Early Access TODAY! Take flight & explore the stars.
- Space Game x Wholesome Game
- Factory Building x Story Mission
- Toukana x kurzgesagt
👉 Get Star Birds now on Steam!
#indiegame #earlyaccess
- Space Game x Wholesome Game
- Factory Building x Story Mission
- Toukana x kurzgesagt
👉 Get Star Birds now on Steam!
#indiegame #earlyaccess
September 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Our game Star Birds launches in Early Access TODAY! Take flight & explore the stars.
- Space Game x Wholesome Game
- Factory Building x Story Mission
- Toukana x kurzgesagt
👉 Get Star Birds now on Steam!
#indiegame #earlyaccess
- Space Game x Wholesome Game
- Factory Building x Story Mission
- Toukana x kurzgesagt
👉 Get Star Birds now on Steam!
#indiegame #earlyaccess
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The Darkest Files - as seen on CNN
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Nazi investigation and prosecution video game ‘The Darkest Files’ | CNN
The historical investigation and court room game features stories based on crimes committed by Nazis during WWII. Rick Damigella reports.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Darkest Files - as seen on CNN
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Our friend just launched his wonderful historical pixel art adventure Casebook 1899: The Leipzig Murders.
If you are into historical crime solving - and something tells me us that you are 🕵️ - go and get it now! 🔥
If you are into historical crime solving - and something tells me us that you are 🕵️ - go and get it now! 🔥
📯📯📯ANNOUNCEMENT📯📯📯
Casebook 1899: The Leipzig Murders
🗓️ Launching Sep 4th 2025
🔍 Search clues and quiz suspects
🔀 Draw your own conclusions
🔪 Choices affect multiple endings
⛪️ Explore late 19thC pixel-art Leipzig
🇩🇪 Authentic German voicing
Wishlist on Steam!
👉👉 s.team/a/1841190
Casebook 1899: The Leipzig Murders
🗓️ Launching Sep 4th 2025
🔍 Search clues and quiz suspects
🔀 Draw your own conclusions
🔪 Choices affect multiple endings
⛪️ Explore late 19thC pixel-art Leipzig
🇩🇪 Authentic German voicing
Wishlist on Steam!
👉👉 s.team/a/1841190
September 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Our friend just launched his wonderful historical pixel art adventure Casebook 1899: The Leipzig Murders.
If you are into historical crime solving - and something tells me us that you are 🕵️ - go and get it now! 🔥
If you are into historical crime solving - and something tells me us that you are 🕵️ - go and get it now! 🔥
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Yesterday I finished The Darkest Files from @paintbucket.de. The ending brought me to tears, and I can tell I will be thinking about it for some time. It showed the human face of an otherwise impersonal system of injustice, and highlighted how that system needs people to sustain it.
September 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Yesterday I finished The Darkest Files from @paintbucket.de. The ending brought me to tears, and I can tell I will be thinking about it for some time. It showed the human face of an otherwise impersonal system of injustice, and highlighted how that system needs people to sustain it.
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We won! 🥳 Thank you so much for recognizing our efforts to make The Darkest Files accessible to more players. We believe everyone should get the chance to play the games they want and we are grateful for all the feedback we got along the way 🧡
#GamingOhneGrenzen
#GamingOhneGrenzen
August 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We won! 🥳 Thank you so much for recognizing our efforts to make The Darkest Files accessible to more players. We believe everyone should get the chance to play the games they want and we are grateful for all the feedback we got along the way 🧡
#GamingOhneGrenzen
#GamingOhneGrenzen
Thank you for the amazing trailer!
Was super cool seeing our trailer for @darkestfiles.paintbucket.de up during the Gamescom showcase!
Great moment and recognition for @paintbucket.de!
Great moment and recognition for @paintbucket.de!
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thank you for the amazing trailer!
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We‘re so proud to share that we were part of this special Gamescom moment: Opening Night Live!
Thank you for including us and other games that are more than entertainment and that have the potential to inspire change.
Thank you for including us and other games that are more than entertainment and that have the potential to inspire change.
August 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We‘re so proud to share that we were part of this special Gamescom moment: Opening Night Live!
Thank you for including us and other games that are more than entertainment and that have the potential to inspire change.
