Black Mirror
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Adventure, horror, puzzle elements, interwar period, singleplayer
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Steam
A reboot of the popular gothic horror adventure game series, developed by KING Art Games. The action takes the player to Scotland of the year 1926, where the hero – David Gordon – conducts an investigation into the circumstances of his father’s suicide.
Last Update: November 27, 2017
Black Mirror Guide
Our guide and walkthrough for Black Mirror contains numerous tips and hints that will help you solve all riddles, secrets and mysteries in gloomy and dark Gordon's house. Discover the terrible truth.
Videos and Screens
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TrueAchievements: 3 / 5 by Megan Walton
Black Mirror will leave you feeling a bit torn. It's a good story told in a good location, accompanied by an ideal soundtrack. The fact that it is carrying on with the same family from the original games is the icing on the cake. Sadly, it is let down by too many problems, including annoying movement and camera tracking, poor facial character designs and other issues that mount up to make the game more of a struggle than it should be.
Slant Magazine: 1.5 / 5 by Steven Scaife
Black Mirror often alludes to the Gothic classics that inspired it, to stories full of disturbing, evil forces that threaten to overtake their characters, but the only unsettling thing about it is a glut of technical issues.
PlayStation LifeStyle: 5.5 / 10 by Ahmed Mohamed
That is simply the best way to describe the game—it just doesn't work. Besides a clever story that reveals itself every so often and an eerie atmosphere that is perfect for this type of game, Black Mirror is a missed opportunity to truly modernize the 2003 original. I feel like the game hasn't learned anything from the likes of Tales From The Borderlands or Life Is Strange in the same way that Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier has. It feels like a game that is purposefully ignoring its competition in an era where Andy Serkis and other filmmakers have made it a point to get into the story-focused, adventure game genre. Black Mirror, unlike the Netflix show with the same name, refuses to trek into the future, instead resulting in a game that feels stuck in the past.
GAMERS Score
Average score from 52 votes. 13 players anticipated the game.
Black Mirror Description
Black Mirror is a gothic horror adventure developed by KING Art Games, the authors of such titles as The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Dwarves, and Iron Harvest. The game published on PC, PS4 and XONE is a reboot of the series started in 2003 by The Black Mirror.
Plot
The action of Black Mirror takes us to Scotland, 1926. The main hero is David Gordon who arrived at his family mansion right after his father, an occultism enthusiast, committed suicide. Given the fact that the last few weeks of John Gordon’s life, along with his suicide circumstances, remain a mystery, the protagonist decides to carry out an investigation in order to find the truth. During the adventure, David not only learns about his father, with whom he did not form a true bond, and about family members that were allegedly cursed. The hero needs to face his own nightmares, as he believes that just as his father and other predecessors, he is also cursed, which will drive him to madness.
What is interesting, even though there is a number of references to the previous games in the series (the hero’s name and the theme are most distinguishable ones), you can still derive pleasure from the title without knowing them. Furthermore, the scriptwriters were inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Howard Philips Lovecraft.
Mechanics
Gameplay of Black Mirror released on PC, PS4 and XONE is based on the genre’s basic rules. During gameplay, the player explores different, depressing locations, chat with neutral NPCs, push the story forward by solving more or less complex puzzles, which are mostly based on the correct use of items and looking for another ones, just like in classic point’n’click adventures. Visions and nightmare hallucinations are crucial – the hero can interact with them and hence learn about the past events of his family house.
Technical aspects
The 3D, amazing visuals of Black Mirror have bleak colours, which only make the game even gloomier. The title has a full voiceover and an atmospheric, original soundtrack.
Last updated on September 4, 2017
Black Mirror Summary
Game Series: Black Mirror
Platforms:
PC / Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Developer: KING Art Games
Publisher: THQ Nordic / Nordic Games
Black Mirror System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 940 3 GHz, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon HD 7870 or better, 11 GB HDD, Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
Recommended: Intel Core i7-3770 3.9 GHz / AMD FX-8350 4 GHz, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 4 GB GeForce GTX 960 / Radeon R9 290 or better, 11 GB HDD, Windows 7/8/10 64-bit