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Blackwood Crossing

Blackwood Crossing is a story-driven first-person adventure game. An intriguing and emotive tale exploring the fragile relationship between orphaned siblings, Scarlett and Finn. When their paths cross with a…

78 4 April 2017

Blackwood Crossing is an adventure developed by PaperSeven, released 4 April 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Blackwood Crossing is

Blackwood Crossing is an adventure game developed by PaperSeven and released in 2017. It was published by Vision Games Publishing. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Blackwood Crossing is a story-driven first-person adventure game. An intriguing and emotive tale exploring the fragile relationship between orphaned siblings, Scarlett and Finn. When their paths cross with a mysterious figure, an ordinary train ride evolves into a magical story of life, love and loss.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 22 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Blackwood Crossing holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 7 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Core i3-550 2.5ghz, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 460 or higher with 1GB of Memory. 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 5GB.

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What it launched against

Blackwood Crossing launched on 4 April 2017, within three weeks of Mass Effect: Andromeda, What Remains of Edith Finch, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. 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: Mass Effect: Andromeda, What Remains of Edith Finch, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Blackwood Crossing — frequently asked questions

When did Blackwood Crossing come out?
Blackwood Crossing was released on 4 April 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Blackwood Crossing?
At minimum, Blackwood Crossing needs Core i3-550 2.5ghz, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 460 or higher with 1GB of Memory graphics, 5 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Blackwood Crossing?
The PC version needs about 5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("5 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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