The Game Census
Black Mirror I cover art

Black Mirror I

Future Games · THQ Nordic · 2014-06-17

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 17, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Black Mirror is a dark adventure game that details the aftermath of the tragic death of William Gordon. Playing as his grandson Samuel players must unveil the truth behind the events of that fateful, stormy night.

1
playing now
84%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (78 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

The Black Mirror is a third-person point-and-click horror adventure game developed in 2003 by Czech company Future Games. Its original name is Posel Smrti. The game features 150 locations and 5 hours of spoken dialogue. The Black Mirror became a commercial success, with 500,000 units sold worldwide by 2008. It was particularly successful in Germany, under publisher DTP Entertainment. Two sequels, Black Mirror II: Reigning Evil and Black Mirror III: Final Fear, were released.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 25% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 37k–89k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,488 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.89 at GamesPlanet UK (2016-07-11) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 115 of 116 observed days · $9.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2002026-08-06 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 12 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 20 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 12 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 14 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 8 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 13 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 12 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 13 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $3.992015-06-21 — best price $9.992015-11-10 — best price $10.952016-04-04 — best price $4.972016-10-21 — best price $2.492017-04-17 — best price $2.502017-10-30 — best price $1.842018-01-09 — best price $8.502018-02-24 — best price $9.992018-04-10 — best price $9.992018-05-25 — best price $2.492018-07-09 — best price $9.992018-08-23 — best price $2.492018-10-07 — best price $9.992018-12-21 — best price $2.492019-06-25 — best price $2.492019-11-01 — best price $2.492020-02-17 — best price $2.502020-06-26 — best price $9.892020-08-10 — best price $9.992020-09-27 — best price $9.992020-11-30 — best price $2.502021-06-14 — best price $2.502021-11-03 — best price $9.992022-03-01 — best price $8.432022-07-03 — best price $2.492022-11-23 — best price $2.492023-03-24 — best price $9.992023-06-20 — best price $9.992023-09-13 — best price $9.992024-01-05 — best price $2.492024-05-19 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $2.492025-04-21 — best price $9.992025-10-07 — best price $2.492026-03-09 — best price $2.492026-07-25 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

135302026-05-31 — 59 pageviews2026-06-03 — 33 pageviews2026-06-06 — 36 pageviews2026-06-09 — 49 pageviews2026-06-12 — 55 pageviews2026-06-15 — 40 pageviews2026-06-18 — 63 pageviews2026-06-21 — 56 pageviews2026-06-24 — 55 pageviews2026-06-27 — 135 pageviews2026-06-30 — 55 pageviews2026-07-03 — 66 pageviews2026-07-06 — 64 pageviews2026-07-09 — 47 pageviews2026-07-12 — 50 pageviews2026-07-15 — 55 pageviews2026-07-18 — 43 pageviews2026-07-21 — 71 pageviews2026-07-24 — 45 pageviews2026-07-27 — 70 pageviews2026-07-30 — 44 pageviews2026-08-02 — 40 pageviews2026-08-05 — 38 pageviews2026-08-08 — 56 pageviews2026-08-11 — 45 pageviews2026-08-14 — 37 pageviews2026-08-17 — 48 pageviews2026-08-20 — 41 pageviews2026-08-23 — 50 pageviews2026-08-26 — 48 pageviews2026-08-28 — 53 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Czech

Player tags

DarkGothicHorrorPuzzleClassicMysteryThrillerAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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