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The Black Death
Plague has left a trail of destruction across 14th century Europe. Survivors confront sickness and scarce resources in a land rife with banditry. Fight for scarce resources and learn new crafting techniques. But at all times you MUST avoid the plague. This is the land of ‘The Black Death’.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Death game!”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“I spent 40 minutes trying to unlock my character and move around upon loading in and was not successful, crashing multiple times in the process, despite not hitting an hour and the game being abandoned and unplayable steam for some reason decided this one must stay in my…”
— 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
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
The Black Death Project News
Good Day Mercians We have paused the storefront/purchasing of the black death, this is due to recent server instability over the past weekend and the on-going homestead save issues combined, made it t
Rebellion News Update 2021
Happy new year Mercians! We wanted to post an announcement (yep another one!) on the progress of the rebellion update. Work is still going ahead and we are making strides on the major content required
Rebellion Update News
Good Day Mercians We once again apologize for the persistent delays on the current update for the black death "Rebellion" we understand this is the main cause for players to believe that we have aband
Rebellion Update Progress
Good day Mercians! We hope everyone is well in these turbulent times and wanted to let you know that we are still in full operation on our end still adding final touches to the rebellion update. In th
Rebellion Update Delayed
Good day Mercians! We are aware that the original date set for the rebellion update has not been met, we apologize for the delay and the frustration this has caused. We were trying our best to get thi
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, RPG, Early Access |
| Player tags | Survival · Medieval · Open World · Multiplayer · Adventure · RPG · Early Access · Action · Crafting · MMORPG · Massively Multiplayer · Open World Survival Craft (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Russian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish |
| Achievements | 1 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.theblackdeathgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 10 (64bit OS) Processor: 2 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit CPU Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: Compatible GPU with 1 GB Video RAM DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 10 GB available space