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I Saw Black Clouds
Developer Ghost Dog Films
After the unexpected death of a close friend, Kristina returns to her hometown looking for answers, only to unearth a string of dark secrets. I Saw Black Clouds is an interactive psychological thriller with supernatural elements and branching storylines. From the Steam store page
207 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 8, 2026 · last updated Oct 10, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
62
Fresh
114 positive · 70 negative
95% range 55–69%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 114 | 70 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 2 | 0 | 21 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
152 of 242 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
62% recommend · 118 yes, 71 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 189 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (410 of 673 positive).
Some players praise the story as deep and complex, with strong replayability. [1][2][3] Others criticize the choices as meaningless and the plot as disjointed. [4][5][6] Many find the acting and production quality decent but inconsistent. [7][8][9]
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*This is a positive negative review* Absolutely terrible from start to finish. The acting is horrendous, there is no choice it's all just an illusion of choice and the game plays multiple options anyways. Most of the "film" is this random woman looking around in strange places. The entire experience looks like it was made on an I-phone 3. The audio design may as well have been done by a 4 year old. The plot was …
- [6]
I've played a lot of FMV's and I have to say this is in the bottom third... The acting was great, mind you, and the story was decent. The part that really killed this for me, mostly, was that fact that most of the choices really didn't effect what happened. Often the game had a route it was going to take you no matter what option you selected. You say no, person demands you do it any way. You select no and the …
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*Plot and story free spoiler reviews* I thought this was their best story by far. If you love mysteries then I highly recommend this, I loved it. It is mature and although not frequent there are a couple of disturbing scenes. It’s a pure pick dialogue type FMV not a ‘her story’ find data chunks type or a ‘contradiction’ interact with environment kind of game. Like the ‘late shift’ this has 2 main story branches each …
- [7]
I'm not sure why this game is getting such mixed reviews. I found the subject matter intriguing and the movie elements are well-acted and produced. The experience lasts about 90 minutes if you don't skip any scenes. There are two main paths to take each with multiple variations on how they can play out. I think you have to play this at least twice to experience both paths and absorb the full context of the story …
- [8]
A good, yet inconsistent FMV game that will entertain you for 2-3 hours (5h if you go for all achievements). It's worth the buck if purchased on sale (like 80% of or more). Allow me to define inconsistent: A few shots are amazing (spiral staircases, coat at forest edge..), but some are mediocre! Most of the acting is good, but some is amateurish. Having different parallel storylines is great for replayability but …
Summarised from 34 of the 213 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
62% of the 189 Steam reviewers we collected recommend I Saw Black Clouds. The complaint that keeps coming up: choices often feel meaningless or ignored. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
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60 of 207 · most liked first*This is a positive negative review* Absolutely terrible from start to finish. The acting is horrendous, there is no choice it's all just an illusion of choice and the game plays multiple options anyways. Most of the "film" is this random woman looking around in strange places. The entire experience looks like it was made on an I-phone 3. The audio design may as well have been done by a 4 year old. The plot was confusing from the moment it started until the moment it sort of I guess ended? Not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →*Plot and story free spoiler reviews* I thought this was their best story by far. If you love mysteries then I highly recommend this, I loved it. It is mature and although not frequent there are a couple of disturbing scenes. It’s a pure pick dialogue type FMV not a ‘her story’ find data chunks type or a ‘contradiction’ interact with environment kind of game. Like the ‘late shift’ this has 2 main story branches each with different settings and characters. You can skip seen scenes after the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tl;dr took a while, but in the end it was a okay-ish, genre bending FMV experience Overview After the sudden death of a close friend, you return to your hometown to attend the funeral. What initially feels like a short and uncomfortable visit quickly spirals into something much stranger. As you dig deeper into the past, old relationships, buried secrets, and unsettling events begin to surface. I Saw Black Clouds is a FMV narrative adventure that blends psychological drama, mystery, and light…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This amazing FMV is full of symbolism , much like a very good Ingmar Bergman film. However this fact will just whoosh over most plebeian players heads, as they only seem fixated on whether the main character is, " hot", ..such is our culture today. So I'm not going to throw any pearls down, and simply say that I enjoyed the depths , the allusions and the complicated story. One of the best FMV's I've experienced and I look forward to many more from this talented studio...