Black Mirror
Blood is not always thicker than water. Scotland, 1926. Following the suicide of his father, David Gordon visits his ancestral home for the first time in his life. A life that is soon threatened by the dark…
Black Mirror is an adventure developed by KING Art, released 28 November 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What Black Mirror is
Black Mirror is an adventure game developed by KING Art and released in 2017. It was published by THQ Nordic. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"David Gordon never knew his estranged father particularly well. Still it comes as a shock when he is summoned to his family’s ancestral home in the Scottish highlands, after his father has taken his own life there. David does not know much about his father’s final weeks, but the circumstances of his death seem more than peculiar. Settling the heritage is merely an excuse for David to find out more about the castle his father grew up in, meeting the family he never knew and for shedding light on the mysteries surrounding his father’s death. Tormented by nightmares and waking dreams for all his life, he fears that it might be his destiny to follow in his father’s footsteps, down a path that…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Black Mirror holds a critic score of 25 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 46 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs.
What it launched against
Black Mirror launched on 28 November 2017, within three weeks of Star Wars Battlefront II, Hello Neighbor, Yakuza Kiwami 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Star Wars Battlefront II, Hello Neighbor, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition.
Official trailer
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