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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.

The Blackwell Legacy 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 1,551 reviews of which 1,387 were positive and 164 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.97€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified The Blackwell Legacy into these genres:

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

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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:200 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

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July 2025

More an opening chapter than a game. Lovely characters and writing. Puzzles... to be desired a bit.

May 2025

Recommended for: This is a bit of a weird game to review. The Blackwell Legacy is the first game in the Blackwell series, which consists of five games in total. The series as a whole is great and I highly recommend it to any point'n click adventure fan. That means you have to play this game first to understand the story. The Blackwell Legacy is not a terrible game, but it certainly isn't the best introduction to the series. It has some positive points, like a nice supernatural story, interesting characters and good voice acting. Unfortunately, the gameplay is somewhat of a rough experience. The puzzles don't make much sense and it's mostly trial-and-error clicking. The very first puzzle is a textbook example of why some people don't like adventure games. The game is also fairly short. Still, I do recommend playing it because like I said, the Blackwell series overall is worth playing. But if this had been a standalone game, I’m not sure I would have recommended it. My experience: I really have mixed feelings about this game. I like the story and characters, and I really liked the voice acting of the two protagonists. On the other hand, the gameplay is so annoying it makes me want to strangle someone with a ghost tie. I’ve played all of the Blackwell games and I found this one to be definitely the weakest of the series. Technical: I had no technical issues while playing, except the default music volume was a bit loud for me and there is no setting in the option menu to change it. I later found out that you can press F2 and F3 to change the music volume. (Win10,7800X3D,RX7800XT) Personal Rating: 2/5

April 2025

I accidentally reviewed the wrong Blackwell like a doofus, so here's my review on the whole series: https://steamcommunity.com/id/magerama/recommended/80360/ These games could use an additional bump anyway (and them bloody numbers). Since I'm here, gotta say the first game isn't entirely representative, they only get bigger and better. Doesn't mean you should skip it, still a great adventure. But expect improvements, don't drop the series if Legacy didn't do it for you. I promise you'll get back to it with a new outlook after finishing Epiphany - and by that time you'll be craving more like a hungry spirit. This reminds me of Shadowrun. I didn't even like the first game initially, skipped straight to Dragonfall, then played Hong Kong... then crawled back to the flawed original with a newfound appreciation, embracing it like it's family.

March 2025

I like it - I'm into Point & Click games since the 80s and this one feels just like one of those. It's not a must-play but it's nice, the graphics are quite cute, the characters are well done, the voice acting is pretty decent (although some voices were a bit muted and sadly there was no way to turn the music down and the voices up or something like that - but there are subtitles) and the story is a good one even if it's a bit short.

March 2025

If you haven't played Unavowed, the 2018 game also by Wadjet Eye, go play that instead. It is more polished, with better writing, better sound, better puzzles, better graphics, better everything. It is set in the same universe in the same city in the same genre of story. If you have played Unavowed and you would be happy with a much less polished game made by a much less experienced Wadjet Eye, then give the Blackwell series a try, starting here. Later installments get better slowly, ending up significantly below Unavowed but still quite nice. All in all, I enjoyed this game and the rest of the series. If you don't like this game, I don't think it's worth hanging on for the later installments.

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The Blackwell Legacy is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam.

The Blackwell Legacy is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.49€ on Steam.

The Blackwell Legacy received 1,387 positive votes out of a total of 1,551 achieving a rating of 8.51.

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The Blackwell Legacy was developed and published by Wadjet Eye Games.

The Blackwell Legacy is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Blackwell Legacy is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

The Blackwell Legacy is playable and fully supported on Linux.

The Blackwell Legacy is a single-player game.

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The Blackwell Legacy does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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