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DeveloperMacon Games
PublisherMacon Games
FreeNo
Required ageNone
A two-player duel of hidden fleets and outright lies. Secretly deploy planets, stations and stars on a 20x20 grid, then probe your rival's space from a 3D cockpit. Any report could be a False Report: bluff, scan and colonise until one civilisation is left.
Dark Forest is a turn-based duel of hidden information for two players. Think Battleship, except your opponent is allowed to lie.Hide your civilisationSpend your starting budget placing celestial bodies on a secret 20x20 grid: space junk and satellites, rockets and moons, planets and space stations, nebulae, asteroid belts, stars, a ringworld, an alien artifact and a Dyson Sphere. Each has its own shape, cost and population, and many unlock powers the moment you place them.Probe the darkTake turns probing your rival's space. Every probe reports a hit, a near miss or nothing at all. Hit every cell of a body to colonise it; colonise everything your rival owns to win.Trust nothingThe report you get is only what your opponent chose to tell you. A False Report turns a hit into a miss, or a miss into a hit. Report Scramble rewrites answers already given, and the Alien Artifact hides near misses. Keep track of what you think you know, and what you only think you know.Twelve powersBodies grant powers when placed or colonised: row, column and sensor-burst scans, double probes, advanced probes that name what you hit, currency generation and multipliers, extra probes bought with currency, and more.FeaturesOnline 1v1 over Steam: invite a friend, or use Quick Match to find an opponent
Local network and direct IP play
A 3D cockpit: your fleet, the enemy's reported grid and your powers on the ship's screens
18 Steam Achievements, each unlocking a trinket for your cockpit
Progress synced with Steam Cloud
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