Blackwell Deception

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 4 expert reviews

Excellent:

2
Good:

0
Average:

1
Bad:

1

Pros:

It's a nice, long game. You play as two characters, one of them being a ghost. Sneak into rooms as a ghost, question spirits as Rosa or Joey and use your phone to search the web for clues! Finally learn the truth about Joey.
Sensible puzzles with text adventure elements; likable characters; neonoir tone, refreshing take on supernatural subject matter.

Cons:

The puzzles can be challenging causing you to spend a lot of time revisiting places and re-talking to people. Silly voice acting.
Story is cliched and predictable, some humor falls flat, mediocre voiceacting.

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Last revision on January 26, 2015

Reviewers Liked

It's a nice, long game. You play as two characters, one of them being a ghost. Sneak into rooms as a ghost, question spirits as Rosa or Joey and use your phone to search the web for clues! Finally learn the truth about Joey
Sensible puzzles with text adventure elements; likable characters; neonoir tone, refreshing take on supernatural subject matter

Reviewers Didn't Like

The puzzles can be challenging causing you to spend a lot of time revisiting places and re-talking to people. Silly voice acting
Story is cliched and predictable, some humor falls flat, mediocre voiceacting

Expert reviews and ratings

It was actually frustrating to start The Blackwell Deception. Not because it required drivers or a patch or anything, but it was just so pushy. Its own Start Menu and Programs folders? A Quick Launch icon? Bit cocky for an indie adventure game, ain’t...

By Strategy Informer on February 07, 2012

What better partner can a detective have than a ghost? Well, Rosa is not actually a detective but a medium who helps ghosts pass to the other side. It seems she can’t help these ghosts without doing a little detective work first with a lot of help...

By GamerTell on October 28, 2011

A deft pairing of sensible puzzles with text adventure elements and likable characters, but the story is clichéd, predictable and haunted by some flat humour and acting....

By PC Advisor on October 14, 2011

A well-crafted point-and-click adventure, but a subpar ghost story, Blackwell Deception feels undercooked, like a spirit medium-rare. I'm beginning to think that point-and-click adventure games are haunted. Word on the street is that the genre's been...

By GamePro on October 13, 2011

Rosa decides to meet up with an old friend but instead finds him dead. Now she must go on a wild goose chase to find out who killed him and the crazy link the killer has to several other spirits and a fake psychic. Blackwell Deception is the fourth...

By technologytell.com on October 28, 2011

Wadjet Eye has released the fourth installment to their Blackwell series, entitled Blackwell Deception today for the PC. Even though this is the fourth installment for Wadjet Eye, this will be my very first Blackwell game, so I will tackle the review...

By GamingShogun on October 18, 2011