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Black Mirror is a dark adventure game that details the aftermath of the tragic death of William Gordon. Playing as his grandson Samuel players must unveil the truth behind the events of that fateful, stormy night.
Black Mirror I is a point & click, adventure and mystery game
developed by Future Games and Unknown Identity
and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on June 17th 2014 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Czech and Polish.
It has received 1,350 reviews of which 1,128 were positive and 222 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.05€ on Eneba.
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- OS *: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7/8 32 or 64 bit
- Processor: Pentium(r) III 400 MHz (Or Equivalent)
- Memory: 64 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX compatible card
- DirectX: Version 8.0
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible card
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We replayed Black Mirror, a horror adventure game published by The Adventure Company in October 2003. I first played it in December of 2005, though it took me four months to get through it (25 hours of playtime). I remembered almost nothing of the game, other than it rained a lot, so this was like playing it for the first time. Deb and I played it together. Even so, we needed to look up some things. More on that later. Overall Black Mirror remains a pretty decent game. It spawned two sequels (both played) and a new and updated version of this first game, still awaiting me in my Steam library. Samuel Gordon returns to his ancestral home (Black Mirror Castle) upon the suicide death of William Gordon, his grandfather. He soon becomes embroiled in a family curse, and works to solve a great mystery surrounding William's death. The story is okay, at least until it is revealed who the killer is. That revelation defies all logic. The game plays out in six chapters. Locations are gradually added as the game progresses, but it begins inside the castle and on the grounds. There are several people to speak with, and many rooms to explore. The first two chapters include the nearby village and a church. Chapter 3 takes players to another ancestral home in Wales. Chapter 4 adds underground locations including beneath the church and Black Mirror Castle itself, as well as an old mine. Next come many chilling visits to the morgue, an ancient stone ring and a lighthouse. Many locations are seen in late autumn daylight and during night and dark thunderstorms. I was correct; it does rain a lot in this game. And yet Samuel never wears a hat or carries an umbrella--perhaps he is crazy. Presentation is via an enhanced slideshow format, where Samuel walks across the view. Sometimes the on-screen scenario can be extended by walking further or to one side. I have no quibbles with the graphics. Again played in 640 x 480, Steam has done a good job of keeping this old game looking good. Not having to constantly switch CDs is a good thing, too. Anyway, the body count continues to mount during the game. In addition to William and the wolf, the castle gardener is murdered, a young boy (boo, hiss), Samuel's uncle and his cousin (?) James. Besides a few too many murders, what else is there to dislike about the game? Well, there are very few actual puzzles. Assemble a torn photo, unscramble some riddles, solve a 4 x 4 sliding puzzle, figure out how to open a jewel box with a puzzle along with a few other examples, this game is mostly about pixel hunting. Hot spots appear red when the cursor is placed on them. Very often spots that have been checked 101 times and not shown up will turn red later, after a certain conversation or action has taken place. Inventory can become crowded at times. Worst of all, some hot spots must be left clicked and right clicked, or else. Yes, players can "die" in this game. After Samuel gets killed a few times by a wolf, and his head sliced off, it is a good thing to save often. This brings me to my main complaint. If you don't save often you get a much more immersive experience in the game. But if you don't save often and you die (not if but when) then a lot of replaying must take place. If you do save often, you totally lose the immersive experience of being in the game. Developers never really get this. It seems a necessity to kill the player many times, to prove how stupid players are and how clever the developers are. Things I liked were the fact that Samuel would not leave a place if there was still more to do there. That was very handy. And many of the map locations could not be visited if they were no longer needed. Very helpful. Sadly, however, the game lacked flow. As soon as one puzzle was solved, one thought that the way ahead would be clear for a time. Usually another obstacle was encountered almost immediately. And now we come to the game's conclusion. Once we know who the killer is, we also realize that it would be virtually impossible for that person to have committed all the crimes. For so many reasons (no blood anywhere on him, for one). Perhaps this will be explained better in the second game, which I've also played but forgotten. I can recommend the game, though it falls beneath most games where players cannot die. Good graphics and highly atmospheric locations, a decent enough story (until the end). But beware that right click option. We played for a total of 24 hours, taking solutions where needed and seemingly stuck.
