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Set in 14th-century Europe during a devastating plague, The Black Death casts you as a survivor in a dangerous open world. You can cooperate with other players or compete with them for scarce resources. Gather food and materials, hunt animals, trade with merchants, and defend yourself from bandits. The plague moves across towns and countryside, so you can avoid infected areas or attempt to slow its spread. Choose from professions such as blacksmith, peasant, or bandit, and learn skills to aid your survival. Craft weapons and armor, then acquire and upgrade a homestead, hire staff, and use a research lab to investigate the plague.

Survive plague-ravaged medieval Europe by scavenging, crafting, and building while avoiding infection in a multiplayer open world.

Released 19 Apr 2016

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Survival

Medieval

RPG

Massively Multiplayer

Open World Survival Craft

PvP

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Autopsy Infected Victims

Build a Medieval Estate

Plague has left a trail of destruction across 14th century Europe. Survivors confront sickness and scarce resources in a land rife with banditry. Fight for scarce resources and learn new crafting techniques. But at all times you MUST avoid the plague. This is the land of ‘The Black Death’.

Developed by Syrin Studios, Small Impact Games · Published by Syrin Studios

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From the Devs

A catastrophic plague has left a trail of destruction across 14th century Europe. Survivors confront sickness and scarce resources in a land rife with banditry.

To survive you will need to fight for scarce resources including food and learning new crafting techniques will certainly improve your chances. But in the desperate times, you will need to defend yourself in a land full of bandits looking to profit at your expense and at all times you MUST avoid the plague

Conditions are harsh, times are dark - this is the land of ‘The Black Death’.

A GRITTY MEDIEVAL MULTIPLAYER WORLD

Embark on a journey through a dark and gritty open-world depiction of a plague-infested Medieval Europe. Team up with other players and work together to prosper and survive or enforce a world where the sly, the strongest, meanest take everything by force. But be careful who you trust…

A LAND RAVAGED BY PLAGUE

Was it God or was it the devil himself that despatched this evil plague on Europe’s population? No one knows for sure, but everyone knows that it will kill.
Watch as the plague slowly rolls across the towns and countryside with the world event system, do you avoid the plague or attempt to combat it and prevent it spreading? If you find yourself in a plague area too long or are in contact with a plague victim, it is only a matter of time until you will succumb.

FORGE YOUR OWN PATH

Take advantage of different realistic medieval professions: Crafting fine armors to protect yourself from deadly raiders as a Blacksmith, taming animals and farming the land as a Peasant, tricking players with counterfeit goods as a Bandit, and much, much more.

Try to rebuild society by building a homestead by yourself, or with friends. Develop your building skills and turn a rickety shack into a powerful estate, complete with an ultimate medieval research lab to help you perform your experiments and find a cure.