Blackwell Deception
Worth it · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.93.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 640x400, 32-bit colour: 700 Mhz system minimum, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
What drives the score
How to read this
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
June 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 71 in the 14 years tracked, about 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. Past sales have already crossed the $5.93 BANGER line 66 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, The Blackwell Legacy ($4.99, scores 75) and Blackwell Epiphany ($9.99, scores 67) both come in lower.
The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 23-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 49 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 254 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
At 4.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
56% start to 49% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
2 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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Blackwell Deception scores 76/100 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/80360/blackwell-deceptionThe 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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