Through the Woods: No Safe Path

Every path is a risk.

You are lost deep in the woods. The weather turns without warning, every trail hides a surprise, and the other hikers are not your friends. Gather supplies, pack your bag wisely, light a fire every night and be the first one out of the woods.

Through the Woods: No Safe Path is a competitive survival board game for 2–6 players, playing in 45–90 minutes.

How a round works

MORNING – Flip a Weather card. Storm, fog, heat or a perfect day: it changes everything you do today, and decides what the fire costs tonight.

DAY – Roll, move along the trail and resolve the tile you land on. Gather wood, water, meat and berries, open treasure, draw events, or be the first to flip a hidden special tile.

NIGHT – Every hiker pays to light a fire. Can't pay? You lose health. Then eat and drink to heal, and a new day begins.

See it in action

What makes it different

• A backpack that's a puzzle – Your bag is a 5x5 grid. Every resource and piece of gear has a size, so every slot counts.
• Weather that rules the day – 8 kinds of weather change how far you move and what survival costs.
• 30 unique events – Mother Bear, Hunt Rabbit, Lost in the Forest… luck can save you or ruin you.
• First or later – The first hiker to flip a special tile gets the reward. Everyone after pays the price.
• Clash! – Land on a rival's tile and you both roll. The winner steals one resource.
• Two ways to win – Be the first one out of the woods, or the last one still alive. 

What's in the box

• 1 game board made of hexagon map tiles (trail, forest, stream, berries, treasure, 10 special tiles, 3 optional fork tiles)
• 124 cards: 24 Weather, 30 Event, 60 Equipment, 10 Special Tile
• 6 player boards with backpack grid
• 6 summary cards
• 6 pawns and 1 die
• 120 resource tokens and 60 gear tokens
• 30 health tokens and 6 status tokens
• Full-colour rulebook

What's in the box: map tiles, cards, tokens, player boards, pawns and die

Exclusive Edition: Meet the Hikers

Bring the woods to life

The wooden pawns get you through the game. These miniatures make every move feel like part of the story.

The Exclusive Edition swaps the wooden pawns for six detailed 3D miniatures, each one a character from the world of Through the Woods:

• The Hunter: rifle ready, always watching the tree line
• The Archer: quiet, hooded and quick on the draw
• The Lumberjack: axe in hand, the woods don’t scare him
• Mother Bear: the danger every hiker fears, now on your side of the table
• The Merchant: lantern lit, always with something to trade
• The Trapper: knife and rope, ready for anything

Each figure is sculpted with real detail, from the fur on the bear to the rope coiled in the trapper’s hand. They arrive unpainted in grey, so you can play with them straight out of the box or paint them your own way.

Only during the campaign. This set is a Kickstarter exclusive. Once the campaign ends, it won’t be offered again. Choose the Exclusive Edition reward to get the full game plus all six miniatures.

Miniature images are concept renders. Final sculpts may vary.

Made by hand

Every illustration in Through the Woods was drawn by hand. Each card started as a page of small thumbnail sketches – usually four ideas per card – before one was chosen and painted. Here is a look inside the process.

Timeline

Late 2026 – Campaign ends and we place our order with the factory
Early 2027 – Final print files, factory samples and quality check
Spring 2027 – Production
Mid-2027 – Shipping to backers

About us

Nofffie Studio is a creative studio built on one belief: the best games are the ones you remember long after the box is closed.

We design art-driven board games and card games where story, visuals and gameplay work as one. Every illustration, card and token in Through the Woods was made with that goal – to pull you into the woods and keep you there until the very last turn.

Through the Woods: No Safe Path is our second title, and only the beginning. We will keep creating, testing and pushing our games further until they reach players all around the world.

Every illustration in this game was drawn by hand.

Why we need your support

The game is designed, illustrated and play-tested. What we need now is the step we can't take alone: turning our prototype into a real, finished box on your table.

Your pledge goes directly into making that happen:
• Printing high-quality cards, tiles, player boards and tokens
• Factory samples and quality checks before mass production
• Sturdy packaging to protect every copy on its journey
• Shipping the game safely to backers around the world

Kickstarter is all-or-nothing – if we don't reach our goal, no one is charged and the game stays a prototype. Every backer brings us one step closer to getting Through the Woods out of our studio and into your hands.