Black Forest

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Welcome to the dark heart of the Black Forest. Your village was supposed to harvest its bounty, but managed to draw the attention of the unrelenting darkness inhabiting the woods.

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Release date:
25 September 2023
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Recent Steam reviews:
Mostly Negative
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Negative (21)
User tags*:Top-DownFantasySingleplayer3DRealistic

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Welcome to the dark heart of the Black Forest. Your village was supposed to harvest its bounty, but managed to draw the attention of the unrelenting darkness inhabiting the woods. As the dangers descend upon it, it's your job as the village chief to help the peasants fend off the creatures and make it through the dark night, as the sinister secrets of the woods best left alone awake and focus their attention on you.

Black Forest is a city builder like no other. Where other games focus on expansion and development, Black Forest is all about defending what's yours. Strategically assign villagers, gather resources, reinforce defenses, and above all, maintain the delicate balance until the king's knights arrive.

Every decision matters, every loss is permanent, and come nightfall, the relentless horde of forest-dwellers will test your ability to govern and survive. Remember: Until the king's knights arrive, you and your villagers are completely on your own.

  • City Building With a Twist: Defend what's yours and survive, balancing the limited resources at your disposal. Make tough choices: Houses can be rebuilt, but people lost cannot be replaced. But maybe you need to sacrifice one of them to save the many?

  • Survive the Struggle, Not Tech Trees: Outlast, not conquer. You can't fight the forest and you can't win by force of arms. Your goal is to lose the least by outsmarting and outthinking the forces arrayed against you, and making hard decisions: What can you lose? What must survive? What part of the tech tree can you do without?

  • Sophisticated AI: Every monster uses a complex set of rules to react to the environment, observing and adapting their behavior. You choose what the villagers work on, while monsters will try to figure out weaknesses and opportunities, then mercilessly pounce on them when you're not looking.

  • Robust Simulation Features: Weather can dramatically alter the course of your game. Rain, snow, or drought aren't just cosmetic effects. Villagers need food, but a dry spell will mean they need to irrigate - but that takes workers away from building defenses. What you decide may very well change the course of the game.

  • A Greater World Beyond: Black Forest is set in the expansive world of Dragon Eye, a high fantasy roleplaying setting available for everyone. The game's campaign will tie into the complex lore and overarching storyline, including decisions and struggles of a world on the edge.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7 64 bit
Processor:
X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Graphics:
DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs
DirectX:
Version 10
Storage:
3 GB available space
Additional Notes:
Hardware vendor officially supported drivers

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7 64 bit
Processor:
X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Graphics:
DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs
DirectX:
Version 10
Storage:
3 GB available space
Additional Notes:
Hardware vendor officially supported drivers

User reviews

Keeper Artemus
Not recommended | 12 Apr 2023
45 min played

This game seemed fine at first and I enjoyed what I played of the tutorial. However, gameplay was a little frustrating when monsters appeared at night and wiped out numerous food sources and other buildings. I also thought it was odd that I couldn't manually save. It's supposed to save automatically each morning. However, I played for a while and then when I returned a couple of days later there was no way to

Helpful: 48
Adahlric|TTV
Not recommended | 13 Jul 2024
1.7h played

I don't even know where to start on this. Game mechanics aren't there. The outline for what the game wants to be is there, but is poorly executed. "Guards" constantly get stuck on buildings or in a fight animation loop that makes them worthless. Being able to only hire 2 guards and 2 archers when the game wants to send 14 wolves, 6 rats, a bear and a troll at you makes them worthless. This should be delegated to the

Helpful: 15
Umamoon
Not recommended | 18 Jun 2024
4.1h played

all the tavern jobs are useless, everything that is built is destroyed every night, this game only builds during the day and is destroyed at night

Helpful: 19