Tails Noir
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. A prequel, titled Tails Noir Preludes, was released in February 2023 on Windows.
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Tails Noir
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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. A prequel, titled Tails Noir Preludes, was released in February 2023 on Windows.
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• Title — Tails Noir • Developer — EggNut • Publisher — Raw Fury • Director — Aleksandra Korabelnikova • Producer — Ishani Birch • Designer — Alexander Kolchin • Programmer — Nikita Danshin Artem Pisarev Diana Stolyrova • Artist — Toma Klepinina Kristina Dashevskaya Kirill Simonenko Julia Migacheva Sonya Ptitsyna Antonina Shipulina • Writer — Danny Wadeson Alexandra Korabelnikova Martin Hanses • Composer — Nikita Danshin Arooj Aftab • Engine — Unreal Engine 4 • Platforms — * Microsoft Windows • PlayStation 4 • PlayStation 5 • Xbox One • Xbox Series X/S • Nintendo Switch • Genre — Role-playing • Modes — Single-player
Plot
Plot
• Illustration — Gameplay screenshot. 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.
Prequel
Prequel
A prequel, titled Tails Noir Preludes, was released in February 2023 on Windows.
Reception
The game was awarded with the Gran Prix, Best PC Game and Best Art categories at the DevGAMM Unreal Engine competition in Minsk, Belarus, and with the Best Indie Game Award at the Strasbourg European Film Festival in France.
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- 1.GameTrailers. Backbone - Official Switch Release Date Announcement Trailer. 19 January 2022.
- 2.Warner, Noelle. Narrative noir game Backbone is sneaking its way onto Switch. Destructoid. 19 January 2022.
- 3.Tails: The Backbone Preludes - Official Launch Trailer. IGN. 2 February 2023.
- 4.Iwaniuk, Phil. Backbone review – raccoon PI stars in a noir adventure with an inexplicable twist. The Guardian. 2 September 2021.
- 5.Jackson, Lara. Backbone Player Solves Puzzle Using a Famous Gaming Cheat Code. Screen Rant. 18 August 2021.
- 6.Backbone for PC Reviews. Metacritic.
- 7.Backbone for PlayStation 5 Reviews. Metacritic.
- 8.Mattsson, Peter. Review for Backbone. Adventure Gamers. 12 September 2021.
- 9.Handley, Zoey. Review: Backbone. Destructoid. 12 September 2021.
- 10.Argyros, Caitlin. Backbone Review. RPGFan. 12 September 2021.
- 11.Jarrard, Chris. Backbone review: Anthropomorphic apathy. Shacknews. 12 September 2021.
- 12.Iwaniuk, Phil. Backbone review – raccoon PI stars in a noir adventure with an inexplicable twist. The Guardian. 12 September 2021.
- 13.Backbone — noir dystopian adventure. EggNut.
- 14.Backbone won Best Art and Best PC Game and BEST GAME at unreal engine contest in Minsk! THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️. 1197888963844984833.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Bell, Alice. Backbone review: it's not what you expect, but hot damn is it pretty. Rock Paper Shotgun. 2021-06-08.
- Lee, Jonathan. Backbone: The Kotaku Review. Kotaku. 2021-06-09.
- Korabelnikova, Aleksandra. Creating the anthropomorphic world of Backbone, coming to PS4 and PS5. PlayStation Blog. 27 October 2021.
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