Flamecraft Review in 60 Seconds

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DELUXE VERSION SHOWN
Flamecraft (1-5 players by Cardboard Alchemy and Lucky Duck Games) was one of the more popular games at Essen Spiel 2022. It was also one of the most attractive games, as many people were buying the additional metal coins, miniatures, and wooden tokens. This is a game that can draw in family members of any age, although it does require reading. If you would like to play with very young kids, you can easily play open-handed to help them understand what the cards do.

Flamecraft on The Perfect Boardgame:

PERFECT BOARDGAME ATTRIBUTES:
Theme: 2
Mechanics: 5
Components: 10
Strategy: 3
Complexity: 4

Medium Luck
Medium Interaction

[brianhillman]

The art is by FAR the best part, it's the cutest board game I ever saw.

[fionajackson]

I'm curious about your theme rating being so low at 2. To me the theme is the main appeal of the game.

[GriswoldSlicer]

The game does have a low skill floor, like Splendor, but I don’t know why you’d say it doesn’t have a lot of strategy cause the ceiling seems really high. There’s an incredible amount of player interaction, half the dragon abilities will directly effect the next player.

Whereas you take a game like Scythe, even though you have way more options than Flame-craft, the strategy is way more dull because player interaction is so costly. If the military player has selected you as their target it’s usually BL GG

[chillionaire]

Looking forward to this one. I won't list specific sites or add a link here (not sure what the rules / your preferences are around that) but the limited run Deluxe version of this is still available online for its normal price $79 with free shipping. Don't feel the Deluxe version is really needed for this game, but I've noticed the absolute first thing my 7 and 4 year olds do when I open a game box (new or old) is gravitate towards the character pieces, and then get excited about who they are going to be. Because of that, having those dragon minis from the Deluxe edition is going to be a must for us.

[JoaoVitorChavesAlves-gexu]

Aonde se compra os dragões e moedas que aparecem nessa imagem?

[Bondenaron]

This is the Kickstarter-variant, right? Because otherwise the components are cardboard and not wood, or did I get that wrong?

[KatyNorman]

Did you get a fancy version with "real" gold coins or did you just switch them out with something

[jessh]

What version is this? Your components seem nicer than the standard!

[fuzzmaster]

Nice. Wqs wondering if this was on your radar

[jamesandrews]

Don't expect plastic dragon minis either

[carmanragatz]

Normally I like this channel’s reviews but this was a terrible review of an awesome game!

First, this is NOT a “set collection” game! I don’t know where he got that from! This is a worker placement and resource management game primarily. In addition, the big draw to this game is the idea of communal engine building! This is NOT a cooperative game yet the actions everyone takes works together to help build up the engines of each individual shop, making that location better for everyone.

Secondly, the theme is fantastic and well implemented! It is actually one of my favorite parts of the game! The humorous names for the shops and dragons are just brilliant! For the theme the game takes on, I don’t know how else you would portray such a theme.

Thirdly, while I would say that this is a family friendly game, I think the strategy level depends on who you are playing with. I have played the game with my wife and kids and the strategy was light. I played with some of my gaming friends, and the strategy got quite heavy for what the game offers!

There are actually a lot of options to consider on the one hand. But then, because everyone’s actions affect the game for everyone, it’s easy for you to come up with one plan, then have the next player suddenly introduce an element of the game that provides opportunity for a third player to take advantage of and then interfere with what you may have had planned.

Overall, I think this review does not give this game nearly as much credit as it deserves. I’m not saying it is the most amazing game in the world, but it is definitely much better than the review lets on.

[ExplosiveBrohoof]

Don't expect heavy strategy? Uh, speak for yourself. When I played this, my friends and I were neck-deep in analysis paralysis.