Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $4.99. It has been as low as $1.49.
- Story and characters: 230 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 86 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 58 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 783 player reviews · updated 3 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The plot is simple and easy to follow.
From capturing real world locations, to creating mood with the colours and overlayed with the jazzy-blues soundtrack, this definitely feels like literary New York.
This all results in an immersed gameplay experience even though the graphics are retro (similar to most Lucasarts and other adventure titles from the early nineties).
Much like the first, it has the same type of gameplay associate with point and click adventure games.
Blackwell captures the days of SCUMM/Lucasarts perfectly... all too perfectly with it's qwerks, dead-ends, glitches and clunky interface.
It takes all the concepts introduced in the first game and explores them far more thoroughly, creating a perfect blend of gameplay, story, and puzzle difficulty.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No themes split opinion in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $4.99. The lowest we've tracked is $1.49.
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