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →100% Achievement Review - I love this game studio, with their movie quality FMV games. That being said, this one was just weird and confusing. I didn't enjoy this one as much as other FMV games from this studio. General plot... well, there isn't one because the base plot can change depending on decisions you make. One path its a horror ghost story, the other path its a horror serial killer story. Either way it ends up in the same place... Unless you send your character full off the path…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I agree with most of the other negative reviews. This is simply a low-budget horror film that occasionally pretends to ask you what you want to happen next, then summarily ignores you, and tells the story it was going to tell anyway. The "choices" were essentially meaningless. I would rather have just watched this on regular TV without any pretense of interactivity. The story was generally muddled and confusing. The holes in the dialogue and sloppy editing served to underscore how much your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🧧 NEGATIVE STEAM REVIEW – Malaysian Aunty Style (Mangles Edition) 🧧 Game: I Saw Black Clouds Aiyo… I tell you ah… this game right… I buy thinking horror thriller, end up become “drama auntie WhatsApp forward story but budget RM3”. First thing first, this one is those FMV game, meaning you sit there press button like ordering nasi lemak but story go whichever direction it feels like. Problem is ah — you think you making choice, actually game say “ok noted” then proceed to ignore you like your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent addition to the FMV family of games. The publisher definitely has hit and misses. This one is pretty good and has a nice suspenseful thriller vibe to it, not so much horror. Very dark in nature and doesn't have the campy humor some of teh other FMV's have. It's not of a highest of quality in story telling, but I think that's what I also expect and enjoy from Wales Interactive. I enjoyed the plot and the game also throws you a massive plot point about midway through that will piece…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately I can't recommend this game. The plot is somewhat weak to me and disjointed at times. Technically the game works well no major glitches, however the break between decisions takes you a bit ouf the experience as the ambient sound stops and changes volume at times. This is a pass for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this when it was on sale after reading Heleanthia’s review on here. This is my first FMV and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of interacting with a psychological thriller movie and being able to make choices along the way that totally changed the outcome the more that I played it. There are about 600 video clips and so far I’ve played through the game twice and only seen 355 scenes… so lots of replayability. What I liked most was that the narrative was quite deep and complex and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played a lot of FMV's and I have to say this is in the bottom third... The acting was great, mind you, and the story was decent. The part that really killed this for me, mostly, was that fact that most of the choices really didn't effect what happened. Often the game had a route it was going to take you no matter what option you selected. You say no, person demands you do it any way. You select no and the character says maybe then agrees... You say go left or straight and both go to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“wow” effect has been achieved + very beautiful actress !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All of the negative reviews are because they got the "Paranormal" ending and didn't bother to replay for the rest of the story. This is a well produced FMV! If you're on the fence, I say give it a chance. This is one of the best horror FMV out there.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All Wales Interactive games suffer from the same problems, which for some reason they never improve on: -Few choices actually matter for the story -Choices feel arbitrary ie. go left or go right This one also suffers from: -Lots of bad cutting, making the game feel disjointed/nonsensical and difficult to watch -Oftentimes you are asked to make a choice before the video has progressed to the branching point, ie. Pick left door or right door, but the video hasn't even shown the different doors…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like FMV's. My experience with this one is pretty terrible. The acting is fine enough but the choices seem inconsequential, the story seems disjointed. By the end of my play through I waslike what's this all about then? I was excited hoping that this was going to be a good one. I wanted to 100% this game and maybe I would with a walk through but I don't know if I can be bothered. Meh.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This one was a miss. Usually at the very least these games are good for messing around and making wacky decisions to see how the plot unfolds (and this game does have that to an extent). But this one is just too full of nonsense “decisions” that obviously exist to give the illusion of choice. The whole thing feels rather amateur from a directorial perspective: the actors seem capable of delivering, but a lot of their scenes fall flat and you can tell it was a “we only have one take for this”…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cringe and stupid in every aspect that you could imagine
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not sure why this game is getting such mixed reviews. I found the subject matter intriguing and the movie elements are well-acted and produced. The experience lasts about 90 minutes if you don't skip any scenes. There are two main paths to take each with multiple variations on how they can play out. I think you have to play this at least twice to experience both paths and absorb the full context of the story it's telling. This isn't a "fun" game; I wouldn't use this as a party game or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's incredibly dull and boring. The story is all over the place and the only good thing about this is the main actress. It's also really short under 2 hours of gameplay. Even for the current price I would not recommend this as it's just very bland and simply not worth your time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’m a fan of FMV’s… this one was sadly very poorly made. Acting doesn’t line up with your text selections. For example i picked “amused,” and my character blankly looked at the person instead. Another time I picked “Lie,” and the character just went “er…yeah…” and it picked up where just telling the truth ended up. The scenes are edited very janky. For example it shows you two turns down hallways and you choose. It doesn’t show the character walk to the door and down the hallway, suddenly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →He's also worked on the games I Saw Black Clouds and Spidermall, and in audios like The Light Of September, The Minister Of Chance, Vault-Tec Rises, Authority Over Accustomed, and Little Sanctuary Of Horrors. He won best actor at the NYC Indie Film award and was a BBC Norman Beaton Semi Finalist.
