Tails Noir
2021 video game
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Tails Noir (previously known as Backbone) is a 2021 noir role-playing indie video game by Canadian developer EggNut and published by Raw Fury. It was released for Microsoft Windows in June 2021, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in October 2021, and on Nintendo Switch in February 2022.[1][2] A prequel, titled Tails Noir Preludes, was released in February 2023 on Windows.[3]
| Tails Noir | |
|---|---|
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| Developer | EggNut |
| Publisher | Raw Fury |
| Director | Aleksandra Korabelnikova |
| Producer | Ishani Birch |
| Designer | Alexander Kolchin |
| Programmers | Nikita Danshin Artem Pisarev Diana Stolyrova |
| Artists | Toma Klepinina Kristina Dashevskaya Kirill Simonenko Julia Migacheva Sonya Ptitsyna Antonina Shipulina |
| Writers | Danny Wadeson Alexandra Korabelnikova Martin Hanses |
| Composers | Nikita Danshin Arooj Aftab |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 4 |
| Platforms | |
| Release | 8 June 2021
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| Genre | Role-playing |
| Mode | Single-player |
Plot
Reception
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| Metacritic | PC: 72/100[6] PS5: 63/100[7] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| Adventure Gamers |   [8] |
| Destructoid | 7/10[9] |
| RPGFan | 78/100[10] |
| Shacknews | 6/10[11] |
| The Guardian | [12] |
The game was awarded with the Gran Prix, Best PC Game and Best Art categories at the DevGAMM Unreal Engine competition in Minsk, Belarus,[13][14] and with the Best Indie Game Award at the Strasbourg European Film Festival in France.[13]
Prequel
A prequel, titled Tails Noir Preludes, was released in February 2023 on Windows.[3]