About Forest Trails, from BoardGameGeek:
As forest developer, your role is to improve the visitor experience and attract as many people as you can to come and enjoy the beautiful forest. How many visitors can you attract?
An engaging, role and write game where players will take on the roll of Forest Developer and design and map out interesting forest trails, take visitors past scenic view points and carry out surveys to find out what facilities visitors require to keep people coming back.
Game Play
Trail parts (start or end markers, paths etc) and the type of trail to draw are chosen from options revealed through 2 dice rolls. Map out trails that will appeal to 4 types of visitor (4 different coloured route types) and fit in as many trails as you can on your forest map.
Surveys of visitors along partly finished (or finished) trails will enable you to discover what visitors need and keep them coming back.
Reach a build point along your survey track and you can add a facility building. These attract even more visitors who you can survey again to improve facilities even more. Watch your score build up as you try to fit in up to three types of buildings for each path type. This engine building, puzzle system enables rewarding strategies to be discovered for higher points.
Points (visitor points) are earned by the length of trails, what building / facilities they have on them and what objectives have been met.
Discover new maps and new ways to optimize trails. Play as 1 of 4 different characters. Each character role, such as Forest Educator, has unique bonus abilities / actions, objectives and end game visitor bonus point achievements.
-description from designer
