Black Forest on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?

Black Forest is a casual, survival and base-building game developed by Lemuria and published by .
Released on September 25th 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 2 languages: English and German.

It has received 397 reviews of which 299 were positive and 98 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.19€ on Steam with a 70% discount, but you can find it for 2.93€ on Instant Gaming.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • 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
MacOS
  • OS: High Sierra 10.13+
  • Processor: X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Metal-capable Intel and AMD GPUs
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Apple officially supported drivers
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and CentOS 7
  • Processor: X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ or Vulkan-capable, Nvidia and AMD GPUs.
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Gnome desktop environment running on top of X11 windowing system, Nvidia official proprietary graphics driver or AMD Mesa graphics driver. Other configuration and user environment as provided stock with the supported distribution (Kernel, Compositor, etc.)

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025
I like the idea of the game. small village to survive. I wish game could be longer. and even more complex. The nice idea of surviving.
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Black Forest
7.1
299
98
Online players
1
Developer
Lemuria
Release 25 Sep 2023
Platforms
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