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Blackguards 2

Daedalic Entertainment · 2015-01-20

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Franchise: The Dark Eye · Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 20, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 20, 2015 (Mac), Sep 19, 2017 (Xbox One), Jun 15, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 15, 2017 (PlayStation 4)

Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!

14
playing now
67%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
27h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Blackguards 2 is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Daedalic Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and OS X in January 2015. It was ported to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in September 2017 and Nintendo Switch in June 2022. It is a sequel to 2014's The Dark Eye: Blackguards.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 33k–79k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,313 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$0.79-92%
GOG$0.99-90%
Humble Store$0.99-90%
Steam$0.99-90%
GOG$0.99-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99-90%
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.56 at GameBillet (2025-10-30) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 184 of 188 observed days · $0.23 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

25312026-08-06 23:00 — 11 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 8 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 10 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 253 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 70 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 14 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 15 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 11 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 32 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 20 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 8 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 8 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 13 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 40 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 11 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 14 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$34.99$0.572015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $29.992015-05-04 — best price $20.992015-07-27 — best price $26.342015-11-11 — best price $34.992016-02-08 — best price $8.242016-06-07 — best price $31.152016-10-28 — best price $6.992017-03-28 — best price $3.012017-09-26 — best price $34.992018-03-20 — best price $19.992018-07-22 — best price $12.592018-12-20 — best price $2.992019-05-17 — best price $14.992019-10-09 — best price $12.592020-02-07 — best price $7.492020-06-01 — best price $1.502020-09-09 — best price $14.992020-12-05 — best price $12.592021-03-04 — best price $14.992021-05-29 — best price $7.162021-09-15 — best price $9.992021-12-20 — best price $0.992022-04-30 — best price $9.992022-08-13 — best price $8.492022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-04-17 — best price $9.992023-07-31 — best price $8.992023-12-08 — best price $0.992024-03-22 — best price $7.342024-06-20 — best price $0.992024-10-03 — best price $8.392024-12-13 — best price $1.002025-05-19 — best price $0.992025-08-18 — best price $1.002025-11-02 — best price $0.572026-03-02 — best price $1.002026-06-16 — best price $0.992026-08-30 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2142026-05-31 — 10 pageviews2026-06-03 — 16 pageviews2026-06-06 — 9 pageviews2026-06-09 — 12 pageviews2026-06-12 — 9 pageviews2026-06-15 — 10 pageviews2026-06-18 — 11 pageviews2026-06-21 — 12 pageviews2026-06-24 — 10 pageviews2026-06-27 — 20 pageviews2026-06-30 — 10 pageviews2026-07-03 — 8 pageviews2026-07-06 — 8 pageviews2026-07-09 — 14 pageviews2026-07-12 — 20 pageviews2026-07-15 — 9 pageviews2026-07-18 — 6 pageviews2026-07-21 — 12 pageviews2026-07-24 — 17 pageviews2026-07-27 — 8 pageviews2026-07-30 — 13 pageviews2026-08-02 — 15 pageviews2026-08-05 — 7 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-11 — 8 pageviews2026-08-14 — 15 pageviews2026-08-17 — 21 pageviews2026-08-20 — 16 pageviews2026-08-23 — 10 pageviews2026-08-26 — 11 pageviews2026-08-28 — 10 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
18.7%
earned "The Gladiator"
3.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,3642%50
PS4 (PlayStation)3644%50
Xbox One (Xbox)1920%50
Switch (Nintendo)110%0

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

Player tags

RPGIndieFantasyHex GridStrategyTacticalAdventureTurn-BasedDark FantasySingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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