BLACKHOLE
Worth it · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.99.
- Length
- 20.4h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Graphics / 512MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!
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 $0.89. That was January 2024. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 71 in the 12 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ibb & obb ($11.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats La-Mulana ($14.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 20.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 20.4 hours. Doing everything runs 45, 2.2 times as long.
The drop-off
51% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 20.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 19:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game doesn't know if it wants to be a puzzle platformer or a precision platformer, and absolutely does not have the tight controls required to be the latter. Pros: - Some of the gravity changing puzzles are pretty fun - The story was interesting - Good voice acting - Graphics are good Cons: - The game requires incredibly precise movement to solve some 'puzzles'. There were several times where I had the correct...
To begin with - playing with a controller where the dialog in the beginning last 5 minutes, and where the controller shakes the entire time was unbearable. Was no option to go into settings and remove it until these 5 minutes were done. So we're not off to a great start.. For a game where precision is key, this has to have the worse player control I've ever experienced. Also, the graphics are repetitive and boring...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
BLACKHOLE scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/322680/blackholeReviews 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 22, price as of Oct 1.
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