Hello Detectives, On April 24th , answer the call of exploration and set off for Amerzone - The Explorer’s Legacy ! Embark on the quest of a lifetime aboard the Hydrafloat and explore a forgotten Latin American country to fulfill the last wishes of a late explorer. Make use of yo
Hello Detectives,
On April 24th, answer the call of exploration and set off for Amerzone - The Explorer’s Legacy!
Embark on the quest of a lifetime aboard the Hydrafloat and explore a forgotten Latin American country to fulfill the last wishes of a late explorer. Make use of your curiosity and observational skills to solve intricate puzzles and bring back the White Birds into this mysterious land.
Released in 1999, Amerzone had a great impact on the adventure genre and was ahead of its time with its ecological message. This game was also the first one Benoît Sokal created before the Syberia saga.
Witness the amazing overhaul work Microids Studio Paris did to go from the 1999 original to the 2025 version:
Hello Detectives, Celebrate the best stories video games have to offer in the Storyteller’s Festival 2025! Get Blacksad: Under the Skin at 80% off, and investigate a dark corruption scandal in the heart of New York City's underworld as charismatic detective John Blacksad! Use you
Hello Detectives,
Celebrate the best stories video games have to offer in the Storyteller’s Festival 2025!
Get Blacksad: Under the Skin at 80% off, and investigate a dark corruption scandal in the heart of New York City's underworld as charismatic detective John Blacksad!
Use your feline senses to find clues and make choices that will affect the characters and the whole story!
Hello Detectives, Good news for all the Chinese-speaking detectives out there! Blacksad: Under the Skin is now playable in Simplified Chinese Ready to dive back into this dark corruption scandal in the heart of New York City’s underworld? 🐱 Play Blacksad: Under the Skin now 📬 S
Hello Detectives,
Good news for all the Chinese-speaking detectives out there!
Blacksad: Under the Skin is now playable in Simplified Chinese
Ready to dive back into this dark corruption scandal in the heart of New York City’s underworld?
Hello Detectives, A new update has been released for Blacksad: Under the Skin ! Here is what it brings: Updated Unity engine version (together with consoles) Graphical improvements: Fixed the shadow artifacts Increased the shadow quality Updated splash screen to use new image Fix
Hello Detectives,
A new update has been released for Blacksad: Under the Skin!
Here is what it brings:
Updated Unity engine version (together with consoles)
Graphical improvements:
Fixed the shadow artifacts
Increased the shadow quality
Updated splash screen to use new image
Fixed a bunch of broken shaders
Fixed Infinite loading when changing focus during loading screens
Hello Explorers, Get in your hydraloft in search of the mythical Great White Birds when Amerzone - The Explorer’s Legacy lands in 2024! Set off on a quest for the Great White Birds in a mysterious land full of secrets Answer the call of exploration as you travel to Amerzone , a f
Hello Explorers,
Get in your hydraloft in search of the mythical Great White Birds when Amerzone - The Explorer’s Legacy lands in 2024!
Set off on a quest for the Great White Birds in a mysterious land full of secrets
Answer the call of exploration as you travel to Amerzone, a forgotten Latin American country, to fulfill the last wishes of a late explorer.
Investigate the ruins of this secretive land reclaimed by nature, meet intriguing characters with deep backstories and solve intricate puzzles to uncover the truth.
Will you unveil the mysteries surrounding the mythical Great White Birds?
🌱 A remake of the classic Benoît Sokal game (Re)Discover the work of Benoît Sokal before the Syberia saga
🧭 An ode to exploration Discover a land shaped by mysteries and secrets as you travel through breathtaking environments
🕊️ Face many challenges in search of the truth Find clues and solve intricate puzzles to carry your quest for the Great White Birds in a faithful yet enriched story
🤝 Meet fascinating characters Learn about people with deep backstories, and listen to their stories to mend the errors of the past
With Halloween soon to be upon us, GOG is holding a Halloween sale , with discounts on more than 3,000 games. And as it often does, it's also giving one away. This time around it's Blacksad: Under the Skin , the tale of a private detective named John Blacksad who's investigating
With Halloween soon to be upon us, GOG is holding a Halloween sale, with discounts on more than 3,000 games. And as it often does, it's also giving one away. This time around it's Blacksad: Under the Skin, the tale of a private detective named John Blacksad who's investigating a dark corruption scandal at the heart of 1950s New York City... Read more.