neutral · AI labelView post →Choices dont matter at all. No matter which choice you pick the character will do as the plot wants it to do. Also boring story and poor acting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recommend going into this game as clueless as possible about the story. It's well done - I don't get how this game has such mixed reviews, it's totally solid.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The plot is absolute disjointed nonsense, the cause and effect of your choices is obscure, the dialogue is inane and delivered over hours of joyless monotone, editing is nonexistent, basic direction like blocking and sight-lines are all over the place, the cinematography and camerawork is basic, and the subject matter (rape, suicide and mental illness!) is handled about as sensitively as a goose stuck in a toilet. Wales Interactive has done much, much better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad. Not bad at all. I like the darker and more realistic version of events better. Looked like a good psychological thriller to me
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started out very promising. The camera work was very professional and the initial hook was compelling. I REALLY wanted to like this game and was very excited by what they started offering me. But it went down hill after the first hour or so. So many of the options were fake (Comfort or reassure a character, essentially the same thing being presented as two different options). The end was uninspired and drawn out in both endings, repeating an out of left field chain of events that undermine the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holy smokes this game is fun! I love the immersion of fmv games like this. This game takes you to a lot of locations and introduces you to a bunch of odd characters. If you love horror movies and mysteries you should get a kick out of it. I think the people criticizing this game are just nit picking. For me it's a definite thumbs up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played it twice, and it the second time it was whole new movie with new premise. Different villains, people who were good turned bad, characters I'd never seen. I was kind of taken back by it. I'd definitely recommend this!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am being completely serious when I say this is genuinely one of the top 3 worst games I have ever played in my life. And no, I do not mean “so bad it’s funny.” I mean the kind of bad where you finish it and actually feel irritated that you wasted hours of your life hoping it would eventually become worth it. Perhaps I am simply too stupid to understand the incredible psychological depth and artistic brilliance this game supposedly has, because from my perspective, I Saw Black Clouds is an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I See Black Clouds is a bleak FMV psychological thriller with appropriate trigger warnings and an initially intriguing setup, but it never develops into anything coherent or satisfying. While each playthrough offers 100+ choices and clearly branches into different story paths, it’s frustratingly unclear which decisions are consequential—or why—despite visible relationship and ability trackers that are never explained. The first quarter shows promise, with some genuinely creepy locations and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not atrocious, but the negatives FAR outweigh the positives in this FMV game by Wales Interactive (who are somewhat entrenched in the genre). Positives: -General plot/writing- It's interesting and the two divergent paths (no spoilers!) are sufficiently different to offer some good playthrough value. The writing isn't awful, but it's not going to win a BAFTA anytime soon, and it is largely undone by the totally uneven quality of the actors/actresses.... -Some of the Acting- Some of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good, yet inconsistent FMV game that will entertain you for 2-3 hours (5h if you go for all achievements). It's worth the buck if purchased on sale (like 80% of or more). Allow me to define inconsistent: A few shots are amazing (spiral staircases, coat at forest edge..), but some are mediocre! Most of the acting is good, but some is amateurish. Having different parallel storylines is great for replayability but inevitably creates bad fittings and strange cutscenes. Most of the storytelling…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very bad. Starting from the strange cuts of video and music and ending with the actors acting and plot. Disappointed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I went into this game expecting nothing (just playing through every Wales Interactive FMV), and this one is actually one of the better games despite the mixed review. Will definitely recommend this game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played Night shift and The complex from Wales Interactive before and liked both. This one is a very dark and depressive game. I played all endings to see if there is any variety at all, but there is one main ending and no matter what you do - it's bad, I can't change it, I can't save anyone. I was excited about the ghost story before it turned into something else... I'd love it to continue in the same direction and have an ending featuring this. Also this woman psychiatrist looked like some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got lost in the story as it started out one thing and then something completely different. Maybe it is the choices I selected but I felt like I was playing the beginning of one game and then some how jumped into a completely different story. It didnt seem to relate to each other. I may have to play this again to see if other choices will change my mind but that ending just everything changed too much they just didn't connect.