Thank you for including us and other games that are more than entertainment and that have the potential to inspire change.
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As we all know the game industry is going through very turbulent times, unfortunately this has also affected several members of our collective. The silver lining is that one of the largest rooms in our coworking space in Berlin will be available from September 1st.
More info in thread...
More info in thread...
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
As we all know the game industry is going through very turbulent times, unfortunately this has also affected several members of our collective. The silver lining is that one of the largest rooms in our coworking space in Berlin will be available from September 1st.
More info in thread...
More info in thread...
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If you are reading this, thank you! We want to invite you to a cozy community meetup. 🧡 Join us at our booth on Thursday at 2 pm and grab some special merch - we’re excited to meet you!
📍 Hall 10.2: Play games about past and current politics, democracy, its challenges, and its importance
📍 Hall 10.2: Play games about past and current politics, democracy, its challenges, and its importance
August 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If you are reading this, thank you! We want to invite you to a cozy community meetup. 🧡 Join us at our booth on Thursday at 2 pm and grab some special merch - we’re excited to meet you!
📍 Hall 10.2: Play games about past and current politics, democracy, its challenges, and its importance
📍 Hall 10.2: Play games about past and current politics, democracy, its challenges, and its importance
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Please sign this petition to oppose censorship from payment processors and extremists!
It's made and supported by female and gender-marginalised people working in games. Collective Shout does not speak for us. They can't silence us. We will continue to stand up for freedom of expression in games.
It's made and supported by female and gender-marginalised people working in games. Collective Shout does not speak for us. They can't silence us. We will continue to stand up for freedom of expression in games.
Diese Kampagne braucht deine Unterstützung
Save games from censorship
chng.it
July 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Please sign this petition to oppose censorship from payment processors and extremists!
It's made and supported by female and gender-marginalised people working in games. Collective Shout does not speak for us. They can't silence us. We will continue to stand up for freedom of expression in games.
It's made and supported by female and gender-marginalised people working in games. Collective Shout does not speak for us. They can't silence us. We will continue to stand up for freedom of expression in games.
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We're happy to announce that, from today, All Quiet in the Trenches will be available as part of the Games That Remember Steam bundle, alongside the amazing game The Darkest Files by @paintbucket.de
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Save 11% on Games That Remember on Steam
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July 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We're happy to announce that, from today, All Quiet in the Trenches will be available as part of the Games That Remember Steam bundle, alongside the amazing game The Darkest Files by @paintbucket.de
store.steampowered.com/bundle/55560...
store.steampowered.com/bundle/55560...
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We're part of Games Forged in Germany! 🥳 Check out all these amazing games by fellow German devs 🧡 Which game are you playing next?
➡️ store.steampowered.com/sale/Games-F...
➡️ store.steampowered.com/sale/Games-F...
July 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We're part of Games Forged in Germany! 🥳 Check out all these amazing games by fellow German devs 🧡 Which game are you playing next?
➡️ store.steampowered.com/sale/Games-F...
➡️ store.steampowered.com/sale/Games-F...
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Pro-Tipp: Das schauen und dann The Darkest Files von @paintbucket.de zocken!
#Filmempfehlung
🎞️ Aktuell wieder verfügbar in der ARTE-Mediathek:
Nach einer wahren Geschichte – Nazijäger Fritz Bauer (27 Min).
Ein Blick auf den mutigen Staatsanwalt, der Adolf Eichmann jagte und die Auschwitz-Prozesse möglich machte.
📅 Online bis 22.09.2025.
👉 buff.ly/jx7TSFS
#ARTE #Doku
🎞️ Aktuell wieder verfügbar in der ARTE-Mediathek:
Nach einer wahren Geschichte – Nazijäger Fritz Bauer (27 Min).
Ein Blick auf den mutigen Staatsanwalt, der Adolf Eichmann jagte und die Auschwitz-Prozesse möglich machte.
📅 Online bis 22.09.2025.
👉 buff.ly/jx7TSFS
#ARTE #Doku
Nach einer wahren Geschichte - Nazijäger Fritz Bauer
Die ganze Doku | ARTE
buff.ly
July 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Pro-Tipp: Das schauen und dann The Darkest Files von @paintbucket.de zocken!
