The Black Watchmen
Alice & Smith · 2015 · Puzzle, Indie, RPG, Horror, Adventure
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About The Black Watchmen
Become a Secret Agent and investigate paranormal activities in this dark Lovecraftian universe. This Alternate Reality Game will have you explore complex puzzles in-game but also in real-life; interacting with real websites, companies, and NPCs that we created as part of our universe.
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 3 of 5 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
The Black Watchmen - Alone in the Dark Web
The Black Watchmen - Mother Russia
The Black Watchmen - Original Soundtrack
The Black Watchmen - Season 2: Enduring Conflict
Free to playThe Black Watchmen - Whitechapel
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Players appreciate the game's unique concept of using real-world internet research and altered reality elements as part of its puzzle-solving, with some finding it engaging and different from typical games. However, many criticize the design for requiring illogical guesses, featuring unrealistic puzzles that break immersion, relying on external websites that are now broken or flagged as unsafe, and suffering from abandonment with outdated links that make it difficult to play today.
Don't bother this is guess what I'm thinking game - minor spoiler - One of the puzzles that a secret agent is asked to guess what state a substance is from a letter....yes that's why you spend millions training your agents to find out the form of subtances and then leave. Another had a top of the line PHD holder use just a single word as a password - research facilities don't allow them to use that through their web functions even if they wanted to it didn't make sense. - spoiler /end - Plus some 'puzzles' require website access and those websites always got flagged in my browser as unsafe and not updated so it wasn't really worth digging into everything in it. This was probably better off if the simulator was done in game where they would have better control over the game itself rather than leave it to webmasters to outdo. All of the above could be because the game is 10 years old but that is the status today as i found it as of the date of writing this review. Edited to fix a few words1 found this helpful
Pretty much an abandoned game. It never worked well anyway. Keep looking.
Hack the planet? Then you will love this game
Great concept. I love these altered reality type games. Really fun missions and great story that pulls you through. Bit harder to play these days due to broken links etc... I can only image what it was like to play when it first came out!
i like how it very hands on
It's different, in a good way. Using the real world as a playground when searching for answers to puzzles just scratches that itch for me!
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