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The Fox in the Forest – Card Game Review
The Fox in the Forest is a Card/Board game from Dire Wolf Digital LLC, first launched in 18th October 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 46+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes The Fox in the Forest Stand Out
The Fox in the Forest is a beautifully illustrated trick-taking card game for 2 players.Use special abilities and take tricks to win, but don't get greedy! Win too many tricks, and you might become the villain of your fairy tale…
Once upon a time, a woodcutter and his daughter lived in a small village bordering the forest. She had traveled with him and had seen him speak with the forest animals…
Fairy Tale Characters
The Queen decreed that whoever defeated the monsters would be granted half the kingdom in reward. With the help of the woodcutter, swan, fox, monarch you will be able to collect treasures and gain the Witch's trust.
Trick-Taking Card Game
A trick-taking game for 2 players, each playing cards to win tricks against the other over multiple rounds. Players score points during a round depending on how many tricks they end of taking at the end of the round. Most points at the end wins.
Special Characters
All the odd ranked cards have special abilities printed on them. These cards change up the game play and might determine who the winner will be, or who leads the next trick. They are critical to you gaining treasures.
Dynamic 2 player Card Game
Variable length to the game by predetermining what score will end the game. Play 13 cards each round and plan your plays cunningly to score you the most points possible.
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, The Fox in the Forest is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
General bug fixes and compatibility updates.
Download & Availability
The Fox in the Forest is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get The Fox in the Forest on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Been playing for several years now. This is one of our favorite game apps of all time. The community is great.
This game is wonderful, a great twist on the trick-taking genre. We usually dont play landscape-oriented games, but this plays so well we made an exception. Its easy to learn, the tutorial is great, and the written rules are clear. Its good on battery considering the animations, and the UI is smooth as can be and intuitive. We do wish that when you hold on a card to make it bigger, it would be even a little bigger, the text is still pretty small. Even better would be if you didnt have to hold it, you could just click once, then again to dismiss it after reading. Although the text is small, because you learn the rules and card types very quickly, you dont even need to refer to the text any longer, so at that point the small text is no problem. We see the last update made the AI better, so as long as thats indeed the fact as we continue playing solo, this wonderful game will be staying on our phone. You did a great job developers for a very fair price with no ads or IAP. Thank you so much! This will be one of our go-to games when we want to relax now.
We love the original game, but this is somewhat lacking. First, as reported by other users, when you tap and hold a small card, it shows a full-size card image. Unfortunately, the programmers dropped the ball, and the big card often vanishes with the slightest finger wobble. Programming hint: do NOT dismiss the big card at the start of the drag event. Note the position of the small card before the drag, and dismiss the big card only after the small card has moved some minimum X left or right or some minimum Y up or down. Please dont make those of us without the hands of brain surgeons wonder what the full-size cards look like. Next, please consider an option to reduce the animations. They are more blinky than beautiful. We have some visual impairment, so the fact that so many thing whirl, blink, and flash is not fun for us. We are saddened that the brilliant art of the physical game has been relegated to small icons and brief pop ups. The current look of the game has moved away from refinement and toward the bombastic. As a minor change, the coloration of the trick wheel is puzzling. The yellows are the highest scores, the green is mediocre. In stoplight fashion, we would think green is good, yellow is warning, and red is full stop (do not enter). This will be an acceptable implementation for most people, but we feel that we will find the game tedious until some of these UI features are fixed. We have faith that the developers will continue to polish this. They seem like they are trying and polite to fans. We are happy to support developers like that.
FitF is a great trick-taking card game which we play on the tabletop a lot and we were excited to have an app to play against too. Unfortunately, the visuals just make it unpleasant and unfun to play. Every single trick has So! Many! Bright! Explosions! Of! Dazzling! Light! Its slow and once youve seen it once its just annoying to see it every single time. Its so distracting its hard to remember what was played by the end of the trick. Give it a fast play mode that turns off the animations and lets you concetrate on the game play. Then its a 4/5 game or better. Other small tweaks: improve the AI, and show the original card art whenever a card is played thats what everyone expects to see.
Absolutely wonderful. Really enjoy how interesting the game makes playing the cards. Its definitely a great substitution for playing cards. Game is absolutely brilliant in design. Having player want to win or lose a specific range of tricks is a wonderful shake up to normal trick taking games like Spades and Hearts. Love it. We love the card art and abilitys. Lots of fun.
Not super familiar with the card game (only played it once), but love trick-taking games (though we rarely have more than 2of us)! The tutorial was done very well (clear, simple, understandable, and short). Easy to pick up but cards have multiple options, so the game never feels old. Nice UI, too. Devs: When pressing-and-holding on a card to read the flavor text – it is very squirrely and sometimes disappears really quickly. Are there any other reports on that? Also, can you make an option to disable animations or the flashy bits? No worries if not! Thank you for making this wonderful port.
We enjoy the game. However when we were playing a game the score was 21-21 and the game freaked out and shut down. It should have run another round.
Face-to-face, The Fox in the Forest is the tensest game Ive ever played, a trick taking knife fight with a disarming the fairytale theme. Until youve looked into the chilly eyes of a loved one as they force you to take a trick that pushes you from six points down to zero, you have not known fear. With its sylvan theme and ambient nature sounds, Dire Wolfs transfer captures the fairytale feel, but replaces the knives with Ambien. Even the basic mechanic of dragging a card into the play space has been replaced by slotting little numbered tablets onto a sort of altar. Its an unsatisfying and, as far as we can tell, entirely unnecessary cosmetic change. Our heart goes out to anybody who has to adapt a trick-taking game they tend to be as visually static as they are intellectually dynamic. Still, dire wolf did no favors for the original Fox in the Forest execute the rules, but fails to capture the magic of its lightfooted and wicked source. Updatethe reason it makes you sleepy is that elements of the display gently bob, like a ship at sea. Bizarreespecially when it takes place in a forest.
As a fan of trick-taking card games, we were really looking forward to this port. But as much as we enjoy the game itself, and as beautiful as the presentation is, the AI opponent just doesnt seem to know how to play well. After playing 12 normal-length games against a Hard opponent, we havent lost once, remarkable considering that that Id never played Fox in the Forest before yesterday. In several games, it didnt seem to realize that you shouldn't take 10 tricks, so it was too easy to trick it into being Greedy. And so far it doesnt seem to play any better in the campaign games either. Unless the AI can be improved, we cant recommend this port.
If its going to be all-2D, use SwiftUI. It feels and looks shabby and non-native.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.0
- Size: 170.48 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Dire Wolf Digital LLC
Last updated: 16th September 2025 | Genre: Card, Board | Developer: Dire Wolf Digital LLC