Tales of the Black Forest

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, pixel graphics and rpgmaker 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 13,343 reviews of which 13,043 were positive and 300 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍

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

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

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

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Requirements

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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

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

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.

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. :)

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.

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.

April 2024

I've been playing RPGMaker adventure-horror games for the past decade, didn't think that such a good game still had to be discovered; it's unfortunately not well known and doesn't appear in many lists around the internet, I found it by dumb luck and I couldn't be more glad that I did. For such a cheap price (even cheaper under 70% discount) you comfortably have 5h worth of playtime and I enjoyed every single one of those hours, the game is easy going and got surprisingly nice side characters, a decent well-rounded story and simple but appreciable puzzles every now and then. It's way better than many renowned titles falling under the same genre. 9/10

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-70% 3.99€ 1.19€

9.5

13,043

300

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Developer

拾英工作室

Publisher

SakuraGame

Release 25 Sep 2019

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