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Black & White cover art

Black & White

零创游戏(ZerocreationGame) · 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame) · 2023-03-16

Steam

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 16, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Black & White" is a dystopian visual novel + war chess game: black and white, sensibility and reason, freedom and order: follow your beliefs and join your camp.

Black & White is an Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 746 reviews).

0
playing now
73%
positive of 749 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
−40% · $8.99
was $14.99
steam price (US) · on sale

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 23 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (371 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–34k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 749 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 7 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
28928920232026Week of 2023-03-01: 289 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
772Mar 2023Jan 2025Mar 2023 — avg 77 · peak 594Apr 2023 — avg 8 · peak 49May 2023 — avg 4 · peak 16Jun 2023 — avg 3 · peak 12Sep 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2023 — avg 2 · peak 9Nov 2023 — avg 3 · peak 11Feb 2024 — avg 4 · peak 9Apr 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11May 2024 — avg 4 · peak 16Jun 2024 — avg 3 · peak 10Jul 2024 — avg 4 · peak 14Aug 2024 — avg 4 · peak 17Sep 2024 — avg 3 · peak 10Oct 2024 — avg 2 · peak 12Nov 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2024 — avg 2 · peak 9Jan 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Jan 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$8.992023-03-172026-09-292023-03-17 — best price $13.492023-04-22 — best price $13.492023-06-05 — best price $13.492023-06-30 — best price $13.492023-07-25 — best price $13.492023-11-07 — best price $10.492023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-02-20 — best price $14.992024-03-21 — best price $9.742024-05-04 — best price $9.742024-06-27 — best price $9.742024-07-31 — best price $9.742024-09-23 — best price $9.742024-11-06 — best price $9.742024-11-27 — best price $9.742024-12-19 — best price $9.742025-01-26 — best price $9.742025-03-13 — best price $9.592025-04-23 — best price $9.592025-06-20 — best price $9.442025-08-19 — best price $9.442025-09-29 — best price $9.292025-11-03 — best price $9.292025-12-18 — best price $9.142026-02-12 — best price $9.142026-03-19 — best price $8.992026-06-25 — best price $8.992026-07-23 — best price $8.992026-09-29 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

49
achievements tracked
66.4%
earned "黑之烬鸦"
16.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-04-04 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10119%49

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGJRPGAnimeFaithAliensZombiesStrategyAdventureDystopian Rogue-like

Census log

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

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