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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. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“I got this game a while back and playing it off the back of INSIDE, it left no impression on me. I uninstalled and got sidetracked with another game. Black the Fall is a very decent 2.5D game. I am really glad I did not just push through it as I would have been far less…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“1st of all I'll start by saying that I'm Romanian, so I'm biased about the feeling and atmosphere of the game. I've bought the game because I loved Inside and Limbo and wanted to support our fellow devs. What I got was a good sidescroller puzzle if you're not familiar with…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Black the Fall feels like a baby brother to Limbo. You play as a solitary human factory worker, attempting to escape a gigantic communist facility (robo-murder-gulag-communist technically) and make it back home. While visually appealing, it just lacks the punch needed to make…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
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Price tracking
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Latest official news
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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 2026-05-12.
| 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 |
| 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