One Deck Dungeon Forest of Shadows Adventure Co-op Dungeon Delve for 1-2 Players

Brave an overgrown, toxic wilderness in a brutal, pocket-sized cooperative survival challenge that utilizes a multi-use card matrix and a high-tension dice-placement engine for the ultimate roguelike dungeon crawl.

One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows (designed by Chris Cieslik and published by Asmadi Games) delivers a massive, punishing tactical dungeon crawl experience using just a single deck of cards and a handful of dice. Functioning as both a standalone game or a fully compatible expansion to the original One Deck Dungeon, this title trades dark stone corridors for a suffocating, canopy-covered wilderness. The core objective is an intense, rogue-lite survival sprint: one or two players select powerful female heroes and venture deep into an evolving forest deck, battling deadly plant life, dodging traps, and gathering loot across three floors to defeat a terrifying boss.

The primary strategic hurdle lies in optimizing your multi-colored dice pools under a harsh multi-use card economy and a new Poison mechanic. Every card in the forest deck represents a split decision: defeating an encounter allows you to slide that card under your character board to claim it permanently as an Experience point, an additional Item slot, a powerful Skill, or a new magic spell. When exploring a room, you roll strength, agility, and magic dice to cover up specific challenge boxes on the encounter card to avoid taking damage. Forest of Shadows drastically elevates the difficulty by introducing the Poison status effect—a creeping debuff that tracks tokens on your board, slowly chipping away at your health unless you expend valuable healing potions or dedicate agility dice to clear the toxin. It is a masterclass in tight, high-interaction gateway design that packs rogue-lite progression, resource mitigation, and a persistent campaign leveling sheet into a smooth 30-to-45 minute session.

Game Specs at a Glance:
Age Range: 14+ Years
Publisher: Asmadi Games
Play Time: 30-45 Minutes
Player Count: 1-2 Players
Complexity: Medium (Cooperative Play, Solitaire-Optimized, Dice Allocation, Multi-Use Cards, Stat Mitigation)

What's in the Box?

• 5 Unique Hero Character Cards
• 44 Forest Encounter and Boss Cards
• 30 Translucent Plastic Dice
• 1 Pack of Damage and Poison Tracking Tokens
• 1 Pad of Campaign Progression Character Sheets
• 1 Rules Booklet