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Black Forest
Developer Lemuria
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge? From the Steam store page
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60 of 76 · most liked firstThis game seemed fine at first and I enjoyed what I played of the tutorial. However, gameplay was a little frustrating when monsters appeared at night and wiped out numerous food sources and other buildings. I also thought it was odd that I couldn't manually save. It's supposed to save automatically each morning. However, I played for a while and then when I returned a couple of days later there was no way to continue where I left off. I had to restart all over again. When I play games like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game, but holy hell is it ever the Dark Souls of a survival builder. The mini-scenarios that you can change the difficulty on are fun the play around with and quite do-able. But the main campaign is damn near impossible. The enemies attack too early, too often, and too heavily for you to do more than frantically paddle while barely treading water. You are barely able to get anything set up before being first attacked, and from that point the attacks are relentless -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So @alwysfree.bsky.social and @pup-buddy.bsky.social bought Black Forest, the sequel to Glass Road. We played it for the first time, and I won! Really fun. Board games are good.
unlabelledView post →I once got (playfully) scolded by a boardgame designer for claiming that 'the more boring the theme, the better the game'. It's obviously an exaggeration, but... kinda true? Brass, Power Grid, Agricola, Pipeline, My Village, Autobahn, Black Forest... all rather dry themes, all great games.
unlabelledView post →As some of you might know from the other place, I'm a massive Uwe Rosenberg fan. Got his new game Black Forest to the table today 😀
unlabelledView post →The game is too difficult, there is constant attacks night by night, Rangers and archers are useless. it takes way more time to build or rebuild the structures than to be destroyed by the monsters and animals. there is potential here but the challenge is so high that is disencouraging. I won't play again until full release.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →18 plus out to game tonight at Meta-Games Unlimited for Thursday Game Night. New shiny, big crunchy, and some just classic card games. Games played - Innovation - Jungo - Black Forest - Wyrmspan (2x) - Seaside - Twinkle Twinkle - Tiger and Dragon - Hot Streak - Classic card games #BoardGames
unlabelledView post →I've been playing a lot of cookie run lately! Here's Black Forest Cookie (I didn't get her in game 😭) [ #crk #쿠키런 #クッキーラン ]
unlabelledView post →Played Black Forest today. This is a game that takes a few rounds to get anything meaningful happening but I find becomes more fun in the last half of the game once your engine and the jobs are giving you some focused direction.
unlabelledView post →The game's promising so far, but I think the description of the buildings could use some fine tuning to help avoid player frustration. I rage quit a couple times and only kept trying to improve my gameplay because I'm stubborn. - Housing tiers: there isn't enough cost-benefit reward for building better housing. A stone house will get knocked down by a 3-5 kobolds nearly as easily as a regular old hut even though they take upwards of 2-4x the time, resources, and people to build. When I first…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →all the tavern jobs are useless, everything that is built is destroyed every night, this game only builds during the day and is destroyed at night
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't even know where to start on this. Game mechanics aren't there. The outline for what the game wants to be is there, but is poorly executed. "Guards" constantly get stuck on buildings or in a fight animation loop that makes them worthless. Being able to only hire 2 guards and 2 archers when the game wants to send 14 wolves, 6 rats, a bear and a troll at you makes them worthless. This should be delegated to the population while being able to hire mercenaries. Game functionality is clunky,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Kiddos have e learning tomorrow so we got to stay up and play age of empires together. I really am blessed to be able to play a game with my kids that I started playing when I was their age. Tonight we crushed the Seljuk Turks on a Black Forest map.
