Living Forest (Danish) - Game of the Year 2022

4 nature spirits - winter, spring, summer, and autumn, have been summoned to save the sacred tree of the forest, which is facing the destructive flames of Onibi.

In Living Forest, you play as a nature spirit trying to save the forest and its sacred tree from the flames of Onibi.

But you are not alone in your mission, as the guardian animals have come together to help you. Each turn they provide you with valuable elements, so it is up to you to combine your team of guardian animals as best as possible to perform various actions - but you must be careful, as some guardians work best alone.

How to play Living Forest:

Each turn is divided into 3 phases:

1. Guardian Animals: all guardian animals are played at the same time. You draw a card from your deck and turn it face up - this creates your helper line. You can stop drawing cards whenever you want. If you draw a card with a third solitary symbol, you must stop drawing cards. This closes your helper line.
2. Action: The nature spirits take turns. If your helper line has less than 3 solitary symbols, you can perform 2 different actions. If your helper line has 3 symbols, you can only perform 1 action. How good your actions are is determined by the number of elements visible on your guardian animals and on your player board.
3. End of the turn.
1. You are attacked by Onibi. If there is still fire in the center of the spirit circle, and you cannot resist them - you receive as many Fire Varan cards to your discard pile as there are fire pieces.
2. Onibi attacks the sacred tree. Add as many fire pieces to the center of the spirit circle as there were guardian animals drawn this turn.
3. New cards are drawn for the guardian animal reserve. The number of cards is determined by the level and how many cards were taken in that turn.
4. Pass the sacred tree to the next nature spirit - clockwise.
5. Move all your guardian animal cards from your helper line to your personal discard pile.

The game ends when one of the nature spirits has managed to collect either 12 different protective trees, 12 fire pieces, or 12 sacred flowers.