Dream of Corpse Lady
Cards, battle! Someone woke up the sleeping Corpse Lady... Perhaps, the world needs to pay a price for the awakening... In this game, you will play the role of the awakened Corpse Lady, try various strange construction combinations, discover powerful opponents, and then knock them all down!
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“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
Black Book is a card battler, turn-based tactics and female protagonist game
developed by Morteshka
and published by HypeTrain Digital.
Released on August 10th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 5 languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
It has received 5,308 reviews of which 4,936 were positive and 372 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.69€ on Eneba.
The Steam community has classified Black Book into these genres:
Card Battler
Turn-Based Tactics
Female Protagonist
Card Game
Turn-Based
Dungeon Crawler
Mythology
Roguelite
RPG
Strategy RPG
Roguelike
Choices Matter
Story Rich
Deckbuilding
Dark Fantasy
Strategy
3D
Open World
Fantasy
Turn-Based Combat
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Black Book:
| UI | Subtitle | Audio | |
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| English | |||
| Korean | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Russian | |||
| Japanese |
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 / AMD Radeon R9 280X
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 5 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: MacOS version 10.13.4 or 10.14.1 or 10.15.4 or newer
- Processor: Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: An OpenGL supported GPU
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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2026.08.10 I have never played a card game like this before. I decided to take a chance because it had story mode. I wanted to go through the game as if reading a book. After losing to a boss three times it asks if you would like to skip the battle as if you won. I read every little bit of this game and enjoyed learning about old wives tales or should I say Koldun's. I believe the game has three endings. It allows you to save at almost anytime, making it easy to go back and see all endings which appear after the credits. The story was fine, the folklore was outstanding, the artwork was good. If I was to rate this like a "choose your own adventure book" I would give it a B+. (this review is by someone who knows nothing of Slavic folklore)
Absolutely rules. You do have to treat it as kind of a mysterious game, since it's translated *and* it's deeply about the culture it's translated from, but if you have any kind of an interest in Russian folk traditions and Christianity and paganism and syncretism you're probably gonna want to buy in at full price. On the flipside, if you're Christian and not super comfy with the occult you may have an Extra Bad time here. Or you might be fine. It's a testament to how strong the writing and atmosphere are that I got some goosebumps, in a way I didn't from Faith. In Black Book you play as an apprentice witch whose lover was believed to have committed suicide, and so was denied a Christian burial, condemning them to hell. The only reasonable way to fish him out is by entering into a pact with the devil to crack some seals on an old book, and right away Black Book starts to show some nuance. It does use words like evil, but it's surprisingly slow to judge. Demons are compelled by their nature. People are driven by desires and by trauma. Witches are defined by their pacts with things. God is a set of rules that you can comply with, or suffer if you fail to. You can do evil witch stuff, which gets you money and power. You can do kind witch stuff, which makes the lives of others better. You can do godly stuff, which absolves your sins. You can treat demons kindly or attack them and the same is true of people. There's a lot of mechanical depth, even if the core battle system is a kind of wonky Slay The Spire, and the striking thing about Black Book is how much research is in it. This is a game that wants to teach, record, and preserve folk beliefs---and it is willing to do so in exhaustive detail. There's heaps of items, herbs, little interactions, journal entries, even a subsystem about picking dialog choices based on your understanding of certain traditions for more exp. There's an upgrade tree, which isn't actually that deep but there's a lot of it (take meaningless tasks for chorts, and then equipment capacity upgrades, and then take whatever you want, maybe splash in a level of cheating at poker.) Oh, yeah, there's a whole Russian card game that is badly explained but fun once you get the knack for it. It's kind of like War, but you can extend your combo and shove a million cards into the other guy's hand. Things being badly explained is kind of a throughline in Black Book. The translation isn't even super consistent, and it makes dialog choices feel kinda perilous sometimes. There's three girls and you're supposed to pick "the third from the left." Does that mean rightmost girl? Leftmost girl? She's also supposedly bloody but none of them are, so you click on one to see if there's more context and ope, guess you chose that one. On top of this, the clues for questions sometimes just do not exist. You'll get a journal entry that says "sometimes changelings replace babies with aspen logs" and the question you have is "how do you tell" and that's not in the entry lmao. However, the game has pretty generous difficulty settings and has a "skip this battle" option that does not penalize you and that the game's few puzzle fights would be genuinely unplayable without ("do exactly the right sequence of card drops" sucks already and it gets way way worse when it is not clear how *specifically* any given mechanic works.) I think in a game with less heart, I'd find these issues really annoying, but in Black Book they're easy to ignore because of how strong the rest of the vision is. I'll update as I play, but thus far it's been one of my favorite games this year, with a richness and earnestness that's hard to compete with.
