Blacksad: Under the Skin
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.2h
- Value
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD R7 260X / Nvidia GTX 750 Ti 2 GB, 30 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was March 2024. 65 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Heavy Rain ($19.99, scores 60) and Paradise Killer ($19.99, scores 72) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 441 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
92% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 10.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
22 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 21:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
One of the best detective games I've played - fantastic noir atmosphere, great characters, and it genuinely makes you feel like a detective.
What's there to say? If you even know what this game is, you already know if you want it or not. But here is my review anyway. The graphics and some animations are pretty terrible, storyline can get weird, but overall i had fun. Similar to the Sherlock Holmes, but with Furries!
Blacksad: Under The Skin is a Detective game where it takes the beloved comic book series into a visual novel Black Noir game where you walk around the town searching and investigating a case in New York. If you have played games like Walking Dead or Tales from the Borderlands, it works very similar to that and other choice based and/or detective games. However, like most games, this has its pros and cons. Some of...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Blacksad: Under the Skin scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1003890/blacksad-under-the-skinReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.