The Blackwell Legacy
Worth it · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $1.49 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.72/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 1,652
- Critics
- 80 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.9h
- To 100%
- 4.5h 1.6x the story
- Finish
- 9% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 8
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 June 2014
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
56% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
72 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Unavowed ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats The Rewinder ($14.99, scores 71).
More about The Blackwell Legacy
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 356 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
At 2.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The Blackwell Legacy is a point'n click adventure set in the normal world. The main character, Rosa, is a medium. In this first episode, you'll learn about her family's past and how she came into contact with her spirit guide, Joey Mallone. You play as both Rosa and Joey, gathering clues by questioning people and investigating objects. Clues are recorded in a notepad and often have to be combined to unlock new...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
the art style is so nostalgic, it was sooo fun to play i just wish it was longer and more in depth but it still is an amazing game i LOOVEE it sm im genuinely so happy i got thiss
I want to stress that I liked this game. I also, however would not buy this game. If you're interested in this, pick up the franchise bundle, or maybe wait for a... really deep discount - but even for five bucks you're getting maybe an hour of gameplay here, and even that's stretching the definition pretty thin even by adventure game standards. I'm clocked in at 2.5, but I just left my steam deck on for the vast...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 640x400, 32-bit colour: 700 Mhz system minimum, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
The Blackwell Legacy scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/80330/the-blackwell-legacyReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.