Black Mirror I

Black Mirror I

Skip · Narrative · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 46, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Reviews
84% positive
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Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
84%
1,499 reviews, as of Sep 20
Metacritic
60
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2014
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, DirectX compatible card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Black Mirror is a dark adventure game that details the aftermath of the tragic death of William Gordon. Playing as his grandson Samuel players must unveil the truth behind the events of that fateful, stormy night.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • 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.
Holding it back
Value, est. length~$2.00/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 373 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

October 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 92 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Sanitarium ($9.99, scores 79) outscores it, and so does The Excavation of Hob's Barrow ($14.99, scores 67). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

60 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 373 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.

Players

6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 11:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Black Mirror I scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. 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/292930/black-mirror-i
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+24
Critics
60
Players
84
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,499 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperFuture Games
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreNarrative
Released2014