Survive the Black Death as Baldasar, a young Italian boy navigating a plague-ravaged Middle Ages from Italy to France and England. This choice-driven interactive fiction adventure unfolds in three parts, where you manage health through infections, sickness, and injuries while making morality-shaping decisions that alter stories and companions. Track inventory in your satchel, face timed responses, and even battle rats in tense encounters across over 90 detailed locations.
Players encounter unique characters like thieves, deserters, and desperate townsfolk, choosing paths of righteousness or vengeance amid bandits and death. Health neglect leads to fatal consequences, just as in history. Indie adventure fans who relish branching narratives and survival tension will find a gripping test of wits and ethics.
Tales of the Black Death is choice driven interactive fiction plague survival adventure.
The game is a three-part series set in the Middle Ages during the plague that spread from Italy to France and finally reached England.
In Tales of the Black Death, you play as Baldasar, a young Italian boy.
Part 1 : Tales of the Black Death – Italy
Hunted by the death of his parents from an unknown illness, Baldasar becomes an outcast and finds solace in the companionship of a traveling thief.
Together, they try to survive the unforgiving land populated with disease, bandits and death.
Part 2 : Tales of the Black Death – France
As the Black Death rages in Italy, Baldasar flees to France where a voice from the past warns him of the apocalyptic state of the known world. In his journey he will become the protector of a young French girl in search of her missing mother as they try to survive the unforgiving land and cross paths with desperate townsfolk, man-at-arms and death.
Part 3 : Tales of the Black Death - England
Having befriended two army deserters, Baldasar joins them in their journey until fate decides otherwise. Through cruel and unknown land, he reaches London at the height of the pandemic where he discovers a town ravaged by death and despair.
Will he choose a path paved with goodness or turn his blade into a weapon of vengeance?
A game of survival.
While it’s important to eat from now and then, the game primarily tracks your health which is represented by infections, sickness and injury inflicting your characters.
In the Middle Ages, it was common to die as a result of neglected an illness for too long. This is also the case in Tales of the Black Death.
A game of morality.
In addition to managing your health, injuries, malaise and infections, the game establishes its own morality landscape where the player has to make difficult choices.
Many of the choices you make will impact the story or the characters around you. Lie, cheat, betray others or follow the path of righteousness...it’s all up to you.
Beware how you play: Indulging in iniquities will diminish your morality and could lead to the loss of your soul.
Features
• Hundreds of player choices.
• Visit over 90 finely detailed locations.
• Encounter many unique characters throughout your journey.
• Keep track of what you are carrying in your satchel. (Inventory)
• Timed responses will keep you on your toes!
• Rat-battle system to practice your rat-stabbing skills!
