![]() ![]() Again this isn’t a big deal for me especially as the rules are so simple that within 5 rounds I had all the cards fully memorised and didn’t need to do it any more. ![]() On top of that when I first started the game and was still getting used to the abilities on cards I found the hold to expand the card to be very hit and miss especially as my opponent was playing. Controls are drag and drop throughout which as always is very intuitive with board game apps and they work fine, although I did have a few issues early on with the specificity of the area I needed to drag the card to play it, a few times I missed the play area fractionally and had to redrag my card, not a huge issue but one that I did notice a few times. THE FOX IN THE FOREST CARD GAME FULLIt’s a game full of animations and colourful pieces on screen that not only look good but provide you easily with all the information you need at a glance. ![]() They look great, everything is slick and colourful and they’ve managed to inject some much needed excitement to what is quite basic card game on the table. As usual the presentation is excellent, Dire Wolf Digital have long been the best in the business when it comes to providing blockbuster visuals on all of their games. When it comes to the adaptation by Dire Wolf Digital for the app version of The Fox in the Forest it’s very much exactly as you would expect from them in both the good and the bad. The game plays until a player reaches 21 points (which can be altered for longer or shorter games) and so it can play out over a number of rounds depending on how many points are scored from the decree as well as bonus points coming from the card abilities. There are countless ways in which you can be pushed over the threshold which is why I think The Fox in the Forest works as a game and why it’s able to stand on it’s own despite it being a well trodden path before it. You may see carefully timed switching of the trump suit leaving you with a hand full of powerful trump cards you really didn’t want to win. Pushing out too hard and winning so many tricks early on in a round might open the door to an opponent intentionally losing in order to make you go over the 9 trick mark and end up with no points for the round. The most points are earned in The Fox in the Forest for gaining 0-3 tricks or between 7-9 tricks (which a lower score available for 4-8 tricks won) and as such you either want to win the most tricks but never more than 9 or the least tricks which leads to some really interesting gameplay and some pretty tense moments. However where this game flips this is the notion that you can win too many tricks and end up with zero points. In normal trick taking games you want to take as many tricks as you can and you score more points for more tricks taken. However for me it’s not these card abilities which provide the most interesting wrinkle to The Fox in the Forest as a trick taking game but is in fact how points are determined after each round of play. These abilities range from forcing your opponent to play specific cards leading you to win the trick as well as providing you with valuable knowledge of what cards they might have in their hand, to switching out cards in your hand or even changing the suit which is the trump suit for the round. These cards range from 1 to 11 with the odd numbered cards also containing unique abilities which are triggered when the card is played into a trick. In The Fox in the Forest players start with a hand of 13 from 3 different suits, one of which is selected to be the trump suit. The Fox in the Forest follows this same path of trick taking however adds enough wrinkles to make it stand on it’s own as a game as well as making it work well as a 2 player game. It’s a mechanism you will probably recognise from games like Bridge, Whist or Hearts. Normal trick taking games turns usually play out with one player leading the trick by selecting one of their cards and the opponent playing a card matching that suit if they can the player who played the highest card wins the trick and the player who wins the most tricks by the end of the hand of cards wins the game or score points depending on the game. While it’s rules are simple it has a few (excuse the pun) tricks up it’s sleeve with some special powers as well as a core game mechanic which makes this two player card game feel fresh and interesting despite it’s well worn path. The Fox in the Forest is a trick taking card game brought to the digital tabletop by Dire Wolf Digital (the team who brought you games like Sagrada and Root). Does this card game have enough tricks up it’s sleeve to excite you? ![]()
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