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If not for the story and incredible atmosphere this would have been only an okay game. Often the game tells you little to none what to do next. The puzzles are mostly logical maybe except the stage before the very end where it comes to just trial and error. The worst case is when you have to wander around locations without any objective because you have to "wait" for other characters to do something. And by "wait" i don't mean actually wait some time but you have to go from location to location, maybe click some things until the game decides you "waited" enough. The game tells you NOTHING that you can interact with both left and right click and both are required to progress. There are places when you can die if you're not quick enough or die by clicking somewhere you weren't supposed to. Those aren't common but saving often is advised. So from gameplay perspective the game is a little lacking but the rest of the game is done at worst acceptable. The story is very good although the ending is a little rushed. I adore this game's atmosphere. It's perfect for autumn, the locations just made me unsettled constantly. Like something's wrong is going on wherever I go. Not so great voice acting actually adds to that. Speaking of sound, the sound effects are awesome. Clock tickings, rain, thunder it's done so good. Even small details like your footsteps changing depending on surface which is not so obvious for point and click, it's good touches. Despite running at all times in low resolution, it actually does this game a favor in very nice and atmospheric backgrounds. Only the janky animations and models show their age. This game is not scary at all but if you like having a little thrill and also you're looking for an adventure game, Black Mirror might be just for you. Just do yourself a favor and play this during the night and at best during rain. This will result in at least 3x the experience.
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Black Mirror is a traditional point-click game with horror, mystery and gothic elements. As a fan of this specific genre, I can easily say that it is one of the most successful works of the genre in terms of story, gameplay and atmosphere. The story of the game is set in 1981's Great Britain. You play the game as Samuel Gordon, who is the last and youngest heir of the royal family of Gordon, whose history is older than 7 centuries. Samuel hasn't visited his family in the castle of Black Mirror for years, but one day he returns to the castle to attend the funeral of his grandfather, William Gordon. William's death was quiet mysterious and nobody can find an explanation except suicide. But Samuel doubts that it was really suicide and starts to investigate William's death. During his investigation, some other people around the Black Mirror area mysteriously died and Samuel discovers a dark and ancient family secret which is related to all these events step by step. As to gameplay, Black Mirror offers a pretty easy and decent gameplay most of the time. You mainly find and collect necessary objects, use them correctly, speak with right people and solve puzzles in order to progress. Although the game doesn't give you any direct hints by showing the place of the objects you need to interact, it makes it easier for you to find them. After you interact with an object, pointer won't turn red anymore and you won't be able to interact with it again most of the time if that object isn't useful for you. Therefore, even though pixel hunting can be frustrating sometimes, it is challenging but not discouraging. And if you still interact with an object although you can't use it at that moment, it probably means that you will need it later. There are many dialogues and notes and you need to listen to and read them carefully, as they contain important information for you to progress. Especially you need to listen to dialogues carefully as the game doesn't show you a record of dialogues you made like some other games. (I think it makes the game more challenging, so it's ok) Puzzles are generally easy, logical and fun. There are no amazingly difficult or logically inconsistent puzzles that will make you go crazy. Story of the game is a nice example of gothic style; pretty deep, dark, mysterious and also filled with occult elements. Story is pretty dynamic and it always makes you wonder what will happen next as you reveal the secrets and reach to the conclusion step by step. The dark, gloomy and hauting atmosphere always perfectly matches with the story elements and keeps the feeling of mystery and unrest alive during the game. Graphics aren't great but pretty decent for a game like this and it is obvious that most dedicated point-click player won't mind at all. The perfect blend of all these elements makes this game a very unique and satisfying experience and it is the main reason that makes it successful. Black Mirror has some trivial downsides. It is noticibly slow, especially dialogues and reaction time of characters, so it requires you to be patient but I don't think it will be a big problem for most players who truely like this genre. The game doesn't have autosave so make sure you have saved the game after you completed and important part or event. There are some situations in the game that can lead you to death if you don't be careful and make a wrong move and if you don't save the game before that you will lose all of your progress. Black Mirror, in my opinion, is one of the best examples of traditional point-click games with gothic themed horror stories and you reall shouldn't omit this game, especially if you are fan of this specific genre.
