BLACKTAIL Walkthrough and Guide

Before starting a new game, select the desired difficulty level. It only affects how dangerous opponents will be.

After loading, go forward and remove the bow from the bush. Move on, click on the mouse wheel to make a dash and kill the vodniks. Collect crystals. Look a little further, collect branches and find feathers among the grass. Hold TAB and craft arrows. Go forward and shoot the red oak.

Hunger

Take a look at the locations. You need meat. There is an altar nearby. Collect the red flower and use it on the altar to save. In the future, the saves will work either at the altars, or before some important battles with monsters or other actions that affect the plot and gameplay. Keep collecting resources.

Go downstairs, shoot the apple to help the hedgehog and do a good deed. You can choose the path of Light or Darkness. Depending on the decisions you make, the character of Yaga will develop. Along the path of Light and Darkness, different tricks (special skills) will be available. Normal abilities are available on any path.

Run after the deer and shoot him. Keep chasing and kill the deer in the clearing.

Take the meat and return to the frozen well. Climb up to the ledge with the flowers. These colors mark all the ledges that you can climb. You will see a plant that grabbed a bird. If you shoot, do an evil deed, but get feathers. If you want to do a good deed, free the bird. Climb up and jump down to find a chest. Inside it is a tooth. Tooth is the main resource used to unlock skills. But each skill also requires additional materials: red flowers, honey, branches, feathers, crystals, eyes, and so on, press I to see how many of these or other resources you have (at the bottom of the screen).

Keep moving, return to the fire and fry the meat. Complete a simple mini-game. You will learn about state effects.

Longing for Her

Walk over the fallen tree. You will pick up the first Rushman. These creatures sit on branches. You can shoot them for clues related to the plot. And don't forget that you can collect them. What they are for is unknown at this stage. Use the dash on the mouse wheel to break the clay vases. Enter the Hut. You can pet the cat along the way. You can walk around the hut to collect resources. Shoot the spiders from which the eyes fall out. Examine the map and cauldron. The latter will allow you to unlock skills. Now you have a heart. Click and hold on the corresponding image to permanently increase your maximum health (number of hearts). Climb up to the second floor.

After the cutscene, follow the trail and press F. You can dispel such obstacles with this skill. Defeat the first enemies. You don't need to pull the string all the way. Use normal shots. Such opponents die with one hit, so do not waste time on powerful arrows! Continue past the broken bridge and interact with the mushrooms. The mushrooms are asked to deal with the "Dragon", which is stealing honey, and in exchange they promise to fix the bridge.

There be Dragons

The previous task will have to be postponed in order to complete this quest. You can move to the "red cross" on the map or get distracted and explore the locations, collecting a lot of useful resources. If your pockets are full, you don't need to pick up what you already have in abundance. It's pointless. You cannot fish from the pier. The fishing rod will open later, according to the story!

On the way to the goal, you will be able to meet several times a worm and ants. The worm needs help, the ants - refuse. All of these are good deeds. If you do otherwise, you will commit evil deeds. Also, good deeds include the destruction of ant hives. To do this, press F. If you see a hive with bees, place a red flower below, and get honey by doing a good deed. If you shoot at the hive, it will be an evil deed.

There are two roads leading to the bridge leading to the other side. If you go on the right, you will have to go past the gorge where the marker leads. If you reach the bridge, go back along the other path. You can go to the left. Kill all enemies and reach the first carnivorous plant. Shoot it at will so that it hides for a while. A little further there will be a passage to a closed place with a chest (there is a lost page inside, which is necessary to unlock the skill) and amber. This amber can be thrown into the cauldron to trigger an additional cutscene.

When you are ready, go through the gorge, burning the thickets with the F key. Eventually, you will meet the Knight. He will say that you need to get gunpowder. Use a special technique to destroy all enemies at once: hold RMB and LMB, charge the arrow, then press F. A powerful explosion will kill everyone in front of you.

Cross the bridge and enter the cave on the left. You have to defeat the Toadbag.

How to kill Toadbag

Everything is very simple, even at the usual level of complexity. Look at the ground and determine where the Toadbag will appear. Run up, load the arrow. As soon as the Toadbag crawls out of the ground, press F. You will deal a lot of damage. There will be enough mana to quickly repeat 4-5 of these moves and defeat the Toadbag. Take gunpowder.

Leave the cave and go forward. Kill normal enemies and vodniks. Search the chest. Pull the bone in front of the fort ahead. You will learn how to use a broom. Defeat all overgrown gnomes.

Be sure to search the chest, which can be accessed via the stairs on the left. Cross a large clearing with poisonous flowers, fireflies, mushrooms and so on. You will reach the Dragon's lair. Place the bait in front of the cave entrance and hide in the bushes. When a small mushroom appears, go to it. After the cut-scene, go to the cave, kill the fireflies. Eventually, you will fall into a trap. Take a couple of steps to make the boss appear.