Did you like Blacksad: Under The Skin? If you'd like to discover more about John Blacksad, you can get started here, with the 1st book of the acclaimed spanish comic! Many other great comics to discover within this awesome bundle! Grab your comics here :
Did you like Blacksad: Under The Skin? If you'd like to discover more about John Blacksad, you can get started here, with the 1st book of the acclaimed spanish comic!
Many other great comics to discover within this awesome bundle!
This year, the National Animation Film Festival will be 100% online, from April 7 to 20, 2021! During this period, Blacksad will be available at discounted price on Steam Go to the festival website to see its full content : FESTIVAL WEBSITE This 27th edition will exceptionally t
This year, the National Animation Film Festival will be 100% online, from April 7 to 20, 2021!
During this period, Blacksad will be available at discounted price on Steam
Go to the festival website to see its full content : FESTIVAL WEBSITE
This 27th edition will exceptionally take place over two weeks to allow you to discover the creativity and diversity of contemporary French production thanks to an abundant program:
▶ nearly 150 animated works accessible everywhere in France ▶ exclusive meetings available internationally
Thought as a real digital event, the team wished to keep a programming schedule with different meetings and content accessible every day on the dedicated platform of the Festival, developed in partnership with CinéCapsule. Always with the aim of keeping a festive and eventful spirit!
Bonus content will also be offered on our social networks and two panorama programs (DIY films and homemade films) will be available for free for a month on the website of our partner, KuB.
Benoit Sokal and Microids are proud to announce today the release of the prologue for the new Syberia adventure, free on Steam 👌 🎮 By letting players access the game ahead of its full release, Benoit Sokal and Microids wish to welcome the fans back into the unique and dreamlike
Benoit Sokal and Microids are proud to announce today the release of the prologue for the new Syberia adventure, free on Steam 👌
🎮 By letting players access the game ahead of its full release, Benoit Sokal and Microids wish to welcome the fans back into the unique and dreamlike world of Kate Walker’s first adventures. Going back to its roots, Syberia will immerse players in a brand-new story filled with travels, plot twists and emotional situations...
🎮 The game soundtrack is written by the returning composer Inon Zur (Fallout 4, Dragon Age, Prince of Persia), already responsible for the music of Syberia 2 and Syberia 3. The fans will be greeted by a mesmerizing and unforgettable score, paired perfectly with the fascinating universe created by Benoit Sokal.
Hello everyone, A new patch for Blacksad has already been released, here is what has been done: • Fixes freezes when Blacksad walks or when players perform actions • The game can now be launched properly if the Xbox One Gamepad is already used • Fixes a crash that would happen wh
Hello everyone,
A new patch for Blacksad has already been released, here is what has been done:
• Fixes freezes when Blacksad walks or when players perform actions • The game can now be launched properly if the Xbox One Gamepad is already used • Fixes a crash that would happen when players use the Deduction Menu during a loading screen • Pressing buttons during loading screens don’t create bugs anymore • Fixes a bug during the loading screen in the car while players are pressing RB multiple times • Fixes the bug encountered when players open the Menu while Blacksad is on the phone • Fixes a bug that would happen when John refuses to take Sonia’s case • The catsense is now properly displayed when players try to shoot the sniper
Looking forward to hearing your feedback on this update!
Official Blacksad OST You may or may not have noticed, but soundtracks on Steam are going under some nice changes that makes buying and listening to game soundtracks easier. So it is the perfect opportunity to discover or re-discover the acclaimed beautiful jazzy music that deepe
Official Blacksad OST
You may or may not have noticed, but soundtracks on Steam are going under some nice changes that makes buying and listening to game soundtracks easier.
So it is the perfect opportunity to discover or re-discover the acclaimed beautiful jazzy music that deepens the noir tone of the game!
From light tunes to intense musical outburst, journey along John Blacksad in the streets of 1950's New York.
It is a raining night, and the town is dangerous, even for a hard-boiled detective.
22 tracks from Juan Miguel Martin + an amazing main theme by Inon Zur, composer for Fallout, Dragon Age, Prince of Persia, and Syberia!
Developer: Pendulo Studios, YS Interactive Publisher: Microids Release: Out now On: Windows, MacOS From: Steam Price: 35/$40/ 40 For reasons unclear to me, detective work seems to be a popular choice for enterprising animals keen to enter the gig economy. Indeed, creatures of all
For reasons unclear to me, detective work seems to be a popular choice for enterprising animals keen to enter the gig economy. Indeed, creatures of all kinds have been sleuthing it up recently – just this year we had the pleasure of meeting a Goat Detective, a Frog Detective and a Raccoon Detective, and we heard about the arrival of the Chicken Police. And now it’s time for Blacksad, a gruff detective cat who’s hopped from his noir comic series to the PC screen, courtesy of Runaway developers Pendulo Studios.
