2014 · RPG · Turn-Based · Tactical
How long isBlackguards?
by Daedalic Entertainment
17 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 4.5 hours and 43 hours
Blackguards among the 100 tactical RPGs here
The whole tier list#25
of 100
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 53%
- got past 2 hours
- +14 on the kind's 39%
- 9%
- past 20 hours
- about the kind's 8%
- 72%
- launched it
- +21 on the kind's 51%
- 162
- libraries own it
- 1 in 15 of the 2,483 read here
Next to it in the ranking
A slow burner: 50% recommend it at 2–5 hours, 80% at 50–100 hours.
38% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
50% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
50% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
58% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
71% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
80% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
Does Blackguards hold up?
Grows on people
Do the first two hours of Blackguards tell you?
In the first two hours38%recommend it
After that66%recommend it
38 in 100 said no: 30 after the window had closed, 8 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 17 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4.5 hours and 43 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 3,920 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 50% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 80% at 50–100 hours.
14% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 38% of those recommend it. After the window, 66% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 78% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 8 hours in.
When would you get there?
17days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 17 hours on Tuesday, December 1.
Half of its reviewers had played between 4.5 and 43 hours: Nov 19 to Dec 27 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in Blackguards?
The filter
Beyond the Border
19 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold The Breakout and never earned it.
How this is counted
36% of the players who launched Blackguards hold The Breakout, its first story achievement on Steam, and 6.8% hold Endgame, its last. The steepest drop comes between The Breakout (36%) and Beyond the Border (17%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Where did you leave it?
Stopped part way? Your Steam profile brings back the story so far, read aloud, up to the last story achievement you hold. Nothing past it.
No Steam, or played it elsewhere?
Is Blackguards worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
Blackguards
- Steam list price, US
- $11.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 17 h
- tactical RPG rate
- $1.50/h
- 17 h at that rate
- $25
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Blackguards worth it? Yes.
A steal
2.1× the hours of a typical tactical RPG, for the same money
Mixed
66% recommend it after the refund windowmost tactical RPGs: 86%
Gets played
72% of owners here have played itmost tactical RPGs: 54%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $11.99, the typical player's 17 hours come to 71¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 66% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 71¢ an hour, Blackguards is cheaper per hour than 105 of 134 tactical RPGs here: the typical one of 134 tactical RPGs here charges $1.50, so the same $11.99 buys 2.1× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (tactical RPGs) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play Blackguards today?
Remastered
Play Blackguards: Definitive Edition, out on PS4 and Xbox One in 2016.
- todayPC2014
- todayPS42016remastered
- todayXbox One2016remastered
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Blackguards came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Blackguards?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Blackguards, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Blackguards would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@veliallast holds this page
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Blackguards: a kind of game it is that Blackguards is not, a feature its tags carry that Blackguards's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.