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Black Forest
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?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“all the negative reviews about a game still in development . to the developer i think your doing a amazing job”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Overall, it’s not as bad as many of the reviews here suggest. It’s neither particularly good nor bad—more of a mid-tier, ‘functional’ game developed by a single person, combining elements of a colony builder and city defense. It used to be free, so I added it to my library back…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Black Forest, developed by Lemuria and published by indie.io, is a survival-focused city-building game that takes the familiar mechanics of the genre and reframes them around endurance rather than expansion. Instead of rewarding players for building sprawling, efficient…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs playedLatest official news
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The Final Update
This is what I expect to be the final update for the game, version 2.5. It contains no gameplay changes, but some Quality of Life updates and improvements: updated engine/core code visual improvements
Final Update in preview for testing
I've uploaded what I expect to be the final update for the game, version 2.5. It's on the preview branch for now, so I can fix any bugs that may have crept in (though there shouldn't be any). Changes:
Bug- and Security-Fix Update
This is a small update containing a few internal updates, bugfixes and an important fix for a security issue in the Unity engine.
Update 2.4 - bugfixes and improvements
I have uploaded an update to improve a number of issues that crept in and make some all-around improvements. It is live on preview now, if there are no issues it will go live on the main branch in a f
bugfix update double-pack
Fixed the bandits quest in Children's Tales to no longer refer to the armoury. Fix for the trial in Darkest Nights. Fixed a naming issue that may in rare cases lead to the game pausing randomly. Impro
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Strategy, Free To Play |
| Player tags | RTS · Survival Horror · Base-Building · Strategy · Resource Management · Casual · Survival · Top-Down · City Builder · Colony Sim · Building · Management (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German |
| Achievements | 27 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: 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