Black Book
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 20.6h
- Value
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 / AMD Radeon R9 280X, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in February 2026. Its cuts run 55 percent off as a rule. There have been 51 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games closest to it, Die in the Dungeon ($14.99, scores 75) and LONESTAR ($12.99, scores 73) both come in lower.
The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
17 of the 655 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 306 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
62% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
absolutely in love with this game, the art is stunning and emotional, love the songs and slavic lore that you discover as you play. truly an enriching game that's quickly become one of my favourites. thank you for making a masterpiece like this
TL/DR; Definitely recommend but chapters need more variation Great story-led spooky deck-builder. Loved the immersive cultural/historical setting within the Uralic villages of Russia. Mechanics are solid and deckbuilding battle gameplay has loads of replay value. However, narrative gameplay gets very repetitive. Mid-way through the third chapter I realised it was essentially the same as any other chapter but with a...
2026.08.10 I have never played a card game like this before. I decided to take a chance because it had story mode. I wanted to go through the game as if reading a book. After losing to a boss three times it asks if you would like to skip the battle as if you won. I read every little bit of this game and enjoyed learning about old wives tales or should I say Koldun's. I believe the game has three endings. It allows...
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Cite this score
Black Book scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1138660/black-bookReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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