Blackwood
By day, you run a DVD store in 2012 New York. By night, you’re a ruthless assassin. BLACKWOOD is a cinematic third-person shooter with grounded melee combat, brutal takedowns, responsive gunplay, and a double life to manage.
very high confidence
What people are saying
Updated nightlyBlackwood’s split reaction shows a game that’s half-baked but has some decent parts. The gunplay and brutal takedowns feel great, with a lot of people calling out a John Wick vibe that works. However, the melee combat is clunky, the driving feels terrible, and the enemy AI is universally panned as a total mess. Performance is a major sore point, with tons of players hitting crashes and frame drops on PC. The DVD store life-sim side gets a shrug, leaving this as a solid shooter trapped in a broken, frustrating package from Attrito M7.
Hype vs reality
Before release, then after.
From 96 pre-release reactions, locked on Sep 16, 2026. The audience score is built only from reactions since.
Sentiment split
Every qualifying reaction, weighted.
- Positive49%
- Mixed13%
- Negative38%
By aspect
What people scored, piece by piece.
How opinion moved
The Real Score, night by night.
Buzz
267 reactions over two weeks, counted by the day they were posted.
Where the signal came from
Volume and platform mix only.
Every figure on this page is analysis output from public posts and reviews.
Names and topics that came up
Mentions across all reactions, with the share that were positive. Anything mentioned fewer than twice never shapes the review.
