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Tales of the Black Forest

Pixel-art horror adventure about escaping a town through time travel

拾英工作室 · Published by 拾英工作室, Gamirror Games · Released Sep 25, 2019

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Reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
97% of 16K
Recent reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
95% of 130 in 30 days
Players
8
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update on Steam
5 months ago
May 21, 2026
Minimum PC
DirectX 9 GPU
2 GB RAM · 1 GB disk
Full requirements

What is Tales of the Black Forest?

This single-player adventure follows high school student Kihara Kashin, who is trapped in the Japanese town of Kuromori-chō and told she must travel to the past to leave. Across three story chapters, you meet characters and yōkai, read dialogue, and solve puzzles and riddles.

For you if...

  • +you like unsettling stories involving Japanese yōkai
  • +you enjoy solving riddles between character conversations

Not for you if...

  • −you prefer action-heavy play over reading dialogue
  • −you dislike chase sequences that demand careful timing

What players say

97% of 15,806 reviews are positive · 95% of 130 in the last 30 days

Players praise the story, characters, art, and music. Some find the dialogue slow or the chase sections unforgiving.

How many players finish Tales of the Black Forest?

39% of Steam players have unlocked «A white snowflake like a flower in summer», the achievement for finishing the main story.

Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.

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Tales of the Black Forest system requirements

Minimum: DirectX 9 GPU, 2 GB RAM, 1 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

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

Does Tales of the Black Forest have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does Tales of the Black Forest run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

  • Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
  • All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
  • In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
  • Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
  • External controllers are not supported for the primary player

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows
Achievements
15
Steam features
Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Languages
Text only: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese.

Does Tales of the Black Forest use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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