Black Mirror

If you're a fan of the other Black Mirror games, this one will be a total disappointment. It looks and sounds good, but that's avout it. Is's short, the story-telling is clumsy, the characters are poorly devised, the gameplay isn't satisfying and the controls are pure horror.

Oh dear... I would not recommend this to my enemy! Abysmal consolish controls, poorly optimised engine with subpar graphics, terrible camera which you can NOT control, INVISIBLE WALLS everywhere, terrible UI, inventory management etc. And come to think of it, this game was more expensive than previous 3 combined! Any positives? I guess voice acting was good of what I've seen at the begining and thats about it. DO NOT BUY THIS! EVEN when it's on SALE!

After playing the original 3 Black Mirror games, I couldn't way to play this "reboot" of the franchise. The game turned out to be barely playable, horribly designed and completely soulless. This is not a point and click adventure game like the originals, it is not even a good replacement for them. The only effort made when creating this game appears to be with the art assets, everything else is utterly disappointing. This is games deserves an award for how bad it is. Please just play the original 3 Black Mirror games and pretend this one never existed.

Not being able to rebind the keys deserves one star for modern games in any case, but added to that, being able to pick your own keybinds is a disability issue. As someone who can't use wasd at all, I'd give negative stars if I could. It's so much more than just a matter of convenience.

Just finished the game, on one sitting. Never playing it again. The graphical assets and the aesthetic are decent. I had artifacts and clippings all the time and even some frame drops. Gaming at 1440p was not fulfilling, I took it down to 1080p after a bit as it's very unoptimized graphically. Sound is alright : Voice acting is superb, ambient sounds are decent, sound effects are repetitive, kind of loud and generally tiresome after a while. UI is cumbersome. It gets the job done but that's just about it. It is slow and unintuitive. Movement throughout is a chore. There are constantly invisible barriers that stop your momentum immediately and slow you to a crawl. This is too constraining and limits the experience significantly. Hotspots are visible and interactable based on proximity and viewing and that mechanic is implemented in an extremely tedious way. It lowered my experience significantly. Animation is... bad. Seriously, apart from walking everything else ( like moving limbs and lips) is implemented in a very rushed and unpolished way. The game is based on animation in order to progress its cutscenes. I had a lot of freezes when automatic animations were obstructed by the game's own environment and could not complete and character could not be where the coded needed it to be in order to keep executing. Very sad, cheap and completely frustrating when I had to reload several times due in order to get out of it. At one point, simply talking to your companion while they are kneeling in the lakeshore deadlocks you into freezing. Overarching story is pretty decent but game feels rather short for it. It could easily be double its size. Plot is alright and dialogue lines are mostly very well made with some very notable drops here and there. The whole game felt like it was rushed but by using professionals. Extremely unpolished in pretty much everything, it provided me with a very low quality gameplay experience reminiscent of 2000s games.