Blackout: The Darkest Night (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Blackout: The Darkest Night

A Choose Your Own Adventure inspired by White Wolf’s World of Darkness, Twin Peaks and H.P. Lovecraft. You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget…

19 August 2021

What Blackout: The Darkest Night is

Blackout: The Darkest Night is an adventure game developed by MiniChimera Game Studio and released in 2021. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You play as a man who finds himself lost in a dark street somewhere in the city of New Wenders. It doesn’t take long before you start having flashbacks and regaining your memory. Something terrible happened, and you were part of it. This event somehow opened your eyes to a whole new world that has been hiding beneath the shadows. As the player, you have the choice to dig deeper into this unspeakable deed or try to leave it all behind. Blackout is a game about choices, every chapter of the game takes place in a different location, and the order in which the chapters take place will change based on your choices. Even more so, the path you take inside each chapter varies greatly, and the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Blackout: The Darkest Night launched on 19 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and Black Book. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, Black Book.

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