Blackguards

Wait62%

Mixed · 4k player reviews · Medium confidence

It depends on what you're after.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows

Daedalic Entertainment · RPG · Jan 22, 2014

Player review score
62%
Mixed
Price
$9.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
45
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
13
Full audio2 of 13
Subtitles13 of 13

Should I buy Blackguards?

Buy it if you like
  • Story: 155 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Combat: 124 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Characters: 30 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Gameplay: 124 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 25 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Interface: 25 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 4k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
46% of themes are praise18% are divided36% are complaints
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
155 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Blackguards is a turn-based RPG, the game has an intriguing story and pretty decent voice acting.
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
124 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
For example, you start with 10000 AP and you can spend points freely in the many attributes, weapons, talents, spells and abilities.
Characters
Players who bring up Characters mostly praise it.
30 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The playable characters are all full of personality but some performance of more important npcs come across a little flat at times.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
29 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
This game kind of feels like old-school Amiga-RPG with better graphics etc.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
29 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The story is decent enough that you should have fun, and the voice acting is really high quality.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Story155 reviews
Combat124 reviews
Characters30 reviews
Graphics29 reviews
Audio29 reviews
Divided opinion
Difficulty
64% still recommend
Linux compatibility
33% still recommend
Players complain
Gameplay
51% still recommend
Bugs
44% still recommend
Interface
68% still recommend
Crashes
20% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$9.99

The lowest we've tracked is $0.99.

8 points recordedtoday · $9.99

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