Welcome to my review of Forest Home, a cute puzzle game that is out now on Nintendo Switch!
Something’s gone wrong in the forest! All the animals are lost, and only you can guide them home.
Draw colorful paths that grow right beneath your finger to lead the forest critters to safety. Avoid obstacles, navigate bridges, and collect food in this cute & challenging puzzler. Just watch out for the mischievous goblin!
Forest Home is like the wolf in the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, it is a devilish game that seems to be sweet on the outside, but is actually quite the challenge to beat. Easy to play, but the higher you get in that massive amount of levels, the harder this game becomes and I mean it. Forest Home is a tough one!
At first, this game is easy. Move the animals back to their safety spots and all you need is a quick glance on how to make them pop out of the screen, The further you go, life in the forest gets a lot more serious.
More squares to fill in, because you do need more than just connected animal and yes, you need to have crossed by every single square on the playing field.
More animals, obviously! As you go, more and more animals are added and in the store, you can switch them out with others so you can play with your favourite animals!
More obstacles! Suddenly you will have bridges to consider! You need to cross below and on top of them, adding an even more fiendish solution you need to concoct! Obviously, you can just retrace all your steps, but where is the fun in that?
I had my fair share of hiccups while playing this game, not by choice but rather by design. Forest Home is played with the touchscreen or by using the Joy-Con, but obviously, touchscreen should be the weapon of choice! But this is also where my only hiccups happened!
I felt like I had to really keep my finger on the touchscreen until the very end of the animal getting to safety rather than just draw it out. No harm done, but I just had to replay some levels just to get a perfect score. The touch controls sometimes failed to register my input all the way through and this was on two separate switch consoles.
Once I got my gameplay system finessed towards keeping my finger all the way down, I also found out I could redo my steps without spending a “step”, just as long as my finger kept touching the screen. It made me get a few more perfect scores in 1 try instead of 2 or 3. I really liked figuring this out!
Then we got our boss battles and the Goblins, so many things in a childish package which makes it all the more fiendish. Do not underestimate the value of this game! There are tons of levels!
In conclusion, Forest Home is actually a great title, you would not expect it when you look at the graphics, but this was quite fun to play. I do love my puzzle games and this fits right in with my collection!
