Black Plague is a first person horror game that comes with a fairly basic tutorial that teaches you how to move around, jump, and manipulate items. However, it is a first person shooter in so much as it uses the first person camera for what feels more like a horror adventure or survivalist game. This game could easily have been a classic adventure game but the first person element gives it more immersion. Instead of merely pixel hunting on the screen or putting items A and B together, Black Plague extends this immersive experience by utilizing gesture based mechanics. To open the vise grip, you have to move your mouse in a rotating direction. To move something from one place to another, you have to literally gesture it towards the area you want to move. Things don’t just snap on automatically like other games. To wedge a door open, you have to literally pry it open with a mouse gesture.

In terms of graphics, Black Plague has a very dark and gritty feel to it. Everywhere you look, it’s dirty, dank and there is this film-like grain to all the graphics. I’m sure it was intentional artistic direction on the part of the developers. Dim lights and sound effects also help create tension and horror.