The Black Masses

Brilliant Game Studios / Oct 3, 2024 / Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG

Singleplayer
Multiplayer

windows
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The Black Masses is an open world first-person fantasy co-op RPG. You find yourself stranded on an island corrupted by a strange black substance. Its unsuspecting inhabitants, once a strong flourishing society, have been possessed into mindless creatures, bent on the destruction of life.

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What's new

More Bug Fixes - Version 1.0.1.1

2024-12-04

Here's a small update for you all! Some nasty bugs have been squashed. Hope everyone is having a fantastic week! - Fixed XP bug that caused rewards (exp and items) for all completed quests to repeat on load. - Removed stats that had no purpose from the stats menu. - Added more stat tracking to profile stats - Fixed infinite wall jumping in Konstanz Mine and other areas

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What players say

Mixed

57% positive, 914 reviews

Not recommended39 hrs played

Great idea, was fun to play when it was first released. I had high hopes for the game, but seems abandoned sadly.

18 found this helpful, 2026-05-29

Not recommended5 hrs played

I membah all the way back eight years ago when this game was first announced, and being kinda hype for it. I had forgotten about it by the time the game went into early access in 2020 and am just now checking it out in 2026. To say I'm disappointed is a massive understatement. There is literally nothing to do but run around collecting the same ten items from the same six buildings reused all over the map. The quests...

22 found this helpful, 2026-03-26

Not recommended8 hrs played

The game was never brought up to the standard it was initially sold as before they took a several year hiatus and returned for 1.0. The current price reflects the quality and content.

15 found this helpful, 2026-01-17

Not recommended12 hrs played

So I don't hate this game, but it sucks. It doesn't work, the game stutters even though it looks terrible, the textures are unfinished. The AI doesn't work, and the higher level enemies (All three of the enemies in the entire game) break on account of them just being made to go faster causing them to fly around off of slight inclines. It's literally unable to be finished on account of a major bug on the main quest....