This should have been a brilliant game. In fact, it is—in bursts. How could it not be? You play as a cat called John who looks like Batman wearing Columbo’s coat; a cat with his own detective agency. This is a noir thriller set in 1950s New York that dutifully hits the notes you’
This should have been a brilliant game. In fact, it is—in bursts. How could it not be? You play as a cat called John who looks like Batman wearing Columbo’s coat; a cat with his own detective agency. This is a noir thriller set in 1950s New York that dutifully hits the notes you’d expect. In the biggest 'however' you’ll come across all year though, thanks to the comics this draws from, every single character is an anthropomorphised animal.
I can not stress enough that Blacksad: Under The Skin is essentially a 9-hour fever dream. This fact is key to almost every compliment and criticism that can be hurled at the game. The story opens with a rhino angry that you’ve got photos of him cheating on his wife with a fox, for goodness sake!
It’s worth mentioning, too, that the animals haven’t just been given human shapes and clothing. Many of them are also somewhat sexualised. I’ve interviewed an unnervingly buff Rottweiler lying in a hospital bed, desperately tried to ignore the cleavage of a buxom cheetah secretary despite the game’s best efforts, and had to process the sight of a sexy cat in a short tennis skirt. I feel like I have, as L.V. once sang, been spending most my life living in the furry’s paradise.
Desperately claw away at the surreal surface, and you’ll eventually find an adventure game that combines a Telltale-style dialogue system with something akin to the Mind Palace in the Sherlock games. Although you’ll have to do plenty of environment combing for documents and other clues, there’s no inventory. Instead, you’ll be told when you’ve gathered enough info to make at least one new deduction. You then adopt a thoughtful pose, and have a think about which two (or more) facts or theories to combine in order to reach a new conclusion. This is rarely challenging, but that helps keep things going.
It’s possible to die by making a bad decision, but the game generously allows you to reload almost immediately to rectify your mistake. You’ll occasionally be called upon to use your cat senses to pick up on small details, something that is so straightforward as to be arguably superfluous. Blacksad is, generally, a smooth experience. When I get stuck, it’s because I’ve missed a vital but poorly placed item, or—on one occasion memorable for all the wrong reasons—because of an awkward and unexplained QTE.
Things start off so well. The unfaithful rhino charges into your office, there’s a bit of action, and some interesting choices to make. The client that drives the story then makes an appearance, the daughter of a leopard(?) who apparently died by suicide in the boxing gym that he ran. Needless to say, things aren’t that simple, but the experience begins to drag just as you start to pick up on suspicious details. There’s a lot of trudging around the same few locations, and talking to the same few people. The story picks up again afterwards, but this stop-start pace continues throughout.
The two obvious options with this game were to either play everything for laughs, or double down on the noir aspect, and make a bravely gritty animal crime thriller. Pendulo Studios appears to have chosen the latter, but it doesn’t quite work. I get a glimpse of what could have been when I first meet tennis star Helen Moore, whose withering sarcasm constantly deflects my attempts to probe for information. The norm however is a story that would be much less interesting with humans instead of animals, and patches of painfully exposition-tastic dialogue.
While the use of sexy animals makes some flaws invisible or easy to forgive, it often leads to unintentional hilarity, which can weaken the experience. I laugh out loud at the sight of a cat driving a forklift, especially because the cat is me. More damningly however, the line "Do you know what it’s like to kill a friend for the sake of the mission?" doesn’t have the emotional impact the writers think it does when it’s spoken by a horse.
Somewhat unwisely, the script now and again dips its toes into the murky waters of racial issues (one of your first discoveries is misspelled racist graffiti). Trying to process an issue as powerful and important as racism through a fantastical lens is difficult even for the most gifted of writers. Here, at best, it falls flat—but thankfully doesn’t play a significant part in the story.
Blacksad’s enjoyable (both intentionally and unintentionally), and I must confess to being devastated at not reacting quickly enough to save the life of a character at the very end of the game. Still, it’s not the game it could—and should—have been.
Hello everyone, We would like to share with you a 25 minutes gameplay video of Blacksad: Under the skin. English, French or Spanish are available for this gameplay video, see the different links below: English Gameplay Video French Gameplay Video Spanish Gameplay Video Enjoy
Hello everyone,
We would like to share with you a 25 minutes gameplay video of Blacksad: Under the skin.
