The Game Census
Blackout cover art

Blackout

· 2019-04-23

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 23, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You will be lost in the labyrinthine house and chased by the devil in the blacked out house. You will experience tremendous fear, stress and madness playing this game and something invisible makes you get panicked and lost your mind.

51%
positive of 86 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (33 reviews).
  • · Top 42% of 41,107 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1k–5.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 86 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.19 at Game Jolt (2021-10-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
242420192023Week of 2019-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$1.192019-04-232025-09-182019-04-23 — best price $19.992019-05-23 — best price $14.992019-06-03 — best price $7.492019-06-17 — best price $14.992019-06-18 — best price $5.992019-08-12 — best price $4.192019-08-19 — best price $5.992021-05-26 — best price $1.792021-06-22 — best price $1.392021-06-29 — best price $1.792021-10-01 — best price $1.192021-10-10 — best price $1.792025-09-18 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil

Player tags

DarkGoreIndieActionHorrorMatureMysterySurvivalAdventureStory Rich

Census log

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

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