unlabelledView post →Played my 2nd game (solo) of Black Forest and ended with 44 points. This game is so solid and enjoyable. Such a great puzzle. #BoardGames
unlabelledView post →The Curse of Rabenstein (2025) by Stefan Vogt for Sinclair QL. Lost in the Black Forest, your coachman vanishes and the night closes in. A modern graphic adventure that nods to Level 9 classics. 🎁 8bitgames.itch.io/rabenstein #homebrew #sinclairql #retro #game #thecurseofrabenstein
unlabelledView post →Played Black Forest last night & bloody hell it's good. Glass Road is a great game but for my group it needed a bit more crunch & Black Forest elevates its mechanisms amazingly. Managing that wheel whilst also using the worker placement and building your estate creates a fiendish puzzle #boardgames
unlabelledView post →Last night, I played Black Forest, a recent Uwe Rosenberg game. Like most Rosenbergs, it was mainly inspired by his own game, in this case Glass Road. 🧵
unlabelledView post →This game is just to much. Way to hard. It's a good concept, but the dev has no clue how to do it right. Been playing building games for years and this is the worst one yet. The difficulty settings makes no difference at all. Went from free to a paid game with no changes to make it worth buying. Skip this one people. Wasn't worth it when it was free.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After a break, we played Skyrise (which had an interestingly narrowing auction focus as the game continued on), then R-Eco+ (a super wild small box Japanese game about recycling), and the Black Forest (with wine). All lovely!
unlabelledView post →Quick summary: ===Graphics=== ☐Mind-blowing ☐Beautiful ☐Good ☑Okay ☐Bad ☐Abysmal ===Usability=== ☐A monkey can figure this out ☑Good ☐Bad ☐Horrible ===PC Requirements=== ☐Hamster powered ☑Decent ☑Fast ☐Expensive ☐NASA computer ===Game Difficulty=== ☐Easy ☐Normal ☑Hard ☐Extremely difficult ☐Dark Souls ===Grind=== ☐0 grind ☐Only if you care about the leader-board ☐You need it to progress ☑Doesn't stop ☐Way too much ☐Just go do something else with your time ===Tutorial=== ☐Perfect for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I forgot but this was my #boardgamehaul from my trip to Hong Kong two weeks ago. Only one game was bought there, whereas the rest were brought by a friend from the US to HK. I’m glad to add Black Forest back and finally complete my Return to Dark Tower collection (Coffers 1 and 2 not pictured)
unlabelledView post →I first started playing this game in late December of 2021 when it was a free "Early Access" game. I only played it about three weeks, then gave up and uninstalled it because of all the bugs. It was, hands down, the buggiest game I've ever played on Steam. I finally installed it again about ten weeks ago in order to give it another try. Surely it's a finely-polished game by now. Nope. Nothing's changed in that regard. I've come across at least fifteen different bugs in the last ten weeks…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could of been a great game. Very limited on what you can do. Either you play the few scenario's they give you that you don't have time to defend or build anything. I get making it hard but you can't even enjoy building and doing anything before you get attacked. You build wood walls and wolfs run right through them and break them you have to build so much but it doesn't matter every night things come to destroy them before you can even build things to defend and the things you can build are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, this is currently a free game - That said, I have no issue with the simple graphics. They're rather expected for the game type. I went so far as the potential troll attack in the tutorial before I got frustrated with the slow un-intuitive building and controls. The mouse wheel is slow and clunky, and pans the camera at an angle instead of zooming in and out, and seems to like to stick. Building anything can't be a planned out action, as you can't even out line walls, fields, etc.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Serious Work needed... I don't understand the VERY POSITIVE reviews, what are you all on? A lack of combat is one issue I have, the inability to stop invasions is another. Raided by goblins in the night, burning buildings down and stealing things BUT NO PEASANT WILL FIGHT THEM??? Yeah cause people just sleep through the night ignoring an attacking horde. They have farm and construction tools but won't use them as weapons... Got a depo built the 2nd day that night the goblins burned it to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This review is for the free, incomplete early access game. As such, it seems bug-free, so far. I've only been playing it for about ten hours, but I can say I'm finding it surprisingly enjoyable (I say "surprisingly", because I expected to be bored to tears by yet another 'Banished' / 'Settlers' / 'Ostriv' style game.) Black Forest is different enough to bring some fresh interest for me. It's simple, and has some unique aspects, including the addition of various nocturnal monsters and ravagers…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another fantastic game of Black Forest on Friday night. I went for an animal strategy and did OK, but I couldn't quite get my engine built. My mate did better and won 60-48. Second play of it and it's getting better each time. Possibly may become my second favourite Uwe #boardgames
