If you have two or more in a set, you can trade them in for foraging sticks that will let you explore a greater proportion of the forest ahead.

These are acquired in exactly the same way as your mushrooms, suggesting forcefully you’re stealing stuff directly out of kitchens as you saunter past.The forest floor “evolves” with every turn, with a card entering the “decay” pile once per turn – this effectively acts as the forests reduced section, offering you the chance to pick up more than one card, but it’s only available when there are four or less cards in it. This set is a fixed assortment of 120 cards for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle – 33 library cards and 87 crypt cards of clans Brujah, Gangrel, Malkavian and Nosferatu. Sometimes you pick up a moon card, and this permits you to draw a card from the ‘night deck’ – these are otherwise normal mushrooms that count for two when you fry or sell them. The leaflet is colourful, and each section is distinguished by a different coloured background (all of which are based on the game’s five colours of cards—neat!

There is always the same set amount of mushrooms, so it is important to keep in mind the remaining cards, and what has disappeared from the game through decay. Each type of mushroom is numbered based on its flavour and exchange value (for sticks) – however, the higher the value, the rarer the mushroom, which means there is limited availability as the draw pile runs low.For instance, in Wingspan each player develops a separate board, while Undergrove is a shared tableau game. We’ll find ourselves regretting our early optimism as valuable mushrooms we really wanted end up being picked by our opponent because situations demanded we picked something else.

The feet represents the ‘immediate area’ of the forest and the two cards in front of the feet are free for anyone to draw if they want to pick one up. If you like party games, this is the one to read – a feature straight from our special issue of Tabletop Gaming Magazine giving you the top 50 party games ever.The game comes in a small, round container with 60 cards, 35 point tokens, and an instructions sheet inside. They mention that it's a set of cards, so it' s very compact to transport, and can be taken with you anywhere.