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Developer(s) | EggNut |
Publisher(s) | Raw Fury |
Director(s) | Aleksandra Korabelnikova |
Producer(s) | Ishani Birch |
Designer(s) | Alexander Kolchin |
Programmer(s) | Nikita Danshin Artem Pisarev Diana Stolyrova |
Artist(s) | Toma Klepinina Kristina Dashevskaya Kirill Simonenko Julia Migacheva Sonya Ptitsyna Antonina Shipulina |
Writer(s) | Danny Wadeson Alexandra Korabelnikova Martin Hanses |
Composer(s) | Nikita Danshin Arooj Aftab |
Engine | Unreal Engine 4 |
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Release | 8 June 2021
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Genre(s) | Role-playing |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Tails Noir (previously known as Backbone) is a noir role-playing indie video game developed by 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]
Set in a dystopian version of Vancouver, Canada, populated by anthropomorphic creatures, Tails Noir follows Howard Lotor, a raccoon and private detective tasked with solving mysteries. [4] [5]
Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | PC: 72/100 [6] PS5: 63/100 [7] |
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Adventure Gamers | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Destructoid | 7/10 [9] |
RPGFan | 78/100 [10] |
Shacknews | 6/10 [11] |
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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]