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You are deep in a dark, ancient forest with only your lantern to guide you. Tall, looming trees cast shadows all around. Off in the distance you hear a faint rustling sound and your heart begins to race. Could the legend be true? Will you finally discover the creatures who hide in the forest shadows?
Shadows in the Forest is a thrilling, immersive play experience that brings a distinctive twist to game night - you play it in the dark! One player moves the lantern around in search of Shadowlings, mysterious creatures who avoid the light. The lantern illuminates the forest and trees, casting real shadows on the game board. The rest of the players work together, strategically moving their Shadowlings to stay out of the light in this innovative board game for kids and families.
If one of the Shadowlings is hit by a beam of light, he is enchanted and can no longer move. The other Shadowlings will try to free him again. To do this, they have to wait until the light has moved far enough away so that another dwarf can reach him in the shadows.
The Shadowlings all want to meet under a tree while the lantern tries to cast a spell on all of them. Who will win?
- Played in pitch dark for a unique experience
- Intriguing use of light and shadow mechanics
- Fun hide-and-seek gameplay
- Was a delightful surprise
- Provided a wonderful end to a trip
- Hide-and-seek in the dark
- Forest
- One vs. Many
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Movement — The seeker moves the lantern a number of spaces determined by a die roll.
- Cooperative Play (Hiders) — Hiders work together to get all meeples to one location.
- Deduction — The seeker tries to find the hidden meeples.
- Hidden Movement — Hiders move their meeples while the seeker is out of the room.
- Light/Shadow Mechanics — Players cannot move into the light cast by the seeker's lantern.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- April was crazy when it came to board games.
- I played a ton of new to me games, which was so much fun.
- Leaf has always been a game that has really intrigued me because it has such a cool mechanism with these different leaves that you're going to be able to play a card that'll then get you a specific leaf shape.
- And overall, it's such a simple game, but it is just so lovely.
- I am obsessed with this game. I really want to play this one solo.
- If you enjoy games where you are bumping tracks, this game right here is the ultimate bumping tracks game.
- This is such a good game. I am in love with this game.
- It revolves around this seven bridge theory or concept where there are seven different bridges and you can only go over a bridge once.
- And this game is a one versus many where the one player and very cool part of this game is you play it in the pitch dark. So fun.
- It has a very sketched kind of art style to it, which I've always loved. And that game is just so beautiful.
- And during this game, we were all just being so chaotic and just ending the game just like very abruptly and people just like not being prepared for it and just being chaotic and it was just the funniest thing.
- And this game really messed with my brain.
- Can't get enough of it. It's my most played game of April.
- And this one I did a preview for. is a solo only game from Salt and Pepper Games where you are running a bakery or bake shop and you're trying to achieve these different um customers orders by first folding this piece of pastry which I think is such a unique part of the game.
- Three Sisters is one of my favorite Roland rights.
- I'm so sorry that I decided to do 10 games for this video. I will try for future months to only stick to five so these videos aren't too crazy long, but I just could not not talk about all these games cuz I just had a great month of gaming.