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Black The Fall
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?
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Nice 2.5D-side-scroller similar to games like Inside, Sommerville, Little Nightmares etc. If you like these, you will surely enjoy this one too. Only downside for me is that the laser-pointer controlls are a little clumsy, but you get used to it. I suggest to buy when on sale…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“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.…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“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,…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Black The Fall Out Now On the Nintendo Switch European eShop
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Black The Fall is Coming to Nintendo Switch™ This Winter
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Indie · Adventure · Action · Atmospheric · Platformer · Puzzle-Platformer · Puzzle · Dystopian · Story Rich · Dark · 2.5D · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 14 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://blackthefall.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8/10 Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, 3.0 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 940, 3.0 GHz Memory: 3 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 1 GB / Radeon R7 250, 1 GB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 4 GB available space