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Choice have less substance than a fart in a thunderstorm. Avoid at all cost.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This FMV game has relatively competent acting and neat locations. The scenes, plot elements individually make sense - all of them are fine. Thumbs up for that. Perhaps a minus the god awful day-for-night stuff... Caveats: Unfortunately the story is very incoherent. Actually there is no story to enjoy here. When you get to the ending you've seen at least three major plot lines that each would have made for a great story if the writers had committed to any of them. They've chosen to do a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Fun Short Adventure Game in interesting Urbex Locations. I don't understand the negative reviews. Haters gonna hate, that's for sure. For me, it was a thrilling excursion into an abandoned psychiatric clinic. The game takes you to some old-fashioned British Victorian houses—their basements and attics included. The locations are unique and captivating. The female lead is impressive and plays her role convincingly. Her emotions are clearly readable from the expression and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is disjointed and choices do not matter at all. game is on rails..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ok. to start off: you need to actually use your brain when playing this game if you want to understand the plot. but its actually really good and worth 100%ing second, my critiques (for anyone thinking to buy the game that dont want spoilers): there are some janky moments where the scenes dont line up audio/lighting wise, as well as sometimes you select an option and the character just .... doesnt say anything but the scene progresses on as if she did. either make her always say the dialogue…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Video Games: I Saw Black Clouds, Spidermall. Untitled FMV. Audio: The Light Of September. The Minister Of Chance. Vault-Tec Rises. Authority Over Accustomed. Little Sanctuary Of Horrors. I won best actor at the NYC Indie Film award and was also a BBC Norman Beaton Semi Finalist.
neutral · AI labelView post →Too Many Ideas, Not Enough Focus I Saw Black Clouds feels like it’s trying to tell three different stories at once — a psychological drama, a ghost horror, and a crime mystery — and instead of weaving them together well, it just throws them all in a blender. The result is a confusing mess. Just when you think you’re following one thread, the game slams in another twist or genre shift that doesn’t fit. It’s not layered, it’s jumbled. By the time the credits rolled, I genuinely had no idea what…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My grade would be average. Buy it on sale if you want a creepy FMV mystery. The sale price was $2.54. Pro: Could skip scenes that you already watched. The settings also had a pause button for the choices. Side note: my favorite games by Wales Interactive are Late Shift, Five Dates, and Ten Dates.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Since there is no "meh" option, I'm forced to go down. Story is ok at best. It's like a straight to dvds attempt at a low budget Black Mirror. A made for tv scary movie to play on ABC. I did receive this in a Bundle
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Poorly directed, filled with inconsistensies and ugly shot (loads of blown out skies for example). Taking on a FMV game with multiple choiches and paths is tough, and this entry was not up to the task. And even though I enjoyed it's sort of odd campiness, I do admit it's more boring than intruiging, kinda like that Australian tv series Prisoner. Like, nothing really happens, and it's slow, but then you end up somewhere somehow. I finished it for the achievements. I did however appreciate…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To me it is a good fmv game although some scene is boring and i fall asleep twice during my playtime. 