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My favorite horror point&click adventure game even though it probably didn't age well... Bear in mind, this is a game from 2003 so it comes with the little hiccups we dealt with back then: no "show items" option, inconsistent use of the right mouse button, characters move a bit sluggishly and don't look too well-animated, no "hand holding" so you have to figure out what to do next yourself. Parts that were inexcusable even back then are the Zodiac slider puzzle, and at least four times, you're being told to "come back later" while another character does research for you. Meaning you wander around aimlessly with nothing to do until you've changes screens like 50, 60, 70 times to make time pass and the other character be done. Quite a poor choice to stretch the game's runtime. HOWEVER, when I played it back in the days, I absolutely loved it as a whole and I still do to this day! The gothic backgrounds are beautiful, the atmosphere creepy thanks to clever use of sound effects and eerie music, the story keeps you engaged as you really want to find out what's behind all the mystery. Also the German dub really carries the game. The voice-actors truly deliver, especially one of Germany's best voice-actors, David Nathan, as Samuel. The English dub in comparison can sound a bit goofy or hammy occasionally. Black Mirror is a product of its time, sure, but if you can overlook its weaknesses, you're in for a spooky experience.
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Black Mirror is a good start to a great series. I recommend starting from this game, but if you don't want to play this game in BM2-3 it goes over the story of this game. I had originally started with BM2 and BM3 since those were put on steam first, and BM1 got put on 2 months later. So I didn't play it in order, but I replayed all when I got BM1 and it makes much more sense. I've replayed the game 3 times, and the third time was on Windows 11 and during transitions between chapters it would take a bit to load so a few times I thought the game froze but it didn't. I didn't have this problem playing on Windows 10. Other than that, I've had no issues/technical issues playing this game what so ever. For a game this old it runs great, and handles being minimized extremely well. This game is over 21 years old right now and it still holds up really well. Even for a game made in 2003 the game does have nice graphics and the atmosphere is hauntingly good. Though the characters do look a bit rough for this day and age. There are a couple of plot holes in this game That are answered at the beginning of BM2. I see a lot of complaints about this game, especially with the graphics and difficulty but it seems that most people don't understand that this game came out in 2003 and even 21 years later it's stood the test of time very well. Graphics wise the scenes are pretty, character wise they aren't the best looking but it's an old game. The game is on the harder side, there's no hint system, and it doesn't hold your hand like newer games do. That's how older games used to be made. Even so, this game is still better than most P&C's made nowadays. I like the voice acting, it's not at all bad especially for a game that came out in 2003. The music is eerily haunting and well done, same with the ambiance, you just don't get many games like this anymore. "Most" the puzzles over all are very easy, especially since you're given the answers- most of the answers are literally thrown in your face.... where as other puzzles you actually need to figure out how to solve which some can be a pain. The cons Now I will say the biggest downfall is there's about 4 times in this game where you have to "wait" on people, which requires you to just run around and go different places just to waste time and wait before the person you need would give you or tell you things. I can honestly say this game could've done without that since I spend a total of 15-20ish minutes wasting time waiting on people do to things. One in particular took about 8-10 mins to trigger third playthrough. The worst part is you literally need to wander off and visit places and there's nothing to do while waiting, since the game is very particular about the order you can do puzzles and pick up things. At times, when some characters speak, the music is louder so it can be hard to understand, even for Samuel. But it happens in few places. These are the only cons I can say about this game. If you need help, there's no hint system, the hint system included only shows you areas you can go- so I did have to use a walkthrough for stuff all 3 of my playthroughs. I personally don't mind using guides for a lot of these P&C games since I tend to over think puzzles anyways. Best advice I can give is check EVERYTHING on the screen. This game can be hard to get going, since a big chunk of the first hourish or so of the game is you running around Black Mirror Castle doing stuff and talking to people. The pacing is slow, but if you read and listen to dialogue you can understand the story it is explained very well. Honestly the way this game ends, is good, especially since it continues on with BM2 & BM3 as Darren, throughout the series it explains everything that happens when it comes to the Gordon curse, so if you play this game and don't still don't understand, there's 2 more games to carry on the story. You do get a map and you can fast travel, you can double click on the screen to go into the next area and it transitions faster than just walking. SAVE and save frequently Especially right before certain puzzles. Final thoughts All in all- I highly recommend playing this whole series especially if you're a big P&C gamer. Honestly Black Mirror 2 is my favorite out of the 3 but this game is still really good. The story gets better with each game played. The complete ending after all 3 games is well worth it. This series is on my top 5 favorite P&C games.
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Black Mirror I is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
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Black Mirror I received 1,128 positive votes out of a total of 1,350 achieving a rating of 7.97.
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Black Mirror I was developed by Future Games and Unknown Identity and published by THQ Nordic.
Black Mirror I is playable and fully supported on Windows.
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Black Mirror I is a single-player game.
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Unknown Identity
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