There's a lot to like about the very impressive Forest Shuffle, but it's a little too complicated and not as balanced as it should be.
was such a remarkable game when it first appeared was that despite containing a huge number of cards with distinct scoring rules, it still felt fairly balanced. Even now, four-plus years after it first appeared, there are just four cards in the deck of 170 that players have decided are too powerful, although you can still play with them and just accept that whoever gets those cards might have a small advantage.
All of the other cards contain two images on them, with a line dividing them top from bottom or left from right. When you play one of these cards, you pay the cost and then slide the card halfway under a tree in your tableau. The visible half is what counts for scoring or other in-game powers. There’s a wide variety of card types/colors, scoring, and abilities in the deck, but the most notable part is how much cards’ scoring and/or powers depend on what else is in your tableau.
On your turn, you must play a card or draw two cards. You can draw from the deck or take cards from the ‘market,’ which can contain up to 10 cards and includes all of the cards players have used to pay the costs for other cards, as well as one card from the deck every time a tree is played. When the market has 10 or more cards, they’re all discarded.
I do have some questions about how balanced the game is for two players, which is the way I’ve played it the most. There’s good balance in, but with just two players, it might be a little too easy for one player to monopolize a card type, or crush one specific strategy, whereas with three or more it’s both harder for one player to get most or all of the cards they need and more likely that two players will try to go after the same thing.
The game ends when three winter cards appear from the deck; you start the game by dividing the deck into thirds, shuffling those winter cards into one pile, then restacking them so the winter cards are all in the bottom third. Game length and time are thus quite variable, as are winning scores, which can range from the mid-100s into the 400s—which is the one other flaw in the game. This is not an easy game to score, not while you’re playing and not at the end.
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