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Dark Notes
Dark Notes is a dark suspense puzzle game . You will play as the two protagonists, traveling through time and space to explore the secrets hidden in Happiness Mall!a secret concerning both protagonists surfaces... ...Anything can be a perfect fairytale as long as you believe it.
View on Steam ↗ $7.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Coming from Paper Bride developers, this Point&Click adventure game is filled with challenging puzzles. You play with two protagonists from different timelines, traveling back and forth through time to solve the mystery of the Wellbeing Mall. A boy's crying is heard, and many…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“For the most part, I enjoyed this game. Illustrations were nice and the majority of puzzles ranged from easy to average. A few had me scratching my head for a while and a couple were really obscure and didn't make much sense to me (using the mascara and lipstick for instance).…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“After playing the PB games, which were all great, I expected a lot from Dark Notes. The game isnt bad, but it wasnt half as enjoyable as the Paper Brides. The puzzles were pretty easy, but the story wasnt very engaging and made the gameplay kind of boring. I took a while to…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2025-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
July 22, 2026 Update Notes
1. Fixed an issue where some players were unable to launch the game.
Update Notice
Fixed: Fixed the issue where the “Baseball” prompt would get stuck in the newbie guide. Fixed the issue where the Strongest Brain achievement could not be obtained
Dark Notes Officially Available on Steam
The PC version of Dark Notes, a dark suspense puzzle game, has been released on Steam on May 24, 2024, at 10:00! Purchase the game within the first week of release to enjoy a 10% discount. Let's unfol
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Puzzle · Horror · Drama · Word Game · Clicker · Casual · Mystery · Psychological Horror · Supernatural · Singleplayer · Adventure · RPG (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese * , Vietnamese * |
| Achievements | 20 |
| Official site | https://www.gamefps.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 7sp1 or Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E6550 or AMD equivalent or above Memory: 2 MB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GT440（512M）or AMD Radeon equivalent or above DirectX: Version 9.0 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 1 GB available space