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The Blackwell Legacy

Wadjet Eye Games · 2012-01-13

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 13, 2012 (Mac), Jan 13, 2012 (Linux), Jan 13, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 08, 2014 (Android), Jul 10, 2014 (iOS)

When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.

3
playing now
89%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (66 ratings)
2.7h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

The Blackwell Legacy is a 2006 graphic adventure video game, developed by Wadjet Eye Games, and released on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. The game involves players assuming the role of a young freelance writer living a solitary life in New York City, until she encounters a male ghost who reveals she belongs to a family of mediums, a life she is forced to adjust to as she discovers a spate of recent deaths were not natural.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 66k–131k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,643 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2014-06-24) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-11 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $1.492015-06-11 — best price $1.492015-12-22 — best price $1.692016-06-23 — best price $1.492016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-10-26 — best price $1.492017-12-21 — best price $0.992018-03-26 — best price $1.992018-10-30 — best price $0.992018-12-20 — best price $1.242019-05-16 — best price $1.492019-10-07 — best price $1.992019-11-26 — best price $1.492020-01-23 — best price $1.492020-06-25 — best price $1.492020-11-25 — best price $1.492021-02-11 — best price $1.492021-10-28 — best price $1.492021-12-22 — best price $1.492022-05-16 — best price $1.492022-10-25 — best price $1.492022-12-22 — best price $1.492023-06-29 — best price $1.492023-11-21 — best price $3.042024-02-15 — best price $2.492024-06-27 — best price $2.492024-11-27 — best price $1.492025-03-13 — best price $1.492025-06-27 — best price $1.492025-10-27 — best price $1.492026-01-12 — best price $1.492026-03-19 — best price $1.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4272026-05-31 — 22 pageviews2026-06-03 — 8 pageviews2026-06-06 — 24 pageviews2026-06-09 — 11 pageviews2026-06-12 — 11 pageviews2026-06-15 — 16 pageviews2026-06-18 — 23 pageviews2026-06-21 — 19 pageviews2026-06-24 — 13 pageviews2026-06-27 — 42 pageviews2026-06-30 — 22 pageviews2026-07-03 — 29 pageviews2026-07-06 — 20 pageviews2026-07-09 — 22 pageviews2026-07-12 — 24 pageviews2026-07-15 — 13 pageviews2026-07-18 — 24 pageviews2026-07-21 — 25 pageviews2026-07-24 — 22 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-30 — 21 pageviews2026-08-02 — 13 pageviews2026-08-05 — 16 pageviews2026-08-08 — 21 pageviews2026-08-11 — 15 pageviews2026-08-14 — 24 pageviews2026-08-17 — 19 pageviews2026-08-20 — 10 pageviews2026-08-23 — 16 pageviews2026-08-26 — 19 pageviews2026-08-28 — 17 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
56.2%
earned "Hello Joey"
19.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudCommentary availableRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,54433%8

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

Player tags

2DNoirIndieRetroPuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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