• New monster: Harpy - a flying critter hungry for fresh human meat
• Balance: Increased cost of palisade
• Balance: Slightly decreased the speed of wheat harvest, assigning more than one person is now worth it
• Peasants now start the game at full health. I thought it more realistic if they aren't 100% fit, but it seems to confuse people and they think there's a deeper reason.
• Fireflies now have slighly different colours for different creatures
• More variety and colours in villager models
• Temporarily disabled Apple Silicon (M1 etc.) support so that macOS Intel works, waiting for a bugfix from upstream to re-enable it.
• Lumberjack and other workshops with assigned workers now display in the context menu how many work slots are filled
• Lumberjack (and soon other mannable buildings) now shows a status icon when nobody is assigned to it

[ 2021-10-23 20:26:00 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.