Blackbar
Blackbar is a text game set in a dystopian future of surveillance and censorship. Censorship is frustrating, but the human spirit can beat that frustration by turning it…into a game. You’ll pick up Blackbar…
Blackbar is an adventure developed by Neven Mrgan, released 22 August 2013 on Android and iOS.
What Blackbar is
Blackbar is an adventure game developed by Neven Mrgan and released in 2013. It is available on Android and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Blackbar is a text game set in a dystopian future of surveillance and censorship. Censorship is frustrating, but the human spirit can beat that frustration by turning it…into a game. You’ll pick up Blackbar instantly, but its challenges will keep you trying, searching, and thinking for days.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective.
How it was received
Blackbar holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Blackbar launched on 22 August 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends and Saints Row IV. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends, Saints Row IV.
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