The Blair Witch Project series
Blair Witch
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Blair Witch is an adventure developed by Bloober Team, released 30 August 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $4.79 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 5.6 hrs to finish.
What Blair Witch is
Blair Witch is an adventure game developed by Bloober Team and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It’s 1996. A young boy disappears in the Black Hills Forest near Burkittsville, Maryland. As Ellis, a former police officer with a troubled past, you join the search. What starts as an ordinary investigation soon turns into an endless nightmare as you confront your fears and the Blair Witch, a mysterious force that haunts the woods...
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, survival and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Blair Witch Project series
Blair Witch is the fourth of 4 entries we hold in the The Blair Witch Project series. It arrived 19 years after Blair Witch Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 72 is 9 points above the series average of 63. The highest-rated entry is Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr at 90.
How it was received
Blair Witch holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 126 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 15 hrs, roughly 2.7 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.79, that works out to about $0.86 per hour of the main story, or $0.32 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-3220 (3.30 GHz) / AMD A8-7600 (3.1 GHz), 4 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 265. 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 16GB. 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 $4.79 at Fanatical, 84% below its usual price. Across the 5 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $6.00 — a spread of $1.21 for an identical product.
What it launched against
Blair Witch launched on 30 August 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019). It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Blair Witch yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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