• Peasants now write a diary of their personal events, to make it easier to track what happened
• Better peasants list display, with buttons to show home, peasant and diary
• SAVE & LOAD are now availabler per-level, i.e. you can quit playing, go play another level, then continue the previous one. Each level has its own savegame slot now.
• Fixed rat behaviour (they were disappearing for no reason)
• Illuminated Friedmarkt
• Market now has limited supply of goods
• Loaded games should now correctly display the day immediately
• Save games are now encrypted to make it more difficult to mess with them

[ 2021-12-15 21:15:14 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.