• UPDATED GAME ENGINE - this might cause some unexpected bugs, please report in the Steam discussion forum if anything breaks.
• Fixed manual pages navigation
• Families can now be childless
• Game now pauses if you task-switch away from it
• Game now has different difficulty levels
• New level added: Karenfang - a river-side lengthy village with a church you need to defend
• New level variation for the test level: easy and hard difficulty
• More variation in models for houses
• Applied a bunch of performance optimizations to the buildings (not yet all of them)
• Better description for buildings not yet implemented
• Better description and placeholder image for levels not yet implemented
• Better visual indication of which fields are ready to harvest (they now turn yellow when ready to harvest, not the day before)
• Added little indicators so people don't miss that you can rotate buildings with Q and E
• Started work on functionality to save and load games (very early and incomplete, not enabled in the public version)

[ 2021-10-07 18:18:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Black Forest is a turn-based multiplayer game about cooperation and betrayl. A strategy, resource-management game about survival. It is set in the forest of the same name in medieval Germany. It is a casual game, meaning that you will spend anywhere from a few minutes to maybe half an hour on it per day.

In the game, each player controls one family in a village that is located deep in the forest. Everyone tries to survive the wolves, bears and worse that come at night. Plant and harvest, gather and build, cooperate and betray. Survive as a community, but do not forget about yourself. Try to survive the coming winter to win the game. Or simply be the last survivor to gain a personal victory.

The core element of the game is cooperation and its limits. At some point, you have to think of yourself first. If your community is strong, others will help you. But the forest will sooner or later overwhelm you all - when will cooperation break down? Will people betray openly, or trick? Is that proposal a trick maybe, or really the best? What role will common ground play? Does the village provide shelter for those who lost their homes? Do you share resources or keep them private? All of these and many other questions will be asked and answered in every game.