Das Tal Is Now Known As The Exiled

It was easy to forget that Das Tal was but a working title, but it was. As of yesterday, that title is gone forever, having been replaced with the new title "The Exiled" by developer Fairytale Distillery.

The reasons for the change in title are as follows.

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 and hard to care about.

As a side-note, the website has been moved to a new domain to match the change in name. You can find the new website here.

What do you think of the new name?