The Black Mirror is a third-person point-and-click horror adventure game developed in 2003 by Future Games, a Czech company. Its original name is Posel Smrti (Czech: Death's Messenger). The game features 150 locations and 5 hours of spoken dialogue. A sequel, Black Mirror II, was released in 2009.
Black Mirror is the name of the ancestral manor of the Gordon family located in England. Samuel Gordon is forced to return there after 12 years absence following the death of his grandfather, William Gordon. Despite occurring under mysterious circumstances, William's death is considered a suicide by everyone except for Samuel. Plagued by sudden nightmares and excruciating headaches, Samuel is determined to find the true causes of his grandfather's death. The exact cause of the death was the fall out of a window. Soon, strange and unexpected deaths occur. Samuel's investigation reveals that his grandfather has interests in the "world of darkness". The quests of the game lead to "Dark Mirror", a portal to an unknown world. Elements of black magic are obvious at the final chapter. The "Dark Mirror" is depicted as a book on a pentagram. Samuel must use five keys on each of the five corners. He also sheds his skin with a knife, in order to open the portal, pouring some blood on the book.
The game ends when Samuel finds out that he is the killer responsible of all deaths. Because of Gordon's curse he suffers ofSchizophrenia and is convinced that the only way to stop the curse is to kill himself. He commits suicide with words that he can undone his sins
System Requirements
Windows XP with 512 MB RAM (Windows Vista x32/x64 with 1GB/2 GB RAM recommended),
Intel Pentium IV or equal processor with 1.4 GHz (Intel Dual-Core or equal processor with 2.0 GHz recommended)
128 MB Graphics card like ATI Radeon 9800 or NVidia GeForce 6800 with Shader 2.0 (256 MB and Shader 3.0 recommended)
DirectX8 compatible sound card (9.0c recommended)
6 GB Hard drive space
DVD-Rom-drive
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