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The Blackwell Legacy

89% positive of 1,343 Steam reviews

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Released
2012
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam, GOG

Made by Wadjet Eye Games.

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.

Tagged by players

  • Point & Click
  • Supernatural
  • Female Protagonist
  • Mystery
  • Detective
  • Adventure
  • Noir
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Story Rich
  • Retro
  • Atmospheric
  • Short

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What players say

  • Recommended
    The game still holds up after 20 years. Although it was Wadjet Eye Games’ first commercial game (and therefore had some game-design mistakes), it clearly laid the groundwork for its supernatural and mysterious world and kickstarted a brand-new IP for the company. Notebook Mechanic The game’s notebook mechanic is fun to use. Collecting clues as inventory items was something of a novel idea at the time (apparently…

    10 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    This game may be few years old by now. but it is still worth playing, I'd say. It has a strangely compelling story that is equal parts interesting and bland. The notebook game mechanic was an thing I hadn't seen in an adventure game before. It made me feel smart as a player when I figured things out using the notebook. If you like point and click adventure games, you MAY like this one. Just be aware that it is more…

    8.2 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    The gameplay is fine I guess, but the game lacks sign posts, and it also lacks a way to turn the absolutely asinine music off. The mixing is so bad, that sometimes the dialogue is just drowned out by music, or you have to turn the volume down to avoid the music that's mixed SUPER LOUD, but the voices are mixed super quiet in comparison.

    7 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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