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A group of travelers has awakened an Ancient Evil
Little do they know, some of those who travel among them have already been Corrupted.
Forsaken Forest is a team-oriented Social Deduction horror game set within a mysterious forest which has been warped by dark magic.
The goal of each player is to navigate to their team's hidden Destination, or to kill all of the opposing team's players. However, the Villagers begin the game without knowing who is actually on their team, or where their Destination is located within the forest.
The evil Forsaken have perfect information and will do anything to mislead their opponents.
On the path to victory, players will need to gather information, manage their resources, gain the trust of their fellow travelers, and fend off the evils of the night!
Just remember that not all who Wander are truly lost!
- Extremely fun to play
- Thematic and directed feel
- Cool art
- Can change game difficulty
- Fun even if not original
- Playing with 5 players with only two Forsaken wasn't great
- Playing with 12 players was just chaos
- villagers trying to find their way back to their village while avoiding being trapped by the Forsaken.
- a forest
- Werewolves
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Players draw cards and take actions by playing cards with either fast or slow keywords.
- Hidden Roles — Players are secretly assigned roles as either villagers or Forsaken.
- Movement — Players navigate the board by moving tokens adjacent to squares or other tokens.
- Player Elimination — Players can be eliminated, becoming ghosts who provide advice but take no other actions.
- Set Collection — Destination cards are made up of six dead ends, one village, and one void, which players help to place.
- Variable player powers — Artifacts can be found, providing either a finder's action or a group action.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The villagers are woken a forest they cannot remember how they got there but they instinctively know they need to get back to their village little do they know the Forsaken forest wants to keep them in its mob forever
- survive find the village and above all trust no one
- if landing here you'll uncover a powerful artifact
- it'll certainly set the mood as you'll have certain cars that will put players on trial giving it that witches of Salem feel sometimes
- The sweet spot for this game is around the eight to ten mark
- we give it a 7 point 5 out of 10