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Black Book

Morteshka · HypeTrain Digital · 2021-08-10

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AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 10, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 10, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 10, 2021 (Xbox One), Aug 10, 2021 (Mac), Mar 20, 2023 (iOS), Aug 10, 2021 (PlayStation 4)

“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.

Black Book is a $8.49 Adventure, Indie, RPG, and Strategy game released in 2021, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and Very Positive (92% of 6740 reviews) sentiment.

54
playing now
92%
positive of 6.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
IGDB user rating (37 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (84 downloads)
4.58★
PlayStation Store rating (214 ratings)
25h
to beat · rushed 15h · completionist 32h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.49
steam price (US)

54 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Black Book is an adventure role-playing video game, developed by Morteshka, which created The Mooseman, and published by HypeTrain Digital. The game was released on August 10, 2021.

Trailer

Black Book trailer thumbnail

Black Book | Official Trailer (2006)

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 54 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 318 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~40/week).
  • · Review velocity up 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,111 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 135k–303k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,740 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$6.09-76%
Fanatical$6.12-76%
WinGameStore$6.29-75%
GreenManGaming$6.53-74%
Gamesplanet$6.78-73%
GOG$7.49-70%
GamersGate$7.50-70%
Microsoft Store$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.78 at GameBillet (2025-04-13) · bundled 12×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 163 of 219 observed days · $1.31 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.0k1.0k20212026Week of 2021-08-01: 1,047 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 298 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 577 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 244 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

7062026-09-15 13:00 — 32 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 13 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 9 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 30 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 51 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 6 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 30 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 38 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 12 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 51 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 38 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 9 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 14 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 49 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 20 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 26 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 53 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 23 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 20 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 59 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 36 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 21 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 54 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
60827Aug 2021Aug 2026Aug 2021 — avg 608 · peak 1,817Oct 2021 — avg 132 · peak 357Dec 2021 — avg 88 · peak 258Feb 2022 — avg 211 · peak 647Apr 2022 — avg 59 · peak 141Jun 2022 — avg 67 · peak 153Aug 2022 — avg 73 · peak 167Oct 2022 — avg 89 · peak 398Dec 2022 — avg 67 · peak 158Feb 2023 — avg 53 · peak 127Apr 2023 — avg 45 · peak 143Jun 2023 — avg 44 · peak 108Aug 2023 — avg 38 · peak 102Oct 2023 — avg 40 · peak 108Dec 2023 — avg 43 · peak 112Feb 2024 — avg 40 · peak 111Apr 2024 — avg 37 · peak 100Jun 2024 — avg 31 · peak 75Aug 2024 — avg 31 · peak 74Oct 2024 — avg 49 · peak 132Dec 2024 — avg 41 · peak 96Feb 2025 — avg 65 · peak 218Apr 2025 — avg 30 · peak 90Jun 2025 — avg 41 · peak 110Aug 2025 — avg 55 · peak 126Oct 2025 — avg 38 · peak 103Dec 2025 — avg 34 · peak 87Feb 2026 — avg 53 · peak 200Apr 2026 — avg 36 · peak 92Jun 2026 — avg 38 · peak 113Aug 2026 — avg 33 · peak 88
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$4.812021-08-032026-10-142021-08-03 — best price $24.992021-11-15 — best price $18.742022-02-04 — best price $16.242022-04-28 — best price $11.992022-09-06 — best price $24.992022-11-25 — best price $12.502023-01-12 — best price $12.492023-04-06 — best price $12.492023-06-01 — best price $12.492023-08-07 — best price $24.992023-11-17 — best price $10.002023-12-16 — best price $19.912024-02-01 — best price $19.742024-03-06 — best price $9.992024-05-03 — best price $7.922024-06-18 — best price $17.992024-08-07 — best price $20.012024-10-04 — best price $9.992024-11-12 — best price $24.992024-12-27 — best price $10.002025-03-03 — best price $4.992025-04-24 — best price $24.992025-06-11 — best price $8.502025-08-07 — best price $8.742025-10-07 — best price $7.122025-11-21 — best price $6.842026-01-23 — best price $8.742026-04-06 — best price $8.792026-05-08 — best price $21.432026-06-02 — best price $18.362026-06-25 — best price $7.792026-07-20 — best price $21.072026-08-10 — best price $21.302026-09-02 — best price $24.992026-09-22 — best price $5.492026-10-12 — best price $6.122026-10-14 — best price $6.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3472026-05-29 — 26 pageviews2026-06-02 — 26 pageviews2026-06-06 — 24 pageviews2026-06-10 — 18 pageviews2026-06-14 — 20 pageviews2026-06-18 — 31 pageviews2026-06-22 — 21 pageviews2026-06-26 — 28 pageviews2026-06-30 — 15 pageviews2026-07-04 — 17 pageviews2026-07-08 — 16 pageviews2026-07-12 — 13 pageviews2026-07-16 — 13 pageviews2026-07-20 — 18 pageviews2026-07-24 — 24 pageviews2026-07-28 — 17 pageviews2026-08-01 — 12 pageviews2026-08-05 — 23 pageviews2026-08-09 — 12 pageviews2026-08-13 — 24 pageviews2026-08-17 — 22 pageviews2026-08-21 — 7 pageviews2026-08-25 — 20 pageviews2026-08-29 — 33 pageviews2026-09-02 — 24 pageviews2026-09-06 — 28 pageviews2026-09-10 — 20 pageviews2026-09-14 — 34 pageviews2026-09-18 — 26 pageviews2026-09-22 — 20 pageviews2026-09-26 — 23 pageviews2026-09-30 — 20 pageviews2026-10-04 — 16 pageviews2026-10-07 — 16 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
61.7%
earned "Initiation"
15.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2021-08-10, latest 2022-02-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,9646%50
PS4 (PlayStation)25326%51
Xbox One (Xbox)1966%50
PS4 (PlayStation)7718%51
Switch (Nintendo)190%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGStrategyCard GameMythologyRogue-likeRogue-liteStory RichTurn-BasedCard BattlerDeckbuilding

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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