Blackout: The Darkest Night Reviews

You know what? I am going to not recommend this. Writing is ok, atmosphere ok, but it is very slow to play - text and picture reveals take forever and if you try to speed it up you can accidentally click a decision and lock yourself into moving forward. It also has boring jigsaw puzzles you need to complete to progress the story (though maybe you can skip them, I noticed I could skip after finishing the first time. Was that option always there, or only for subsequent replays?). I also felt like my decisions seemed to just lead me round and round to the same place (after trying to replay it a couple times and seeing most options seemed to be fluff that would lead back to the main path). There didn't seem to be much logic to when a decision would help or hurt me. And in the end I didn't find out what my 'Blackout' was about, why I had it, or why these events played out! I have hints, but no real conclusion. If that info is in here, I ran out of patience before unlocking it. Unsatisfying! That said I only got one ending even though I tried to replay with different choices. Not sure what paths lead to others, because as I said, my choices seemed to have little impact.