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Team Arang · Published by Team Arang
Content notice: Contains occasional mention of illicit drugs, and innuendos to sexual themes.
Positive — 97% positive (38 reviews) · 62 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
The Pinkman Files is a mini-game rich, fast paced, turn based combat game with a side of visual novel, that will challenge your detective skills and allow you to uncover the secrets of a peculiar town.
Indie, Free To Play, Casual · 2026 · More free games
Explore a peculiar town where every clue could be your next move. In The Pinkman Files, use your detective skills to solve puzzles and engage in fast-paced mini-games against challenging foes.
About this game
The Pinkman Files is a short, experimental game, with visual novel elements that focuses on giving YOU a worthwhile (funny) experience through a series of mini-games, fast paced turn based fights, and addicting ball rolling sections while its story keeps you hooked wanting for more.
Put your detective skills to work and find out just what the hell is even happening here!
The story revolves around Pinkman, a young man that's just moved to Uruguay in search of a more relaxed life. However... shortly upon getting accustomed to the residents of this small town, it seems something much greater is being hidden from you.
Who really is telling the truth?
Well, that doesn't matter! You'll surely always be humoured all throughout!
Maybe even giggle a bit...
Fret not
For we've provided an entire level editor with workshop support for Rolamari! Our ball rolling mini-game!
You are free to experiment in it however much you want to! Create stages to your hearts content and share them with the world! And don't forget to try other players' stages with a click of a button...
Want even more?
All of The Pinkman Files' assets are available to you the moment you have it installed!
If you want to change the music, graphics, or even the code itself, you are free to!
Have fun!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4430 or AMD FX-6300
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.0 or DirectX 11 support
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Version rollback is now available
You can now download older versions of the game by going into its properties on Steam...More archived builds will come whenever a major update is released.Unsure if any have save file conflictions... but there shouldn't be...If you need to reset your save, or test stuff, you can open Debug Mode by spamming Esc while the game launches.ːsteamhappyːRead full article on Community Announcements (waskel)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 26.08.14.1 is out!
Changes:History's tab selection icon is now 4 pixels smaller!!!Fixes:Fixed History's tab selection icon jumping when using a controllerFixed weird History tab crashRead full article on Community Announcements (waskel)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 26.08.12.1 is out!
Changes:Remade Writing UIMade 16:9 1080p versions of the phone backgrounds (you can find them in the Goodies folder)Writing background now uses your phone backgroundFixes:Hopefully HOPEFULLY fixed the phone achivements being granted without getting them (if it's still broken, i will hunt down pytom)Fixed audio visualiser not being started after going back to Jesse's first pink node via dialogueFixed Writing's time not updating correctly for the second writing segment (fixed this after taking that screenshot)Read full article on Community Announcements (waskel)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 26.08.04.1 is out!
Fixes:Hopefully fixed phone achievements being given without actually achieving them?Commented out achievement grant section of the new steamapi script so it uses the default Ren'Py oneFixed Steam names with special characters crashing the gameFixed Rolamari objects with @ in the name crashing the game (they're not loaded though)Fixed game crashing when a Rolamari stage has a broken JSON fileRead full article on Community Announcements (waskel)Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix 26.08.03.3 is out!
Fixes:Fixed crash done by blacklisting function of Rolamari stages (as in doesn't show stages that aren't compatible)Read full article on Community Announcements (waskel)
