The Blackwell Legacy
Worth it · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.9h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in June 2014. 71 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Blackwell Epiphany ($9.99, scores 67) and Unavowed ($14.99, scores 64) both come in lower.
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 says about 9 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.9-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 356 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 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.
The drop-off
56% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 2.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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The Blackwell Legacy scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/80330/the-blackwell-legacyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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