English, French or Spanish are available for this gameplay video, see the different links below:
Discover the second part of Blacksad: Under the Skin making-of You’ll learn about the teams’ collaboration with Inon Zur, the famous composer of the game main theme. #BlacksadUndertheSkin And also, We're now on Discord! Join us 👉
Blacksad is a series of Spanish-created, French-published graphic novels about a cat in a long coat who solves mysteries. Are you not already sold ? I read the first volume earlier this year, since they've been published in lovely English hardcovers by Dark Horse Comics. They're
Blacksad is a series of Spanish-created, French-published graphic novels about a cat in a long coat who solves mysteries. Are you not already sold? I read the first volume earlier this year, since they've been published in lovely English hardcovers by Dark Horse Comics. They're simple and compelling noir mysteries set in a world of humanoid animals, and if you can forgive a few eyebrow-raising female character designs, I give them a strong recommendation.
This game is impressively faithful to the tone of those books, and it'll probably remind most people of Telltale's The Wolf Among Us, given that you're solving a mystery while interacting with talking animals. But while Blacksad: Under the Skin uses a similar cinematic presentation to recent Telltale games, it also contains the kind of puzzles you'd expect from a traditional point-and-click adventure, for better or worse. You play as John Blacksad (yes, the cat is called John) in this strange animal-dominated version of '50s New York, and you're trying to solve the mystery of why a boxing ring owner has (seemingly) killed himself, and why in a related matter, a boxer has gone missing right before a fight.
The demo I played started in John's office as a rhino entered spoiling for a scrap. John got hold of photos of the rhino cheating on his wife (what a sentence this is turning out to be), and he's not happy about it. The ensuing brawl plays out in the form of a QTE, which is fairly rote, but the action is fun: headbutting a rhino in close quarters combat when you're a cat probably isn't a good idea. I really should've punched him instead.
After John avoids taking a bullet and the fight ends, I can choose how to resolve the scuffle. I decided to tell the rhino I wouldn't reveal the cheating to his wife—though I turned down his offer of hush money. Later, though, I picked up the phone and told his wife about the cheating anyway. It's not a perfect sequence of choices when it comes to either money making or telling the truth, but I wanted to see how the game would react to a conflicting choice like that.
Sure enough, in a later scene the rhino would confront Blacksad about his subsequent change of heart, which is a cool way of demonstrating consequences for small decisions. Some repeated lip sync issues aside, the characters are nicely animated, and John's quietly gruff voice actor is a spot-on choice for a surly, troubled and charming cat who's always trying to crack a case.
A few different bars measure how you've shaped Blacksad with your choices. I don't get much of a sense of how much they affect the overall story, but one bar tells you how profitable the case in question will be, and another tells you how 'hardboiled' you are or aren't as a detective, which I assume tracks how empathetic you are towards the characters you encounter. When it comes to profitability of the case, the game throws up instances where you can choose how to approach the subject of money: you can be upfront about the price of John's services, or take a softer angle.
The fundamental novelty factor of a cat solving mysteries is powerful
Outside of the choices in conversations, the game feels more like a traditional adventure game, as you explore small-ish environments looking for clues to advance the story. You can then piece these clues together in a menu screen that represents Blacksad's detective brain at work (see above). I didn't do a whole lot of that, though, because despite finding plenty of interesting things around the environments in this demo, none of them quite added up to a solution that pushed the game forward. Instead, there was a lot of retreading the same places looking for clues I might've missed.
The pace seems fairly languid. I actually wouldn't mind Blacksad being a bit firmer in telegraphing what you're supposed to do next, since I'm more interested in the dialogue choice and story side of the game, rather than listlessly picking through environments. Blacksad can also uncover clues in the middle of conversations, hovering the cursor details on characters to figure out more about them, like who they work for.
The developers have just delayed the game to November from its original September date, and I think that was a wise move. Blacksad: Under the Skin could use a bit of polish. As well as clues being a bit easier to find, I wouldn't mind some clearer QTE prompts for certain actions, and better lip-syncing in cutscenes. The offbeat charm of the graphic novels feels like it's carried over, though, and there's a lot to enjoy about the characters and story. I just hope the more traditional point-and-click elements add up to an exciting detective game—this demo didn't convince me of that.
Anyway, show me another game in 2019 that'll feature this scenario:
We would like to inform you that we delay the release of Blacksad: Under the Skin. The new release date is: November 5, 2019. The team will use this extra time to polish the game with only one goal in mind: deliver the best possible experience to our players.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTUH0dUbX4
We would like to inform you that we delay the release of Blacksad: Under the Skin.
The new release date is: November 5, 2019.
The team will use this extra time to polish the game with only one goal in mind: deliver the best possible experience to our players.
