Blackguards
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very…
Blackguards is an indie developed by Daedalic Entertainment, released 24 January 2014 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $0.79 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 47.5 hrs to finish.
What Blackguards is
Blackguards is an indie game developed by Daedalic Entertainment and released in 2014. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder. Play as a warrior, mage or hunter and customize your character's skills as you see fit. The challenging campaign delivers a story of doubt, treason and loss. You decide the course of the story at key turning points and determine its outcome.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 45 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Dark Eye series
Blackguards is the 12th of 15 entries we hold in the The Dark Eye series. The next entry was Blackguards 2 in 2015. Its critic score of 67 is 5 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Dark Eye: Memoria at 77.
How it was received
Blackguards holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 47.5 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $0.79, that works out to about $0.02 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce 8600 GT, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.79 at Fanatical, 92% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Blackguards launched on 24 January 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us: Left Behind, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, The Banner Saga and Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us: Left Behind, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, The Banner Saga, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Dlc
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