Black The Fall
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $4.68/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 Ti, 1 GB / Radeon R7 250, 1 GB, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in October 2024. It has been discounted 70 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. INSIDE ($24.99, scores 65) and Seen ($0.99, scores 79) both outscore it.
This site sampled 391 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
60% start to 7% 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
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Currently I enjoy playing 2.5 D puzzle platformers a lot and this is another one. Though I can recommend Black The Fall in general, there are some quite frustrating parts. I don't know through how many deaths my character had to go until I finally figured out how to solve some of the puzzles. Yet eventually it's possible (with trial and error) to find the solution. The atmosphere and graphics hit a certain tone...
I think this game would be a little better if it had violence like in limbo or inside, anyways good puzzles (it gonna make you feel stupid for searching gameplays every 5 seconds) and the story is incredible. Is way too dark sometimes to play with full bright if you can
Rather Simple mechanically, which I'd actually prefer in a game that's atmosphere and art based. Minimal at times to the point gimmick-territory, but honest about it's strenghts and leans into them. I'm not Romian personally, however, I could follow along and parse the story nonetheless. Good play and a banger soundtrack.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Black The Fall scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/308060/black-the-fallThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 21, price as of Sep 24.
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