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Forge the legend of Baba Yaga, a girl accused of witchcraft and expelled from her home. Live out the origins of the Slavic myth in this one-of-a-kind blend of intense archery combat and dark storytelling set in a vibrant fairy tale world.

BLACKTAIL is a story rich, action-adventure and archery game developed by THE PARASIGHT and published by Focus Entertainment.
Released on December 15th 2022 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, Polish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Czech, Korean and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 2,276 reviews of which 1,854 were positive and 422 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.66€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified BLACKTAIL into these genres:

Story Rich Action-Adventure Archery Mythology Open World Atmospheric Dark Fantasy First-Person Exploration Choices Matter Female Protagonist Dark Humor Action RPG Surreal Singleplayer Colorful FPS Action Medieval Multiple Endings

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64bit only)
Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K / AMD FX-4300
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 4 GB VRAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / Radeon RX 470
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 20 GB available space

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Feb. 2026

The morality system changing the way you interact with the world at a fundamental level was very interesting and I would love to see it expanded on. Two major criticisms: the path not affecting the ending was a big miss to me, and the title progression was often very unclear. Solid game, I had fun! Devs if you see this you guys should do an FPS defense game, that gnoll cave siege was a standout.

Feb. 2026

As for the game itself, I’m very satisfied. I love jumping into something unknown with an unusual story that pulls me in, and this game absolutely did that. It doesn’t feel like a copy of anything — it really has its own identity, something fresh that you don’t often see in other games. That’s exactly why I liked it so much. I even love the visuals — they feel like someone painted the world on a canvas, especially the sky, which really stood out to me. The overall style and story are both very well done. For achievement hunters, I want to clarify something, because one achievement in particular — “A Friend in Need” — is a bit tricky. There’s an interactive Blacktail map where you can mark Mr. Larva and the Ant Queen. You’ll most likely be playing on the “good” path, helping the larva during every interaction. As for the Queen, simply refuse her and don’t help her. Now this part is IMPORTANT: after restarting your save from the main base, go to the Summer area and follow the main road that leads to what looks less like a cave and more like a hollow rock formation — the exact spot where a large stone previously blocked your path. Continue straight just a little further. You’ll see that you can jump onto a platform and spot a climbable route upward. This isn’t really a road, more like a short climb that takes you to a side passage where the final interaction with the larva happens. The conversation is about a broom. THIS LOCATION IS NOT MARKED ON THE MAP, AND THERE’S NO PROPER GUIDE THAT EXPLAINS IT — which is why many people miss it.

Feb. 2026

BABA YAGA! An interesting Western Slavic take on the Baba Yaga mythology with some spoofs of other fairy tails thrown in, which may remind a lot of people of how The Witcher did it. You've got your Snow White, your Sleeping Beauty, your Snegurochka... and of course there's some knight-on-dragon action (in a way), a hut on chicken legs for you to make home, and lots of mystical mysteries to untangle. To wit: two twin orphans, Yaga and Zora, are raised in a village until their teens, whereupon people start talking of the return of the evil witch Baba whose earlier disappearance was the reason for much joy. Shortly afterward, other teens start disappearing from the village, and when Yaga gets blamed for it due to her... oddness... she and her sister flee into the woods. And when Zora disappears as well, Yaga takes her bow and sets off to investigate... It tries to pretend it's a survivalcraft game but you don't really build anything and all the crafting is no more complex than in the new Tomb Raider games - make arrows, upgrade your stuff, that's all the loot you find is useful for. It exists only to impose a deferred limit on your ammo and healing capability in long boss fights, and with respawning sources of almost all resources always scattered around the boss arenas, even that isn't a challenge. It's best to look at it as a semi-open world Metroidvania. You unlock traversal abilities that let you get over or smash down obstacles to unlock more of the world, plus more areas open as the plot progresses, all centering on the hub of the Hut on Chicken Legs where you go to rest, level up, pet the cat and kiss your ever-growing collection of magical toads (it makes sense in context, I swear). It's beautiful, funny, and witty at times. It is also samey, frustrating, and unfairly hard at times. The backtracking isn't really made easier by the quirky fast travel system (there's three separate teleportation mechanics that kind of speed you up, but only between preset locations), or the vagueness of some assignments. Once you enter the third act, you will have unlocked all the traversal and obstacle-breaking abilities you'll need to go back and mop up everything you haven't done yet. If taken in moderate doses, it's a pretty fun 4/5 star game with genuinely good voice acting whose only downside is that Yaga and the voices in her head speak with EXTREMELY American accents and everyone (even the Slavic-accented voices) swears in modern swearwords. Why the game has a ton of subtitles but no voice acting in Polish or Russian is a mystery to me given the subject matter and the developers.

Dec. 2025

---{ 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 }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ 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 ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

June 2025

TLDR: Great game. Definitely recommend to all fans of the "protagonist running around with a bow" gameplay and to the fans of Kena in particular. As someone who's pretty much a one-trick pony when it comes to stuff game developers give to figure out the fights and such, I am so very pleasantly surprised that by the end I was using the whole arsenal of the provided ammo to its (hopefully) full potential. The exploration is fun and rewarding, the world is very vibrant and colorful with very distinct art style, and the story is great for those who loves slavic folklore and rethinking of popular fairy-tales. Voice actors, in my personal opinion, are absolutely great. Does the game has quite a cooky sort of humor that relies on the delivery? Yes, and it does deliver. Played with Russian subtitles for clarify and was doubly so pleasantly surprised by how well the translations match in all regards, that's just a separate point for applause for the development team. Having collected all the stuff that could be collected (outside of achievements, because I'm not playing around with that Good playthough), can definitely say that it's by far my favorite game collectibles-wise, with how intuitive they are to find without having to restort to guides. And when I did resort to guides, the answer I was looking for usually was simply "Get better and win the fight". Oh well. I think the most fascinating, and for some frustrating, part of the game would be not so much the main plot as much as the identity of the main character. At first, I too was a bit frustrated after the ending, in a "That's it?" kind of way. But after sitting on it for a couple of hours of some proper thinking time, I came to an answer that feels satisfying to me personally, and I feel like that's enough. I think that the Voice is actually Yaga's older self, hence why it sounds more mature, knows more things and can talk to the cat. Now, as always with plots based on timelines, the big question is what came first, chicken or the egg? And to that I think, it doesn't matter. Perhaps the game is a journey of making the right choice this time. Perhaps the game is Yaga's way of facing her past and its demons. Either way, I think it ties neatly the identity of the Voice and the game loop of going good-bad-neutral whichever you prefer. Will definitely be following the studio's journey should they make any new projects for us to enjoy. Blacktail is an amazing breath of fresh air among RPGs, and it's lovely to see such high-quality, fun titles outside of Big-A developments. Thank you for the adventure!

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Frequently Asked Questions

BLACKTAIL is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

BLACKTAIL is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

BLACKTAIL received 1,854 positive votes out of a total of 2,276 achieving a rating of 7.84.

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BLACKTAIL was developed by THE PARASIGHT and published by Focus Entertainment.

BLACKTAIL is playable and fully supported on Windows.

BLACKTAIL is not playable on MacOS.

BLACKTAIL is not playable on Linux.

BLACKTAIL is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for BLACKTAIL. Explore additional content available for BLACKTAIL on Steam.

BLACKTAIL does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

BLACKTAIL does not support Steam Remote Play.

BLACKTAIL 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.

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