Black the Fall (stylized as BLA?K THE FALL) is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Sand Sailor Studio and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The player controls a machinist in a dystopic world inspired by the Romanian Revolution solving environmental puzzles and avoiding death. Black the Fall is a puzzle platformer. The player character is an unnamed machinist who escapes a surreal and mostly monochromatic environment presented as a 2.5D platform game. The player controls the machinist who walks climbs and uses objects to overcome obstacles and progress in the game. The machinist gains the ability to mind control other workers and later a robot to complete certain puzzles.