Forever Home Strategy Board Game by Birdwood Games, for Family Night, Perfect for Dog Lovers, Kids & Adults, for 1-5 Players, Ages 10+

Played with the three of us was funny great for dog lovers and everyone

This is one of my favorite games, I love playing it, the artwork is super cute. Also reccoemnd Dog Park.

Quite a difficult game but great quality and a good challenge recommended for people who like something a bit different to run of the mill games

Got this at 50% off on prime day. Nice little gateway game

A beautiful game, the art work and quality is top notch, I did have a faulty bag but support at birdwood games are sending me a replacement.We tried a copy a friend had purchased at a games night, it is a great game, quite complicated to learn, but that makes it very clever and challenging.If you like games like Azul you will like this, I find it a step up from Azul.

love this game would highly reccomened got the whole family involved and was very easy to undertand the rules of the game. definetly a great laugh and worth the buy.

Forever home is Birdwood games second board game after Dog Park. As the name should tell you, both games are heavily themed with dogs in mind.Forever Home places you as a rescue organisation. The theming is you are training and socialising the dogs to send to one of four homes, each with changing characteristics per game to mix up the strategy. In practice however the dog element is pure filler and has no effect on the gameplay. The game most similar I have personally played would be Azul, just in terms of pattern creation.Unlike Dog Park, forever home is a simpler affair to play. I read through the brief rules twice and was good to go and start playing. The game listing states 10+, but more mature 8 year olds could grasp the concept of the game and play as a family. It's a pretty chill and relaxed game too, so it leaves little for confrontation around a table!The artwork is beautiful, charming and clear. Cardstock is of great quality and just even down to having a scorepad (which isn't really necessary) makes the game scream quality from the get go.Unfortunately I found the writing on the playing boards to be a bit too small. Especially on the commandations board I really had to focus on that first play through to see which section each dog was placed in.As a two player game it wizzes by. I get the feeling that it would play as a more engaging and strategic playthrough with three or more players. I have not tried the solo mode, but I appreciate it's inclusion.I feel like this would be a regular on the table, if only I could get a group together regularly enough to do so. None the less I think it's a lovely, light game, with enough complexity to draw advanced players without alienating newcomers to the hobby.

We don't have a family pet of any kind, so I wondered if this would hold our interest.As it happens, yes, it did and testament to this is that I completely forgot to take photographs of the game in progress. Really, it's a strategic game of making patterns and completing sets, with dogs as a nice theme for the various cards and tokens. Don't be too quick to think it might not be aimed at you if you are not a dog lover.After two reads through of the rules we started a family game of four people including a 7 year old. A big plus for this game is how simple it is to pick up. My seven year old was completing training cards and strategising well enough to come second in the first game we ever played. During your turn you have three moves you can choose from to proceed in your goal of matching patterns in order to "train" and re-home your dogs. Pulling dog types and training cards from the deck adds a random element but the rules try to add fairness by making sure everyone gets the same number of moves and nobody is disadvantaged by the turn order.Your aim is to place your completed counters (i.e. house dogs) in such a way that you get the most points according to the randomised starting setup. The final points calculation is the most complicated part, but playing your first game will give you an understanding of how it works. Boiling it right down you can either lean towards complex training patterns or else high volume, strategic "Forever Homing" to gain your points.Overall we all enjoyed this and found it to be a great family game so my boys said it should get 4 or 5 starsIn view of its:-quick learning curve and simple strategy element-potential for playing the more complicated advanced mode-ability to draw us in without being dog lovers-games that don't last an excessive amount of time (about 40 mins)I'm giving it five stars