Watch “S3E13 - Black Forest,” a gameplay video for Black Forest from Current Plays Podcast on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Current Plays Podcast on YouTube:
This week on Current Plays, Jordan and Thomas venture into the Black Forest. Uwe Rosenberg’s 2024 update to Glass Road is a blend of brain-burning euro strategy and pastoral charm. True to form, it’s a game of careful timing, clever planning, and that signature Rosenberg tension that keeps every move deliciously tight.
The hosts dig into what makes Black Forest stand out: those brilliant resource wheels that spin the entire game into motion, the razor-sharp action economy, and the satisfying balance between personal engine-building and interactive play. Once again, the match came down to a perfect tie; proof that in the Black Forest, efficiency is everything and every move counts.
It’s classic Uwe: serene on the surface, savage underneath, and oh so satisfying to play.
Mostly reviews and playthroughs. Black Forest is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 27 reviews, 13 how-to-play guides, 17 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
1 - 4 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Black Forest, from BoardGameGeek:
In Black Forest, you start out with a small domain in need of new buildings and livestock. You'll travel from village to village, to enlist the aid of the best specialists. Exploiting the abilities of these specialists lets you collect resources, lay out new landscape tiles (e.g. ponds and fields), and build a variety of buildings, which come in four types. Choose the right buildings, place landscapes, fire up your glass production, and expand your domain.
Uwe Rosenberg's resource wheels, made famous in Glass Road (2013), return in Black Forest. Two resource wheels on your tableau help you keep track of your resources and production. Black Forest continues the story - as the name suggests - in the Black Forest. Among others, the main difference between the two games is the use of worker placement in Black Forest instead of simultaneous action selection.
A wide selection of buildings and their different effects offer many different paths to victory.
-description from the publisher
