Blackguards overview

Overview

Blackguards comes from Daedalic Entertainment and is published by Daedalic Entertainment. It arrived on Steam on Jan 22, 2014, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Blackguards's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 18 players at 13 September 2026 - 08:01:53 UTC, with a tracked peak near 995. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 62% positive across 3,879 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Blackguards is available in 13 languages including:

2 regional rating boards including pegi and usk

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Blackguards has sold up to 397,000 units and has 3,001 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $6,800,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Blackguards overview details

Blackguards combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Buzz Buy Blackguards 2 Blackguards Deluxe Edition: About the Game What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder. Play as a warrior, mage or hunter and customize your character's skills as you see fit. The challenging campaign delivers a story of doubt, treason and loss. You decide the course of the story at key turning points and determine its outcome. Key Features More than 180 unique battlemaps provide ever-evolving and novel challenges. Make sure you have plenty of snacks, as this dark fantasy adventure has 40+ hours of exciting play time. Lead up to five characters in your party to glorious victory or devastating defeat. Enjoy enchanting hand drawn backdrops. They're beautiful even when your party members get their asses handed to them. Your choice of spells, skills and abilities determine your battlefield tactics. Aggressive? Defensive? Tactical? It's your call how to tackle each challenging encounter! Use interactive objects like bee hives or barrels to your advantage in combat, or blow yourself up by carrying a torch into flammable swamp gas. Dish out some serious damage with 40 special abilities and more than 90 spells... or find yourself on the other end and get obliterated.

SteamPulse editorial summary

Blackguards is listed as a game with $0.99 (90% off from $9.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 18 players at 13 September 2026 - 08:01:53 UTC, a tracked peak of 995, and 62% positive reviews.

Overview tags

RPGTurn-BasedStrategyTacticalFantasyIndieSingleplayerTurn-Based StrategyAdventureTactical RPGIsometricHex GridCharacter CustomizationDark FantasyTurn-Based Tactics

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