BlackChain

BlackChain

Borington · March 17, 2021 · RTS, Base Building, Sci-fi, Strategy, Singleplayer

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lowest tracked $2.49
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BlackChain price by region

BlackChain costs $3.29 in Georgia (USD), €3.99 in Europe (EUR), £3.99 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, CA$5.69 in Canada, NZ$6.29 in New Zealand, A$7.50 in Australia, R$10.89 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest BlackChain offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $3.29 $3.29 — 1
Europe (EUR) €3.99 €3.99 — 1
United Kingdom £3.99 £3.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Canada CA$5.69 CA$5.69 — 1
New Zealand NZ$6.29 NZ$6.29 — 1
Australia A$7.50 A$7.50 — 1
Brazil R$10.89 R$10.89 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About BlackChain

✦ AI summary

BlackChain is a story-driven real-time strategy game where you build bases and command land and air forces across the Solar System in a dystopian future dominated by ruthless corporations. It delivers classic RTS gameplay with a full campaign of 12 voiced missions, skirmish battles against up to 8 AI opponents, and a map editor for custom games.

In the year 2088, the Solar System is ruled by those who can exploit it the most efficiently. Corporations constantly push the boundaries of space exploration, artificial intelligence, quantum cryptography and ruthlessness.
BlackChain is a story-based real time strategy game, inspired by the old days of game development. It includes:
  • A classic RTS campaign across the Solar System
  • 12 unique story missions with full voice acting
  • Base building
  • Land and air combat
  • Skirmish mode versus AI, up to 8 players
  • Map Editor, custom games
  • A lot of technobabble

About the developer


Borington is a one-man development team based in Transylvania, this is our second game, after Rum & Gun

Got some ideas or questions? Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/rpqXuZPwQE

BlackChain — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player, Multiplayer
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

BlackChain is an indie RTS that combines StarCraft-style gameplay with unique mechanics like unit-to-building conversion and territory heat management, earning praise for its strategic depth and solid soundtrack. However, players consistently criticize the broken physics system that allows units to push through obstacles and each other, turning combat into chaotic "death-ball" strategies that undermine tactical gameplay and immersion.

Not recommended Aug 17, 2026
Great game for indie dev, unfortunately can't be taken seriously with the way the movement physics works: everything can just push through everything else. So the game map becomes very meaningless with bigger armies, nothing can stand in your way, you can just literally push anything together and annihilate it all with area-damage death-ball attacks. That. Or you cannot stop anything from passing you if it is tankier and faster than you. Leads to frustrating and comedic micro that breaks immersion of gaming very quick.
Recommended Aug 5, 2026
Good
Recommended Jul 14, 2026
https://youtu.be/o4rhtUCMgHk It's a StarCraft-based RTS game with pocket economy, face cams, zerg-peasants which turn into buildings. From Command & Conquer, it takes in-field pickups like resource crates and medkits. There are buildings to occupy with infantry. The rubber frame is selecting the entire army instead of being limited to packs. The original ideas is combining houses and the second resource into one building, and forcing territory spread by tracking the "heat" load on a square grid, giving big penalties to "heat"-dependant buildings in the overheated square. The story is full of cool buzzword writing. So, Microslope was ordered to break up by court, so now Naver, Alibaba, and Yandex fight over their assets. You mine space unobtainium and space crypto, the campaign even tracks the story stonks. The campaign is 12-missions long and is fun enough, with a couple of cool gimmicky maps. Despite the maps having resource crates the strategy is closer to Dune 2. Wait and defend while accumulating an army and then attack. But since defence towers are literally useless and even peasants destroy them, and they demand nouncraft costs investment and have to be spread out due to …
Recommended Mar 18, 2026
Good Buy Worth it!
Recommended Dec 20, 2025
StarCraft 3
Recommended Nov 19, 2025
very, very good. def worth the money. after playing soulstorm, the strategies you need to use in this were strikingly shocking to me and im still not too sure what to do. great ost tho, gotta love metal

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