Blackwell Epiphany
Fair · Narrative · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 640x400, 32-bit colour: 700 Mhz system minimum, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was October 2016. 71 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Blackwell Legacy ($4.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Unavowed ($14.99, scores 64).
Steam's global achievement data puts 69 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 309 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
76% start to 69% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Blackwell Epiphany scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 5 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/236930/blackwell-epiphanyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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