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Black Forest

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Black Forest is a survival city builder set in a dark fantasy world where players manage a village under constant threat. By day, gather resources, construct buildings, and strengthen defenses to prepare for nightfall. After sunset, intelligent monsters attack, adapting their tactics to exploit your weaknesses. Each loss permanently impacts your settlement, making strategic planning essential until reinforcements arrive.

Strategy Survival
Black Forest
Release Date:
Platform:
Windows (10, 11)
Developer:
Lemuria
Publisher:
Freedom Games
About this game

Black Forest Overview


Welcome to the dark heart of the Black Forest. Your village was supposed to harvest its bounty, but managed to draw the attention of the unrelenting darkness inhabiting the woods. As the dangers descend upon it, it’s your job as the village chief to help the peasants fend off the creatures and make it through the dark night, as the sinister secrets of the woods best left alone awake and focus their attention on you.

Black Forest is a city builder like no other. Where other games focus on expansion and development, Black Forest is all about defending what’s yours. Strategically assign villagers, gather resources, reinforce defenses, and above all, maintain the delicate balance until the king’s knights arrive.
Every decision matters, every loss is permanent, and come nightfall, the relentless horde of forest-dwellers will test your ability to govern and survive. Remember: Until the king’s knights arrive, you and your villagers are completely on your own.

  • City Building With a Twist: Defend what’s yours and survive, balancing the limited resources at your disposal. Make tough choices: Houses can be rebuilt, but people lost cannot be replaced. But maybe you need to sacrifice one of them to save the many?
  • Survive the Struggle, Not Tech Trees: Outlast, not conquer. You can’t fight the forest and you can’t win by force of arms. Your goal is to lose the least by outsmarting and outthinking the forces arrayed against you, and making hard decisions: What can you lose? What must survive? What part of the tech tree can you do without?
  • Sophisticated AI: Every monster uses a complex set of rules to react to the environment, observing and adapting their behavior. You choose what the villagers work on, while monsters will try to figure out weaknesses and opportunities, then mercilessly pounce on them when you’re not looking.
  • Robust Simulation Features: Weather can dramatically alter the course of your game. Rain, snow, or drought aren’t just cosmetic effects. Villagers need food, but a dry spell will mean they need to irrigate – but that takes workers away from building defenses. What you decide may very well change the course of the game.
  • A Greater World Beyond: Black Forest is set in the expansive world of Dragon Eye, a high fantasy roleplaying setting available for everyone. The game’s campaign will tie into the complex lore and overarching storyline, including decisions and struggles of a world on the edge.

Can Your PC Run It?

System Requirements

Minimum:
  • System: Windows 7 64 bit
  • Processor: X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs
  • DirectX: DirectX 10
  • Storage: 3 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Hardware vendor officially supported drivers; Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Easy Install and Play

Instructions

  1. Click the download button. You can also select a previous version if available.
  2. You’ll be redirected to Vidgazoo. Wait 5 seconds, then directly click the button or copy the link.
    • Make sure you have a supported download client installed (it’s free here) before downloading.
  3. Once the download process reaches 100%, locate the downloaded files.
    • Get ready for installation and make sure you have enough disk space for the game.
  4. To Install DRM-free Black Forest:
    • Run or double-click setup_black_forest_********.exe to launch the installer.
    • Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
    • If a DLC folder is included, run any .exe files inside it as well.
  5. Once the installation is complete, launch the game and start playing.

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