Blackguards 2
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Blackguards 2 is an adventure developed by Daedalic Entertainment, released 20 January 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac. It currently starts at $0.99 at WinGameStore. The main story takes about 27 hrs to finish.
What Blackguards 2 is
Blackguards 2 is an adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Three years have passed since Count Uria´s plots. The Vanquishers of the Nine Hordes long parted ways but life in Aventuria went on. Cassia, a young woman of noble descent, has only one goal: She wants to claim the Shark Throne, no matter the price; and be it only for one day. Unfortunately, there are two problems that potentially foil her plans. First of all, she spends her days incarcerated in a dungeon and secondly, there is already a man on her throne: Marwan. She is neither fond nor proficient in matters of diplomacy or politics, so she chooses a more... practical approach. She intends to break out of prison and overthrow Marwan to claim the throne herself. For this, she needs strong…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, party and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Dark Eye series
Blackguards 2 is the 13th of 15 entries we hold in the The Dark Eye series. It arrived 12 months after Blackguards. The next entry was Realms of Arkania: Star Trail in 2017. Its critic score of 74 is 2 points above the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Dark Eye: Memoria at 77.
How it was received
Blackguards 2 holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 27 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $0.99, that works out to about $0.04 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce 8600 / GT, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 12GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.99 at WinGameStore, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Blackguards 2 launched on 20 January 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Blackguards 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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