After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.22/day in the week to Aug 4 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $14.99 | 1.8Kreviews | 78% | — | $581.2K |
| $5.24−65% | 760ratings | 84% | — | not modelled | |
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The game is just kind of boring, you don't move as fluidly as you want and the puzzles while not screwing you over entirely checkpoint wise (per room), can be a bit annoying cuz a lot of them just require you wait for an enemy to go through it's patterns. It wants to be Inside, but it's not even as good as Limbo by any stretch. Also it's got some weirdo extremist version of a totalitarian Communist society, like it's message is just "Communism bad". But yeah, I could have played through that cold war propaganda if the game here was any good, and it's not. It just plays stiff and slow, and there isn't anything really interesting with the story going on either.
Black The Fall is a good, not great 2.5D side-scroller puzzle game that is decent, competent, but yet, probably not worth your time. Starting with the pros -- the game has an incredible art direction and very frequently looks great. It is also short enough that it feels respectful of your time, and the puzzles frequently are quite good (not always thou), with gimmicks evolving as you move further into the game (from standalone laser pointer to controlling the robot, for instance). Most of the puzzles are physics-based and the physics are generally fine. All in all, it gives you a good time and is over before it gets too old. That said, the flaws are very hard to ignore. Narrative-wise, the game is quite minimalistic, which is a nice way to say it has the shell of a story and that`s it. And I think that's a shame, because the universe is quite interesting and well realized, but the game refuses to explain who you are, what you are doing there, and why you should care, which lower the narratives stakes and leave a lot of value at the table. While I mentioned most puzzles are good, some are incredibly obtuse and sometimes hampered by the same great art direction, which obscures elements of the solution in plain sight. I ended up using a guide a few times (mostly on the second half), sometimes just to figure out the movement part of it (since movement in this game is reaaaally janky). It's a shame, because there are few things as frustrating as failing a puzzle because of poor movement (looking at you, Hue). The game is not incredibly well optimized, frequently hovering around 30FPS in the same rig where I played Elden Ring and RDR2 at 60FPS. Soundtrack is basically non-existent and most cheevos are impossible to figure out in your first playthrough. Actually, I saw many comparisons between this game and Limbo/Inside, but for me the best comparison is with the Oddworld series -- both series ask you a lot of mechanical precision on a puzzle game yet fail to deliver a satisfying movement system, and both series ask you to die a lot in order to learn enemy movements and timing, which is a really cheap progression system. All in all, if you have this game in your library you might as well play it, but if you don't, I wouldn't buy it.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese
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Hours played at review time, across 51 reviews with recorded playtime.
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The game is relatively simple. A simple formula where you walk to the right most of the time. There are some puzzles on the way. Most of them are quite simple, but there are some that can actually make you scratch your head for a while. The game is very simple yet entertaining. As other games I have seen in the past, this game is a clear critique on a "bad goverment", which can clearly be identified by its color and logo. The story it presents is simple, not so deep, yet interesting. I would recommend taking your time walking to see the background, which is the actual part of the game that is telling the story, more than your character. 100% recommended for a quick play.
Currently I enjoy playing 2.5 D puzzle platformers a lot and this is another one. Though I can recommend Black The Fall in general, there are some quite frustrating parts. I don't know through how many deaths my character had to go until I finally figured out how to solve some of the puzzles. Yet eventually it's possible (with trial and error) to find the solution. The atmosphere and graphics hit a certain tone which I enjoyed experiencing and the cute little robot dog became a nice company. I enjoyed Black The Fall over several sessions (had to pause after being a bit too frustrated sometimes) and finished the game in about 5h. After completing I reloaded some chapters to get all achievements. Played on a Lenovo Legion Go running bazzite with TPD mode set to performance (20W).
Неплохая смесь Limbo и Inside. Очень понравилась механика в темноте со звуком. Прохождение займет каких-то 2 часика.
It's short but pretty decent. Anti-communist is a plus.
The game is simple but entertaining. You walk most of the time with puzzles on the way. Most of them are easy, but there are some that can actually make you scratch your head. I recommend taking your time walking to see the background, which is the actual story of the game, more than your character
I liked what I could play of the game, BUT don't buy this if you have an X Box S series, it crashes about half way through and you cant get past it
Rather Simple mechanically, which I'd actually prefer in a game that's atmosphere and art based. Minimal at times to the point gimmick-territory, but honest about it's strenghts and leans into them. I'm not Romian personally, however, I could follow along and parse the story nonetheless. Good play and a banger soundtrack.
Black The Fall es una aventura plataformera 2D, dividida en varios capítulos, en el que deberemos usar nuestra inteligencia, para poder avanzar. La historia trata de un ciudadano bautizado con el nombre de Black, que vive en un mundo distopico comunista, en el que ejerce de maquinista. Cansado de vivir como esclavo, decide escapar de sus captores, y enfrentarse al sistema. Durante su travesía, conocerá un pequeño robot cuadrúpedo, que le ayudara. El tipo de jugabilidad que nos ofrecerá es solventar puzles, para deshacernos de los obstáculos que nos encontremos. Durante una parte del juego, utilizaremos un brazo con función de controlador, para dirigir a otras personas o nuestro robot de compañía a realizar determinadas acciones. Gráficamente está muy bien diseñado en 2D, mezclando de fondo el 3D. Pasaremos por varias escenografías de interiores como exteriores, que están influenciada bajo el yugo del peor aspecto comunista. Fabricas llena de esclavos explotados, paisajes naturales deteriorados por los conflictos civiles, ciudad invadida por la pobreza y la ausencia de la libertad, etc. Sobre nuestro protagonista tiene aspecto humanoide, pero parece más bien un androide. Banda sonora normalita. Muy bien ofrecido los efectos de sonido proveniente de distintas fuentes. El juego ofrece compatibilidad con mando, guardado en la nube, traducción al castellano, logros y cromos Steam. Sobre los logros, hay que mencionar, que una parte de ellos, es encontrar zonas ocultas mayoritariamente. Debes entender, que algunos de estos desafíos, tarda su tiempo en sacarlos adelante, por ejemplo, la caja que te aporta el gorrito como skin al personaje, en el cual debes esperar a que haga acto de presencia, y pedirle a tu mascota robot alcanzarla. También el juego en su menú principal, aporta una misión desafío, de disparar calabazas de Halloween (No te preocupes, que el no jugarlo, no influye en la trama, y tampoco conseguir un logro). Personalmente, me ha parecido entretenido, y te ayudara distraerte como unas 4 horas. Lo que me gusto mucho, es el mensaje alto y claro, sobre las consecuencias negativas del fascismo. Black The Fall te recordará a títulos como “Inside”, “Limbo”, o “Deadlight: Director's Cut”, así que, si es tu estilo de juego, puedes llegar a encontrarlo en tiendas de keys Steam por 1€.
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