Black Mirror Reviews

Black Mirror is ranked in the 10th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Olly Smith
Top Critic
4.5 / 10.0
Feb 13, 2018

Black Mirror has potential to be a decent horror puzzle adventure, but its technical limitations and pacing issues prevents that from ever becoming apparent. Its £25 entry fee is steep for the short experience you'll be getting, and the end product feels like a shadow of its former self.

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TheSixthAxis
Steve C
Top Critic
4 / 10
Jan 31, 2018

Black Mirror is a good story that suffers from a dated application of game styles. While this is interesting in a meta way, it is not much fun to play. The narrative itself plays out fairly successfully. but it is hard to recommend it for this alone. There is definitely space for such old school adventures on modern consoles, but this is not the game to fill it. As it stands, Black Mirror itself is a title haunted by its ancient roots and will horrify the player for all the wrong reasons.

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4 / 10.0
Jan 29, 2018

It is hard to recommend Black Mirror with the amount of technical flaws present. In the game’s current state, it simply is not worth the time, even with the decent story and puzzle element.

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6.5 / 10.0
Jan 21, 2018

This game needed a little more time getting cleaned up and fixed. If some of the bugs were fixed we could have had a gem on our hands. But alas, what we have is a potentially good game that's not really broken persay but definitely needs some mending.

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3.4 / 10.0
Jan 8, 2018

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.

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6.9 / 10.0
Jan 3, 2018

Black Mirror is a good graphic adventure and an interesting update of the original trilogy. It is true that coming from King Art Games and after his latest work, The Book of Unwritten Tales, we could expect much more. Although it improves in some aspects the originals, it has failures as topical characters or the absence of a soundtrack.

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PS4Blog.net
ThaRaven403
7 / 10
Jan 2, 2018

PSN Price (PlayStation 4): $39.99

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7.4 / 10.0
Dec 29, 2017

Black Mirror does a great job setting up an unsettling atmosphere and telling a story filled with mystery and intrigue, but it falls short in creating challenging puzzles and memorable gameplay moments. It’s a case of good storytelling bogged down by uninspired gameplay. However, if you like macabre tales and ugly family secrets being dragged out, it’s got a great story to tell.

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5 / 10.0
Dec 28, 2017

The sad part of Black Mirror is that there's a really solid game here and it could have just used more polish to reach that.

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4 / 10
Dec 26, 2017

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!

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6 / 10
Dec 19, 2017

To be honest, if this Black Mirror had belonged to a decade ago, we would have terrorized the game, so much so that its producers forget about creating a game ever again! However, having a noble adventure game like Black Mirror in this deserted field of adventure genre is a reason to be satisfied and delighted. So, we try to support these types of games so that once again, we can witness the rise of golden age of this genre.

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6 / 10.0
Dec 14, 2017

There are a lot of moments where Black Mirror is pushing just on the verge of being a really solid adventure game, but those moments are too few and far between, hampered by technical issues and sloppy controls. The story is a good one, and those who are willing to wrestle with these shortcomings in favor of an interesting narrative will likely enjoy their time with Black Mirror, but in the end it is a barely better than average title.

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Readers Gambit
Guest Writer
4 / 10.0
Dec 14, 2017

It's an uphill battle to recommend the game to anyone but the most committed fan of adventure games, and Gothic horror, and even then, there's a scant 5 hours of gameplay there.

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2.5 / 10.0
Dec 13, 2017

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.

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6.3 / 10.0
Dec 13, 2017

Black Mirror is serviceable with fun gameplay elements and an engaging mystery at the center of it all, but the exploration and animation keeps this game from being great.

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GameMAG
xtr
Top Critic
5 / 10
Dec 11, 2017

Black Mirror has an interesting storyline and interesting puzzles, but at the same time game suffers from terrible optimization and lots of flaws. Of course, if you love the "old school stories", you can give the game a chance, but everyone else should pass by.

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58 / 100
Dec 9, 2017

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.

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Dec 6, 2017

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.

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6 / 10.0
Dec 6, 2017

Despite some decent puzzles, a confusing story and bland characters worsen the experience

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6.5 / 10.0
Dec 6, 2017

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.

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