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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.

Blackwell Deception is a point & click, adventure and indie game developed and published by Wadjet Eye Games.
Released on January 13th 2012 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 604 reviews of which 579 were positive and 25 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.23€ on Eneba.

The Steam community has classified Blackwell Deception into these genres:

Point & Click Adventure Indie Female Protagonist Supernatural Mystery Detective Noir Pixel Graphics Singleplayer Story Rich 2D Atmospheric Third Person Puzzle Short

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS:Windows ME or higher
  • Processor:Pentium or higher
  • Memory:64 MB RAM
  • Graphics:640x400, 32-bit colour: 700 Mhz system minimum
  • DirectX®:5.0
  • Hard Drive:350 MB HD space
  • Sound:All DirectX-compatible sound cards
MacOS
  • OS Version: 10.11
  • Architecture: 64bit
  • Memory: 2 GB
  • Storage: 1.5 GB
Linux
  • OS Version: Ubuntu, Debian, Arch - (64 bit)
  • Processor: Pentium or higher processor
  • Memory: 2 GB
  • Graphics: OpenGL
  • Storage: 1.5 GB
  • Sound Card: Alsa/PulseAudio/DSP

User reviews & Ratings

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9 hours played
July 2026
The toughest, ghostiest game in the series yet featuring FOUR spooks in need of spiritual consulting! Combining clues system makes a very welcome return and puzzle difficulty in Blackwell Deception cranks it up a notch -- which is for the better. I love how Wadjet Eye interconnects characters (Ken and Cecil Sharpe, Sam Durkin) so their stories are never forgotten.
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3 hours played
June 2026
The 4th Blackwell game was a strong entry narratively, with some weaker elements in the design side. The Pros: - The voice acting is, in my opinion, the best it's been up to this point, even if the implementation technically sometimes has lines playing in too rapid succession. - The interiority of the two protagonists, Joey especially, is explored in fresh and compelling ways, and the feeling of the pair's growth as a team across games is satisfying. - The usage of the pair to solve and interact with puzzles feels the most balanced its been. The Cons: - I had to check external guides more than I have in other games, with a few instances of very small objects or even one not visible to the player at the game's camera angle being crucial to understanding and advancing a puzzle. _ The character sprites felt... worse? I'm not sure why, but Rosa's sprite was not impressive especially. I'm still fond of the character portraits however, and there's one beat where the pair just exchanges looks, an interaction solely told in portraiture, that made me laugh. - I would've liked to see more exploration of the themes of loneliness and unfulfillment be reflected in the protagonists than there was. Overall, still a positive experience! The flow of the game was quite natural, and I almost always knew where to be, even when I couldn't crack what to do. One game left- The Grand Finale.
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4 hours played
May 2026
Playing the Blackwell games back to back, and they just keep getting better. This has been my favourite story in the series so far its incredibly dark, with a mysterious villain and a really satisfying payoff at the end. The voice acting and music are fantastic once again. Just a genuinely great series of games.
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7 hours played
Sept. 2025
This game's story was insane, it went from 0 to 100 given Convergence, and it introduced the first ever true villain in a WadjetEye game I think, this was phenomenal in terms of story, altough I do have some weird feelings about certain puzzles. Despite I got what I wished for, this game being finally more than just clue combining, there were so many weird solutions to puzzles that the connections kind of felt like they are not obvious, for example at Tiffany's apartman the glowing card was a mistake "try this" thing, since I totally forgot about the info that it glows in the dark, to find Jeremy's phone nothing stated that you should call it at that exact spot, at the nursing home, I didn't know you could get soft-locked by blowing the key in a wrong order, so I thought I still need something for the ball of yarn to get it, rather than resetting the puzzle. For a game series that usually info dumps, this was sure very hard as a puzzle game, Oogle search sometimes didn't search for the info I thought could be relevant, but some random text from a plaque seem to be a key to a puzzle. It might be sounding like I hated every single puzzle that there was in the game, and it's not that, since everything on the yacht, the Motel, the Jamie sequence were amazing and flawless, but it IS true that a bunch of puzzle needed more clues to be given or nudge the player towards the right direction. Hell, some puzzle even recquired to ask Joey what to do to progress, and the reason I didn't ask him is because I thought that option is to get hints, not to progress. So yeah, the story was amazing, but the puzzles despite having amazing concepts tied around them, their execution needed a bit more polish, I feel. Regardless, out of all the Blackwell games this is definetely my favourite one, even with all it's puzzle problems, the story makes up for all of this. Rosa was badass at the end.
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7 hours played
Aug. 2025
Just as great as the other parts of this series! (Do play chronologically, it's a cool story, otherwise you'll miss out on a LOT!) As always suspensefull storyline with lots of clues to figure out, nice nostalgic gameplay and pixel graphics, very good voice acting and the usual humour! I'm honestly in love with the two main characters, too bad one of them is a ghost, I'd ship them... I'm SO looking forward to the next and last part of this series although it's gonna be really sad to say good bye after that... I wish there were at least 5 more parts to go! Or 10. 10 would be even better :)
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Blackwell Deception is currently priced at 8.99€ on Steam.

No, Blackwell Deception is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 8.99€ on Steam.

Yes, Blackwell Deception received 579 positive votes out of a total of 604 achieving a rating of 8.92.
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Blackwell Deception was developed and published by Wadjet Eye Games.

Yes, Blackwell Deception is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Yes, Blackwell Deception is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Yes, Blackwell Deception is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Blackwell Deception is a single-player game.

Yes, there is a DLC available for Blackwell Deception. Explore additional content available for Blackwell Deception on Steam.

No, Blackwell Deception does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Blackwell Deception does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Blackwell Deception is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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