The Blackwell Legacy
When Rosa Blackwell's only relative dies after twenty years in a coma, she thinks the worst is over. This all changes when Joey Mallone, a sardonic ghost from the 1930s, blows into her life and tells her that…
The Blackwell Legacy is an adventure developed by Wadjet Eye Games, released 23 December 2006 on Android, iOS, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 2.7 hrs to finish.
What The Blackwell Legacy is
The Blackwell Legacy is an adventure game developed by Wadjet Eye Games and released in 2006. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Adventure Game Studio.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, drama and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 8 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Blackwell Legacy holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 70 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2.7 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium or higher, 64 MB RAM and 640x400, 32-bit colour: 700 Mhz system minimum. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
The Blackwell Legacy launched on 23 December 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, WarioWare: Smooth Moves and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Blackwell Legacy 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.
Screenshots
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Characters
All 13
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