
20 years, I think, after Mage Wars, which were already around 400 years in the past while playing first Drakensang). I think that Blackguards games are (will be, actually) set after Chains of Satinav and Memoria (because of *!SPOILER ALERT!* 'honorable merchant' Harm's possible death *!END OF SPOILER ALERT!*) and Demonicon is at the very beginning (it happens. Where are the games Drakensang: The Dark Eye, Drakensang: The River of Time, Chains of Satinav, Memoria, Demonicon, Blackguards and upcoming Blackguards 2 set on The Dark Eye's timeline? They had dates, like 'This story started at year 1009 after Bosparan's fall', but all others don't have anything like that. Recently, I started playing other The Dark Eye games and I have NO IDEA how the timeline in this universe works. So, when I was younger, I spent tons of time in both Drakensang games. It isn't exactly Blackguards-only question, neither a game problem, but well.

"Fichtelmann: "Bei uns ist Game-Design kreative Diktatur"". ↑ Holowaty, Christoph (September 3, 2014).Tony Vilgotsky of Russian magazine Mir Fantastiki rated this game 8/10 and said that "deepness, enthrallment and atmosphere make this game interesting not only for turn-based RPGs' lovers and fantasy adventures' fans but for very wide circle of gamers". Except for its muddled progression system, tactical RPG Blackguards gets a lot of things right." For instance IGN's Rowan Kaiser rated the game 7.8/10 and concluded: "Good. Blackguards received mixed reviews, Metacritic gave 68/100 from 48 reviews. It remained in this position by 2016, which the company's Carsten Fichtelmann attributed to "a high rate of full price sales", compared to the greater sales quantity but lower revenue of the Deponia series.

On 4 March 2014 the DLC Blackguards: Untold Legends added seven quests relating to one of the protagonists, four weapons, eleven battle maps, and 25 tracks.īy September 2014, Blackguards had become Daedalic's highest-grossing game. There are five protagonist the player controls in varying party combinations: a dwarven bootlegger, a decadent black magician, a witch, an indigenous gladiator, and a drug-addicted half-elf huntress.

The player controls the protagonist, who tries to solve the murder of a princess, with the help of various characters he meets during his long journey. Blackguards is set in the fictional place of Aventuria within the Empire of Horasia.
