On a dark colored number, a leader will draw a tile, inform the other players of which tile has been drawn, and all players will place that number tile in their individual forest. The game ends after everyone has placed their twenty tiles, then players score points based on the areas where they have monuments. Placing Tree tokens in your forests will increase their beauty and worth, and at the end of the game, the closed forests will reward you with even more points! We mainly cover Warhammer 40k, Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Warmachine, Hordes, X-Wing, Infinity, Horus Heresy, and Star Wars Armada.

After each player has placed all twenty tiles, the landscape creation is complete and based on the placement of the trees in relation to the completed circles, the player with the most points wins!It’s a quick and light game, that you can play in around 30 minutes and not feel too taxed afterwards. The game ends as soon as all players have placed their 19th tile, as indicated by the Architect, as well as any Tree tokens that might have been triggered.

Each player may take a tree of any color and add it anywhere on their board such that it’s clearly in a space matching its color. Each player counts up their points – full runes in the areas with tree tokens are counted, with those in closed areas counting double. As tiles are drawn, the color of number in the corner of the tile will determine the actions that must be taken. The Architect should remove 5 tiles from the stack and place them out of play without looking at them. Be careful not to mix up your unplayed World tiles with the ones you have already added to your Planet.Legendary Forests is a light tile placement game where players are given identical tiles and must compete to create a high scoring forest by placing tiles and scoring cards in the best possible way.

I have enjoyed bringing this game into the classroom to work on planning and decision-making skills. While the box recommends the game for ages 8+, we feel that even younger kids can enjoy a round or two as long as an adult is present to explain the rules. Additionally, one tree covers the entire species region – but you might still want to place a second tree in the same region just to prevent another player from having that color.

Example: In this example, the Tree token in the Closed L-shaped Pink Zone scores 8 victory points (4x2), because it has 4 Full- Runes. He is a contributor to The Dice Tower Podcast and has written for Games Trade Magazine and Meeple Monthly. That being said, one thing I love about Legendary Forests that I do not see in most tile placement games is the consistency between players’ tiles. For reference, this went on the shelf with Azul, Century: Golem, Space Base, Spirits of the Forest and Kingdomino as some current popular filler games.

The components themselves feel calming, they’re pretty and well-made, though it is a shame you never get to see the beautiful reverse side during gameplay.

At first, it felt a little strange that the Architect is ‘in charge’ but you quickly realise all players have equal opportunities. That said, it’s not that big of a deal, so I don’t really have a problem with increasing the player count. After going through the rules, I saw that it was going to be a simple game to learn, but one that would have some great competitive opportunities. Points are earned by creating whole runes on the forest floor, each tile has half a rune on each coloured edge and will need to join other tiles matching its colour to create full runes.