Excellent (and surprisingly long) folklore deck builder with a unique setting, blending late 19th century Russian history with the rarely discussed Finno-Ugric culture and legacy in Russia, including the region Perm where the game is set. First and foremost, I have to applaud the game for the fantastic writing! The story is absolutely amazing and the game is packed with well-written characters, funny moments and spectacular twists and turns. The setting itself is one of the game’s best “characters”, presenting you with the impoverished, underdeveloped, superstitious and religious aspect of rural Russia before the revolution. This is already an intriguing setting, but when their entire belief system is then made manifest in the struggle between demons and witches, with a blend of old spirits and God all within the framework of the Christian church and its complex history with pagan traditions, you get a setting, and a story, that is unforgettable. Second, the art design is formidable. The free-roam and battle graphics are delightfully simple without being boring or indecipherable, but it is in the “stills”where you communicate with the various entities that the design really takes on a whole new life and you always wait in great excitement to see what spectacle the game will come up with next – it even has a few cut scenes that managed to spook me. Third, the deck-building aspect is fun (albeit you can quickly get to an unbeatable item-deck combination on normal difficulty) My only issue with the game could be the puzzles, which are sometimes too confusing, gives you too little information to solve them or have dialogue options which are too vague for you to successfully choose the right option (maybe this is not a problem if you play the game in its native Russian) Overall, I can highly recommend this game. I haven’t played anything like it before and I loved the experience.
Just finished this game today. I have been playing this game from time to time for over a year. to me, i am really conflict about this game. there are times i really wants to give up on it as it is so dull and boring to play, but there are also time i found it truly intriguing as it delve well into the genre of folklores. That is Black Book for you, a game as very distinguished merits and flaws. I played this game for 35 hours, try to read carefully into all the entries and dialogues. there are fascinating folklore stories are being conveyed in anecdotes like messages, the play through also reward players for reading them carefully with experience points, which to me is definitely a plus for a game like this one, it makes you feel your knowledge in the subject can matter in decisions. The overall narratives are well written, well voice acted, but a bit of dull. The Narration itself lack charismatic and very repetitive. It might have something to do with the game being too long, which I should touch on later in the flaws. The characters are relatively blend with few exceptions. But overall, they serve their purpose and made me feel they matters when I made my decisions in the game. The story itself is not ground breaking, but it has really captured the atmosphere of koldun’s crafts and it has a great depiction of hell, the twists in the end makes sense also make it more fated and heavy. Thus, overall, I enjoy the story quite a bit. However, one big flaw to me is this game is huge pacing issue. Each chapter are separated into several artificial sections, and can be very tedious to play through. The card game element itself is not very interesting either. As a big fun of card game, my deck went through very little change over the game except when unlocking the more powerful version of cards I already play. It hardly counts as deckbuilding to be honest. There are several chapters should be just condensed into one map instead of several. Because the players were just doing the same thing/quests, with different items, which add nothing new to the story itself. The pacing has been heavily butchered by those game design decisions. But overall, I manage to finished this game, and I don’t regrate my decision. I would recommend it to anyone who interested in the particular culture; however, I will emphasis that it will take patience and time to truly enjoy what this game provides. 7/10
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Frequently Asked Questions
Black Book is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
No, Black Book is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Black Book received 4,936 positive votes out of a total of 5,308 achieving a rating of 8.97.
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Black Book was developed by Morteshka and published by HypeTrain Digital.
Yes, Black Book is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Black Book is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, Black Book is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Black Book is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Black Book is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, Black Book does not support VR.
Black Book is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 2 DLCs available for Black Book. Explore additional content available for Black Book on Steam.
No, Black Book does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Black Book does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Black Book is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Black Book.
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Developer
Morteshka
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HypeTrain Digital
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10 Aug 2021
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