The Blackout Club
Skip · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $4.17/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 670 | Radeon HD 7950, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Blackout Club is a first-person co-op horror game centered around a group of teenage friends investigating a monstrous secret beneath the skin of their small town. 1-4 players explore procedurally-generated missions against a fearsome enemy you can only see with your eyes closed.
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
October 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $11.99. 48 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, White Noise 2 ($9.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Dodgy Deliveries (free, scores 25).
Of the 513 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 288 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.2 hours; clearing it takes 41, which is 5.7 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
55% start to 2% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 10:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Noticeably abandoned game, half the map is missing and there is no ending. Devs probably brought it out of beta just so they wouldn't have to actually finish it.
This game had so much potential but was instead abandoned with the extremely lame excuse of covid. Hantavirus never stopped them from developing an Inscryption ripoff that nobody asked for though right?? XD
I really liked the original setting. Exploring the neighbourhood and the connected areas is interesting. The gameplay is pretty simple overall, but the bigger problem is the fact that there will no longer be updates and the developer interactions don't exist anymore. The progress is too slow. Getting new skills and unlocking new areas therefore takes too long, making you play the same missions again and again. I can...
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Cite this score
The Blackout Club scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/599080/the-blackout-clubReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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