4 endings and 5 hours playtime for all achievement. Overall i like the story with psychology concept and mixed with superstitious part. Acting is acceptable and i like the twist of the story. There is a lot of bad review for this game but i think it deserve more good review. Thanks developer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mixed on this one really. I like this sort of thing, but this is not the best. The acting is pretty diabolical at times. I also came away from it a little uncertain what the story was?!!? Replay-ability is high, because there are some really significant changes depending on your choices. I'm going to recommend it, but only if it's in a sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I purchased a few FMV's for the library and finally got around to this one. The acting was decent, but very typical of the dry British style, except for the vet who was totally overacting. The writing was some kind of M. Night Shyamalan stuff and I'm not talking about seeing Dead People either, but rather every other movie where he takes a decent and intriguing, but shocking plot and then tanks the end with something that makes no sense whatsoever. This reminds me of someone opting to scrub the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Watch out! Danger lurks everywhere, at every step. -> You should be cautious and extremely careful in your answers. -> You have much to learn. There are many mysteries to be solved. Don't think there's much to enjoy. -> A thriller that keeps you in suspense the whole time. -> The acting helps to convey the anxieties, frustrations, and fears that the protagonist is experiencing. 100\10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, I liked it. Good acting and story, a lot of choices. The next two notes are for most (this included) of their FMV games: Video needs higher bitrate/better encode. The audio volume is too different low/high in different scenes. I understand that this is intended but it's overdone.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I couldn't make it through this one. Mental health therapy is a prominent part of this game, and the way it is portrayed is extremely regressive. All of the psychiatrists are stereotypical Freudian psychoanalysts. Psycho analysis has been by CBT a looooong time ago. I'm sorry, I can't handle to sheer amount of cringe it takes to get through those scenes. It's like watching a chimpanzee try to perform surgery, not pretty. Looking at the game stats, it looks like most people stopped watching…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's very hard... The game is full of hard moments and events that are hard to watch... Mixed feelings give this FMV Yes, it's certainly interesting and unpredictable...But this storyline...This heaviness of the life story...I got into it. So. - It's a detective. - Lots of action. - Variety of twists and turns. - High level acting. - Very beautiful heroines. This could have been a 9\10 from me or so But I can't recommend it to everyone. It's not right for everyone...It's very heavy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Requested a refund. That tells you about all you need to know about this game. Honestly, it had potential. The acting was decent, and the filming was okay. But the choices didn't matter and it forced you to do things even though you picked the no option, the music cut off at weird moments, the story was a bit choppy, and you didn't really connect with any of the characters. The concept had potential...just poor execution.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think this game can do everything without you. Your choices doesn't matter. So just relax and watch this bad acting and weak plot.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the FMV games by publisher Wales Interactive. The acting is not AAA quality, but in every game I see the love and effort that the developers and actors made. I Saw Blackclouds was actually one of the better games, in my humble opinion. I thought this actress was very believable and the story was exciting and a eerie. If you like fast paced action games or a deep story, stay away from this. If you like decision making, see what the outcome would be and have a warm heart for the FMV genre,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not quite understanding the negative reviews. I thought this game was very entertaining! The acting was great, especially from Nicole O'Neil. Although I was a bit confused at a twist in the game, everything worked out and was explained perfectly. If you didn't like the first playthrough or find yourself in need of more answers, play again and again. (There are 4 different endings) . A lot of thought and effort goes into FMV games (and games in general) and i don't think people realize…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I Saw Black Clouds. FMV Friday time. I actually enjoyed Dead Reset so much it made me check which other @WalesInter I've still yet to play. It's always overcast in parts of the UK so these black clouds, I fear not. 🤣☁️ twitch.tv/OmegaG518 #twitch #Livestream #FMVFriday
positive · AI labelView post →On the one hand, “I Saw Black Clouds” looks like your run-of-the-mill interactive movie with a mysterious plot (just another drop in that endless sea). But the deeper you dig, the more you realize even the most obvious twists dodge you like a cat sidestepping a vacuum cleaner. in a nutshell: — no straight roads here — every choice is a lottery (and a stick with two ends) — that nagging feeling of unease sticks by your side right up to the final credits now picture this: youre crammed into a…
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