unlabelledView post →Took my son with me to play games at our FLGS. He and I tag teamed in a 3 player game of Black Forest. Then we played Jurassic Park III. My son played as the Dinos and won. We finished the night with a two player game of King of the Dice. Fun games and a good time with my son. #boardgames
unlabelledView post →Overall i liked the game. I like the dark atmosphere and different creatures that attack you. But they attack you constantly and destroy your buildings. It's not a game that you play to relax it is frustrating most of the time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My friends got me hooked on this game so… here’s a wip ☺️ Black Forest Cookie is so pretty #CRK #CookieRunKingdom #CRKFanart #Fanart #Artwork #Digitalart
unlabelledView post →Just Chatting | Demo Day! - Bloody Typers & Oompavilles Black Forest! Maybe Signalis!? www.twitch.tv/hermesmythos
unlabelledView post →I don't really like giving a negative review, but in all honesty the game feels very far from complete, I wouldn't recommend the game in it's current state. On another note, the concept of the game is very cool, I really like the idea.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Embracer is cutting 50% of the workforce at Black Forest Games - the team behind the Destroy All Humans remakes. No word on the status of its TMNT: The Last Ronin game that was in development there: www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/74262/r...
unlabelledView post →Every game of Mausritter I've played has been English country-garden mice or 1920's American farmland mice or Black Forest "I want out of this fairytale, I am not old enough for this" mice. I want to do Sumatran jungle Mausritter and see if I can't work a sagacious Orangutan ally in there somewhere
unlabelledView post →I only found this game because of your presentation at the Vienna Gamedev Meetup. I'd never have seen it on steam, as that's not a channel I am very active at. I hope you really won't get taken advantage of by a publisher and I hope I will see you visiting another Meetup too, bc. It'd be cool talking. I also will share this on my social media account, that more people see it. To make it short I think this is an easy recommendation for a free game, for the free tag it is extremely solid and I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I managed to keep my Summer sale budget under a fiver. I got more Hexcells, as I loved the first game; someone on here recommended Black Forest, which looks intriguing; and of course, Rygar! Sorry, Ryse: Son Of Rome! Time to Ryse to the occasion and finally start acting like a Man! #blutoid
unlabelledView post →I wonder what happened with that Ninja Turtles game. It was announced three years ago by THQ and developed by Black Forest, the studio that remade the Destroy All Humans games. Now THQ is gone and Platinum is making it? #blutoid
unlabelledView post →Shit’s getting real we got resources on wheels (Game is Black Forest, fabulous worker movement buildy farmy times)
unlabelledView post →Black Forest Lab Retreat! Great hikes, exploding kittens* and milk-washed cocktails. *The card game
unlabelledView post →Heya folks, here's a 1st short featuring Tales of the Black Forest by 拾英工作室 and SakuraGame. This is an RPGMaker horror game that I picked up quite a while ago but have never completed. This was the replacement for NOX. #talesoftheblackforest #videogames #indiegames #horrorgames #shorts
unlabelledView post →My wife knows I love games and picked up this Black Forest-themed game for a birthday present at one of the many Christmas Markets she's gone to. Sure, it's only Aggravation, but it was so sweet for her to think of me! I am going to be playing as the Black Forest Cake, for sure!
unlabelledView post →Scott and I played a 2p game of Black Forest in 40 minutes tonight So smooth and quick with a tight finish Really enjoying this one so far, although spending 15 minutes to setup a game that plays for 40 is kind of weird
unlabelledView post →I am thoroughly impressed by Black Forest. The game's unique focus on defense and survival creates an intense and immersive experience. The strategic depth required to manage resources, make tough decisions, and fend off relentless creatures keeps you constantly engaged. The robust simulation features add layers of complexity that make each playthrough unique. Highly recommended for fans of city-building and survival games who are looking for a fresh and challenging experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On my way to #UKGE with a note on my phone reading... Hegemony Rebirth Arkham Horror the Card Game Huang Black Forest Quest for El Dorado? Crokinole Something to do with Dune. #boardgames
unlabelledView post →Streaming a new game at 7pm CST today called Tales of the Black Forest! Haven't played a story based horror rpg maker game in a while so this will be fun (and not terribly sad lol)! #talesoftheblackforest #rpgmaker #horrorgame #pngtuber #twitch www.twitch.tv/newsboicap
unlabelledView post →The player boards in Black Forest came horribly warped. Using another Rosenberg game to try and fix that...
