Bearicades (2017)

About this game

Description from the publisher: THE FOREST IS UNDER ATTACK, AND ONLY YOU CAN SAVE IT! The evil LUMBERCO wants to cut down protected forests! These lumberjacks will STOMP, DYNAMITE, and SNEAK through a forest to make room for their big, bad bulldozers and tree-chopping chainsaws! Only the forest animals and their friends can stop them now! As the forest animals, players setup BEARICADES and recruit PREDATORS (like The Cougar, The Bat, or The Wolf Pack), to defend against the incoming hordes of lumberjacks. It’s SURVIVAL OF THE FOREST – use guile, strategy, and power of the forest creatures to save your forest. An environmentally contentious card game for 2 to 4 players.

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 2.0/5 this is a mid-weight game — expect a proper rules explanation before you start.
• Age. The publisher suggests 13 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.