Black Mirror
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 5.8h 6h to 100%
- Value
- $5.17/hr
- Reviews
- 49% of 723 positive
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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.
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How to read this
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About the game
Scotland, 1926. Following the death of his father, David Gordon visits his ancestral home for the first time in his life. A life that is soon threatened by the dark secrets that claimed the sanity of many Gordons before him. Black Mirror Castle demands an offering.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX660 / Radeon 7870 - 2GB VRAM, 11 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 67 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Gray Dawn ($19.99, scores 46) and The Room Three ($5.99, scores 87) both outscore it.
More about Black Mirror
This site sampled 329 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
71% start to 26% 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
Forget about the previous games, cause this game has little to nothing in common with them, which I can accept. What I won't accept is the jankiness of this game, sometimes horrible animations, bad controls, and missing or desynced audio. The story was short and mediocre at best. In conclusion, just skip this...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
What even is this and why does it exist? It's a weird reimagining of the 2003 point'n'click game, but it follows the original so loosely that it might as well be a different game. It's ugly, unpolished, full of bugs and it doesn't do anything better than the original. Sure, the original game had its problems as well (pixel hunting and having to execute a weird sequence of events to make time move forward), but that...
Black Mirror, developed by KING Art and published by THQ Nordic, is a reimagining of the classic gothic adventure series that trades the traditional point-and-click format for a more modern, cinematic approach to storytelling. Set in the shadowy Scottish Highlands during the 1920s, the game follows David Gordon as he returns to his ancestral home after his father's mysterious death. What begins as a somber...
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Cite this score
Black Mirror scores 0/100 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/581300/black-mirrorReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.