unlabelledView post →Black Forest is a great example of the Euro genre of games - after all, it was designed by the legendary Uwe Rosenberg! In this video, we will play a full game at a 3 player count. Enjoy, and let us know what you think about this one! @capstonegames youtu.be/OD4AE7l1g44
unlabelledView post →After Black Forest, Matt arrived and we played a quick game of Marvel Remix It's a quick hand builder that actually feels thematic I like building the little scoring combos Scott and I tied for the win and hit to share the victory, haha
unlabelledView post →With a brutal learning curve and an unstable rate of gaining villagers, this game's storyline is a rough start, but its still very satisfying to survive.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is weird and buggy. Doesn't matter what I have done, game was just punishing me. There is no scaling, with each day you get more monsters attacking your village and fewer villagers as they die. Wooden or stone walls, doesn't matter they will get destroyed or even walked through (bug). No time to gather resources because your reinforcements are building 2 days. What is funny, game has pretty bad graphics, worse than many games I play, but GPU runs on max???
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ in 2006 for PS2 and Xbox, this game is currently available on the PS Store via backwards compatibility. A remake subtitled "reprobed" was developed by Black Forest Games and published by THQ Nordic, and ita still available as well.
unlabelledView post →Just played Black Forest. This game kicks ass. Honestly one of my favorite Uwe Rosenbergs. Best quality? Extremely deep while also being quick fast and snappy. Resists analysis paralysis. We finished a game in less than an hour. Worst quality: Box art. It's ass capstone-games.com/board-games/...
unlabelledView post →Black Forest, work in progress game for #Atari7800 console forums.atariage.com/topic/377834... #atari #retrogames #retrogaming
unlabelledView post →I must have picked this game up when it was still free because it doesn't show up in my purchase history, but I don't remember when. I came across it in my library, sitting there untouched, and decided to give it a try. It's an interesting game concept, and I appreciate the developer's originality here. The tutorial is mind-numbingly boring so I gave up on it after half an hour or so and just started an easy scenario. I had learned enough from the tutorial at that point to fumble my way through…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is quite interesting so far! I do like the mechanics for the most part, though in some cases they're a little clunky or not well thought out. For example, there are often monster raids during the night, but walls are too expensive to build. You have a limited number of peasants to manage, and a lot of them are locked in to work on walls for a very long time, often unable to finish the walls before raids occur. As such, some buildings get wrecked, need repairing and so the peasants…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For the Destroy All Humans! remake (2020) Black Forest Games did an impressive work to bring back the atmosphere of the 2005 original game. Here's an example with the "Blue Moon Drive-In" and "Bran Biscuits" billboards.
unlabelledView post →We started Tales of the Black Forest tonight and omg what an amazing RPG Maker horror game! The story is interesting and the characters are wonderful! I found myself laughing at how cute they are! It’s such a great super affordable game!
unlabelledView post →partner's bday weekend includes: -couples massage -5h board game (clank 2 ep3) -Coop's and FQ -Haydel's Black Forest Cake -home made scrapple breakfast -home made fried chicken and Mac and cheese dinner -bday party for friend's 1yo born one day before -Destiny 2 with her best friend in MD
unlabelledView post →I'm a sucker for an Uwe Rosenberg game, and I've been waiting to try Kanal. One game in and I like it a lot. Glass Road didn't quite click for me, but Kanal keeps the same resource wheel of GR and Black Forest and opens the card/building market right up. Activating the buildings is clever too.
unlabelledView post →In 30 minutes! I'm back! Twitch.tv/doshiprime No longer lost in the Black Forest of Germany! Heavensward Tier List with my friend Bears - chats choice on game! BALATRO - MH Wild - Hollow Knight?
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