Tales of the Black Forest on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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In a world filled with yōkai, a surging dark power has overshadowed a Japanese town. A group of 2 developers have produced a Japanese pixel adventure game to tell a tale that dates back to the Heisei era...In the name of dreams and passion.

Tales of the Black Forest is a rpg, rpgmaker and pixel graphics game developed by 拾英工作室 and published by SakuraGame.
Released on September 25th 2019 is available only on Windows in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese.

It has received 13,947 reviews of which 13,633 were positive and 314 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 1.19€ on Steam with a 70% discount.

The Steam community has classified Tales of the Black Forest into these genres:

RPG RPGMaker Pixel Graphics Horror Indie Adventure Story Rich Female Protagonist Anime Visual Novel Atmospheric Psychological Horror Singleplayer Puzzle 2D JRPG

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: WIN7 SP1/WIN8/WIN10/XP
  • Processor: 1.2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible graphics card
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025
Short and sweet. Not much of a game besides a few easy puzzles and some extremely short chase sequences, and even then, it just sort of takes you by the hand through all of it. Story and characters carried tho - really nice, softly twisted fairy tale vibes. Looks good too. The world could've been bigger tho, I can pretty much map it out of top of my head. In the end still very enjoyable, mainly story-driven experience.
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Dec. 2024
It's an horror adventure essentially happening in the 90ies in a small Japanese village. You play a girl who's able to see yokai, which puts this game slightly on the horror side. As far as I can tell, the story revolves around a childhood trauma and the Tokyo subway attacks that happened in 1995. I like it as it helps anchoring the story in the real world and contrasts with the supernatural "horror". Speaking of the horror theme, the game being in 16-bits style, I expect it will be manageable for most players. Controls cannot be redefined but it should not be a problem here. They are essentially the arrows keys to move, shift to run, 'Z' to interact, 'A' to turn-on a flashlight and 'X' to cancel. Keep in mind you can press 'F4' to play in fullscreen mode. I've only played one chapter so far and I've enjoyed it.
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Nov. 2024
For anyone interested in some of the true events that inspired this game: In 1995 Japan's subway system was attacked by a cult and the goal was to blame the attack on the United States in the hope the Japanese government would start a war. The cult's leader, Shoko Asahara preached that if a war was started, his prophecies would come true. (The Crimes and Consequences podcast has an episode on this!) This game also explores the consequences of the The Heisei era's prolonged economic slowdown and crisis in the financial world. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this blend of historical events and Japanese folklore! I'm so grateful that this game was translated into English, I'd recommend it to everyone. :)
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Nov. 2024
🍙 Simply enchanted by this mystical dramatic tale. It's incredibly cozy and charming, and the mini-plots are able to touch to the depths of the heart, despite the rather harsh reality basis. There is a place for horror, drama and a real soul, which cannot be said about many even non-game stories. No questions, it doesn't shock with innovations, but it works. Total recommendation.
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Sept. 2024
So I just finished doing a 100%, both endings and it only took 5 hours with me going pretty slow. It was fun. A decent story (if predictable) with good, likable characters. Far more of a visual novel than a game-game, I'd say about 50% of the time playing the game was reading dialogue. Honestly I think it trying to be horror brought it down. There were large sections of the game where the ONLY thing signalling it as a horror game was the OST and the fact it was night time. The story is, ultimately, a tragedy and works best when it's leaning into that rather than trying to be a horror game. This game is not scary; creepy at best. There were a few startle moments, but overall not frightening, but the bit of intrigue about the story kept me going to the end.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Tales of the Black Forest is currently priced at 1.19€ on Steam.

Tales of the Black Forest is currently available at a 70% discount. You can purchase it for 1.19€ on Steam.

Tales of the Black Forest received 13,633 positive votes out of a total of 13,947 achieving an impressive rating of 9.50.
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Tales of the Black Forest was developed by 拾英工作室 and published by SakuraGame.

Tales of the Black Forest is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Tales of the Black Forest is not playable on MacOS.

Tales of the Black Forest is not playable on Linux.

Tales of the Black Forest is a single-player game.

Tales of the Black Forest does not currently offer any DLC.

Tales of the Black Forest does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Tales of the Black Forest does not support Steam Remote Play.

Tales of the Black Forest 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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Tales of the Black Forest
-70% 3.99€ 1.19€
9.5
13,633
314
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Developer
拾英工作室
Publisher
SakuraGame
Release 25 Sep 2019
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