Black Forest

Pros

• Go look for a video of a high end exterior door producer, I think there are some recent-ish ones from Black Forest in Canada. The process is fairly complex but there is a reason for it.
• Black Forest (more open/sandboxy, relatively rules light). Both play well at all their player counts and don’t have/require expansions
• Owned both. Prefer Black Forest and that’s the one I still own. I would happily play Glass Road four player all day long. But it don’t quite scratch enough of an itch two player. Black Forest does that.
• Black Forest feel grander, less directly interactive, and a bit more crunchy. You're doing some planning over where to move to next, which buildings to go for, with a bit heavier resource management. It feels more meandering and broadly...
• I prefer the moving around the board and jobs in black Forest. Glass road felt a little tighter of a game.

Cons

• I just gave Black Forest away to a friend because after playing both... my husband and I prefer Glass Road. The added complexity of Black Forest (and the somewhat annoying randomness of the jobs system) was less appealing to us.
• A game with very little arc, as SU&SD said,a meander through the forest. They liked it, we didn't. Two plays, sold.
• Black Forest is huge. You need a giant table. The rules of the game aren't too complicated - but there are a lot of buildings with special abilities, and you have to read them every time. It is very easy to have analysis paralysis. The r...