Blacksad: Under the Skin
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Adventure, noir, point-and-click, detective, comics, Crime, singleplayer
Steam
An adventure point-and-click game by the award-winning Pendulo Studios. The hero of Blacksad: Under the Skin is an anthropomorphic black cat who is a detective by profession. The character originally debuted in the comic book Blacksad by the French publisher Dargaud.
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Videos and Screens
[0:46] Blacksad: Under the Skin gamescom 2018 trailer
Blacksad: Under the Skin Description
Blacksad: Under the Skin is a game developed by the Spanish Pendulo Studios team, which is well-known amongst point-and-click adventure fans, that was developed for the PC, XONE, etc. and tells the story of one of the adventures of the anthropomorphic black cat, the protagonist of the comic series titled Blacksad. Its creators are the Iberian artists Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, who brought their hero to life in 2000 through the Dargaud publisher located in Paris.
Story
Detective John Blacksad is assigned the task of finding the perpetrator of the death of Joe Dunn, the owner of a boxing club in New York. The victim was hanged, and at the same time as the murder took place, the greatest protégé of the club, Robert Yale, the hope of boxing, has also disappeared. Blacksad's client is Dunn's daughter, Sonia, who, since her father's death, has had to struggle with the club's financial problems. Meanwhile, the boxing match of the year is about to take place. In order to solve the riddle, the main character must immerse himself in the very heart of the corrupt and ruthless underworld that governs this sport.
Mechanics
Blacksad: Under the Skin is a point-and-click adventure game. The player's task is to collect and use objects, talk to the NPCs in the world and use deductive skills in order to overcome the logical challenges posed by the game.
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Last updated on March 26, 2019
Blacksad: Under the Skin Summary
Platforms:
PC / Windows November 14, 2019
PlayStation 5 June 27, 2024
Xbox Series X/S June 27, 2024
Switch November 28, 2019
PlayStation 4 November 5, 2019
Xbox One November 5, 2019
Developer: Pendulo Studios / SneakyBox (PS5) / SneakyBox (XSX)
Publisher: Microids/Anuman Interactive
Blacksad: Under the Skin System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Intel Core i5 3.0 GHz, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 750 Ti / Radeon R7 260X or better, 30 GB HDD, Windows 7 64-bit
Recommended: Intel Core i7 3.0 GHz, 16 GB RAM, graphic card 8 GB GeForce GTX 1080 / Radeon RX Vega 64 or better, 30 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit