Fairytale Distillery have posted answers to a number of questions on the Das Tal Kickstarter campaign page, one of which addresses the game’s conceptual overlaps with Crowfall:

We are very aware of the design similarities between our own project and Crowfall, a game with a larger budget and following. The simplest explanation is that both games’ core ideas come from the same realisations inspired by the same game – Shadowbane. But we have actually started working on our game more than 1.5 years before Crowfall was even announced.

So there’s that. Of course, Das Tal is being worked on by fans of Shadowbane, whereas Crowfall is being worked on by one of the creators thereof. But for those who enjoyed those core concepts, it would seem that either game — or both! — will serve well to scratch that itch.

The Das Tal Kikstarter campaign is sitting at €18,116 (of a stated €50,000 goal) as of this writing, with eighteen days remaining.