BLACKWOOD
BLACKWOOD releases on September 16, 2026, for PC. Developed by AttritoM7 Productions and published by IZilla Games and AttritoM7 Productions, this cinematic third-person action thriller follows a New York DVD-store owner living a violent second life as a contract killer in 2012. Daytime revolves around stocking shelves, selling DVDs, setting prices, decorating the store, changing outfits, and maintaining an ordinary appearance, while nighttime missions shift into responsive gunfights, grounded melee combat, environmental takedowns, dives, rolls, slides, and increasingly dangerous connections to the city’s criminal underworld.
DLC
No DLC announced at this time.
Editions – what’s included
No special editions confirmed at this time.
Review
BLACKWOOD’s most interesting idea is not simply that its protagonist owns a DVD store. The shop acts as the quiet half of a double life, giving the player something ordinary to maintain between increasingly violent contracts.
Store management includes stocking inventory, organizing shelves, setting prices, and serving customers. Players can handle those systems directly or allow some of the work to operate automatically, making the shop either a significant management activity or a lighter source of income.
Night missions are far more physical. Movement includes slides, rolls, and dives, while gunplay is designed to remain quick at close range. Contextual takedowns let the protagonist use nearby objects and environments during executions, giving fights more variety than repeating one melee animation.
The contrast should also help pacing. Returning to the apartment and store after a violent mission creates space for clothing changes, decorating, purchases, and story interactions before the next descent into New York’s criminal world.
Presentation is strongly cinematic, but the game still needs enough control to keep its action from feeling overly scripted. The shop is another potential pressure point. If profits or upgrades have little effect on later missions, half of the central concept could become optional busywork.
PC specifications are also still effectively unannounced, with Steam currently providing no usable hardware details.
Verdict: A stylish action thriller whose combination of brutal contract work and mundane DVD-store management gives its familiar assassin premise a much stronger identity.
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Supported Languages
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