Fairytale Distillery have formally announced the real name of the game that, until now, we have known as Das Tal (“The Valley”, for those of you who don’t speak German). Yes, apparently Das Tal was in fact just a working title, a project name if you will; the actual name of the game is The Exiled:

Today is a big day for us at Fairytale Distillery. After nearly four years of development on “Das Tal”, we finally found a fitting name for our game: The Exiled.

As to why they changed the name…

There are many reasons for why we prefer The Exiled over Das Tal. Here are the two main ones:

1.) The Exiled puts the focus of the name on what is really important: The people of the valley. When playing our game you are one of the exiled. We care about your experience while playing our “social sandbox”. The fact that you are in a valley (that is what “Das Tal” means in German) is secondary to that.

2.) It paints a picture in your head in a way that “Das Tal” never could. While having a German name was never a problem for us – many players actually found it pretty cool – for most people those two syllables were just a random jumble of letters. Hard to remember and hard to care about.

To celebrate, Fairytale have released a new trailer for the game: