Black & White
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 15.3h 19.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.98/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 748 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
"Black & White" is a dystopian visual novel + war chess game: black and white, sensibility and reason, freedom and order: follow your beliefs and join your camp.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
29 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pathway ($15.99, scores 43) beats it on value, while it beats 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15).
More about Black & White
This site sampled 476 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
66% start to 10% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I've made an unofficial English translation, so I figure I might as well say a few things about the game. I'll be releasing the complete TL in a day or two (search "1/2 White or Black English Patch" on itchio), and I wouldn't have completed it if I didn't think the game was good. So, what are you in for? This game is mostly set in a dystopia in the late 27th century. A religious organization, the White Lords'...
2 more reviews
Great aesthetic and storyline, heavily reminiscent of Drakengard 3/DoD3 (why did drakengard 3 resonate so much more strongly with China...? lol). The SRPG parts feel a lot more like what I expect from "War Chess", your units don't have MP, don't level or have complex stats, and have 3 skills they can choose from each turn. Most HP counts are around 4-6 and a strong skill will do 2 damage, so it feels a lot more like...
No idea what I am doing, just clicked while I didn't know what to hope for. Also messed up the battles, lots of people died. 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Black & White scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1998450/black-whiteReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.