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Ich habe neulich mit @domschott.bsky.social über "The Darkest Files" gesprochen, das Spiel, bei dem wir mit der Kraft der Juristerei Nazis vor Gericht bringen, und wir hatten viel Spaß dabei. Sowohl mit dem Spiel als auch mit dem Podcast.
www.gamespodcast.de/2025/07/22/t...
www.gamespodcast.de/2025/07/22/t...
The Darkest Files | The Pod
www.gamespodcast.de
July 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Ich habe neulich mit @domschott.bsky.social über "The Darkest Files" gesprochen, das Spiel, bei dem wir mit der Kraft der Juristerei Nazis vor Gericht bringen, und wir hatten viel Spaß dabei. Sowohl mit dem Spiel als auch mit dem Podcast.
www.gamespodcast.de/2025/07/22/t...
www.gamespodcast.de/2025/07/22/t...
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Finished my Geekset review of the historical, post-WWII true crime Courtroom game "The Darkest Files" discovered at #Gamescom2024! ✨
More important than ever. A huge shoutout to @paintbucket.de @darkestfiles.paintbucket.de!
#YasePlays #review #indiegame #indiegames
@geeksetpodcast.bsky.social
More important than ever. A huge shoutout to @paintbucket.de @darkestfiles.paintbucket.de!
#YasePlays #review #indiegame #indiegames
@geeksetpodcast.bsky.social
Yase Plays: The Darkest Files
Hey guys! A little something different today. With the current state of the world and recent happenings, this game ended being especially important to me and something I wanted to shine a big spotligh...
www.geeksetpodcast.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Finished my Geekset review of the historical, post-WWII true crime Courtroom game "The Darkest Files" discovered at #Gamescom2024! ✨
More important than ever. A huge shoutout to @paintbucket.de @darkestfiles.paintbucket.de!
#YasePlays #review #indiegame #indiegames
@geeksetpodcast.bsky.social
More important than ever. A huge shoutout to @paintbucket.de @darkestfiles.paintbucket.de!
#YasePlays #review #indiegame #indiegames
@geeksetpodcast.bsky.social
what the heck, apple?
Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:
July 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
what the heck, apple?
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hey there fellow investigators, it's patch time again! 🔎🕵️♀️
This is a small update that fixes a couple of bugs. Something bigger is in the making, read the end of the note for more info on what we are cooking.
See you in court! 👨⚖️
store.steampowered.com/news/app/205...
This is a small update that fixes a couple of bugs. Something bigger is in the making, read the end of the note for more info on what we are cooking.
See you in court! 👨⚖️
store.steampowered.com/news/app/205...
The Darkest Files - Version 1.0.8 - Steam News
Hey dear prosecutors, It is patch time again! This is a relatively small update that fixes a couple of minor issues and a couple of spelling errors. Something bigger is in the making, read the end of ...
store.steampowered.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
hey there fellow investigators, it's patch time again! 🔎🕵️♀️
This is a small update that fixes a couple of bugs. Something bigger is in the making, read the end of the note for more info on what we are cooking.
See you in court! 👨⚖️
store.steampowered.com/news/app/205...
This is a small update that fixes a couple of bugs. Something bigger is in the making, read the end of the note for more info on what we are cooking.
See you in court! 👨⚖️
store.steampowered.com/news/app/205...
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Happy Birthday Mr Bauer! 🎂
July 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Happy Birthday Mr Bauer! 🎂
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Today we're celebrating Through the Darkest of Times by @paintbucket.de - a deep historical strategy game about the resistance movement in Nazi germany
New to this series? Well, we're highlighting creative & wacky #games from the #gamedev #solodev & #indiegamedev community using our outlier lists
New to this series? Well, we're highlighting creative & wacky #games from the #gamedev #solodev & #indiegamedev community using our outlier lists
July 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Today we're celebrating Through the Darkest of Times by @paintbucket.de - a deep historical strategy game about the resistance movement in Nazi germany
New to this series? Well, we're highlighting creative & wacky #games from the #gamedev #solodev & #indiegamedev community using our outlier lists
New to this series? Well, we're highlighting creative & wacky #games from the #gamedev #solodev & #indiegamedev community using our outlier lists