Black Mirror Reviews
Black Mirror fails to succeed in anything but few interesting puzzles and nice gothic atmosphere.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Black Mirror's reboot, a collaboration between King Art and THQ Nordic is not what we expected. The fact that the story and puzzles are fine doesn't hide the awful characters, bad controls, woeful animations, glitches and all the other technical problems.
Review in Persian | Read full review
There's nothing that helps redeem Black Mirror for all of the issues that plague it. There are bits and pieces of a good game but they're buried under bad design and awful tech that keep Black Mirror from ever becoming an engaging experience.
PSN Price (PlayStation 4): $39.99
Black Mirror reboot is a complete failure and disappointment. Broken gameplay and weak story is just the beginning, and as you progress into the game, you’ll come along an enormous amount of bugs and glitches that will make you to just stop playing and starting the uninstall process!
Review in Persian | Read full review
Black Mirror comes up short as both an adventure and horror game. Bugs and graphical issues don't help the already exceptionally dull story. I can only imagine it does very little justice for the original series it is based off. Whatever you do, don't go to Black Mirror castle.
Black Mirror is a very traditional adventure game. It has some remarkable moments in its narration and puzzle parts, yet boring pace, terrible characterization, clumsy mission design, and tons of bugs have destroyed the experience of the game. But of course, considering we barely can see this kind of games nowadays, we still recommend you to try it, if you are a big fan of AVGs.
Review in Chinese | Read full review
Despite a few hiccups, Black Mirror successfully carves out an intriguing six-hour narrative-driven experience thanks to its stellar voice-acting cast, authentic atmosphere and excellent characters
Black Mirror Re-explores An Adventure Of Madness And Lineage
The Black Mirror reboot revolves around dark family secrets, with a narrative that pays homage to classic gothic tales. Even so it has a lot of technical flaws: from graphics issues to bugs and bad animations, there's little to save from this point of view.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Black Mirror starts with an interesting premise and decent voice acting, but the combination of poor controls and atrocious camera angles paired with a garbled story and uninteresting characters drag this experience to the bottom of the abyss.
Despite creating a macabre atmosphere and delivering some decent puzzles early on, Black Mirror is a somewhat insipid and uninspired adventure game exacerbated by frequent loading screens and shoddy presentation throughout. It belongs at the bottom of a deep loch.
A failed resurrection of a once great IP. Black Mirror is short, boring and predictible, and in current technical condition it shouldn't even be released.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Black Mirror attempts to bring a horror-themed point-and-click adventure game to a new audience but is hampered by glaring technical setbacks. On more than one occasion, David had become stuck, only to seemingly slowly rotate himself in place with no way to free yourself. During one of the game's pivotal cutscenes, the game crashed with an alarmingly loud buzzing noise before crashing back to the Xbox home screen. Exploring the eerie mansion and the accompanying ground should be more enjoyable, but the frequent loading screens ruin the experience. If you can overlook these issues, I found the characters and the narrative quite compelling, but at the same time, there is no reason to play through the game multiple times.
That is simply the best way to describe the game—it just doesn't work. Besides a clever story that reveals itself every so often and an eerie atmosphere that is perfect for this type of game, Black Mirror is a missed opportunity to truly modernize the 2003 original. I feel like the game hasn't learned anything from the likes of Tales From The Borderlands or Life Is Strange in the same way that Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier has. It feels like a game that is purposefully ignoring its competition in an era where Andy Serkis and other filmmakers have made it a point to get into the story-focused, adventure game genre. Black Mirror, unlike the Netflix show with the same name, refuses to trek into the future, instead resulting in a game that feels stuck in the past.
This Black Mirror reboot is a wonky adventure game flawed witfh some terrible gameplay ideas and a lot of loadings issues. Even if you're a fan of the genre and a patient gamer, it's hard to recommend it.
Review in French | Read full review
This new version for the 2004's Black Mirror game features some nice and enjoyable puzzles, but it deeply fails at its technical side.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Black Mirror often alludes to the Gothic classics that inspired it, to stories full of disturbing, evil forces that threaten to overtake their characters, but the only unsettling thing about it is a glut of technical issues.
… for being a new game its full of issues that shouldn't have plagued this otherwise enjoyable experience.
We really wanted to like Black Mirror more than we did, but a few too many technical hitches put a cap on our enjoyment. This mystery is absolutely one worth solving thanks to the captivating plot and engaging characters, but be prepared to wrestle with poor controls, glitches, and frequent load times.