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Have you played any games from the Kinfire Delve s

Have you played any games from the Kinfire Delve series?As a series of cooperative games, Kinfire Delve revolves around playing cards from your hand to beat challenges and delve down a well to reach and face the master of the well, the final and toughest challenge.You start the game with a hero and a hand of cards. The goal is to exhaust the well deck and reach the bottom of the well. There are four Well cards on the board at any given time. When you defeat a challenge, it's replaced with a card from the well deck.Each of these challenges has a type, difficulty, reward, and penalty. Each round, you pick a challenge, play cards from your hand, and roll dice to match or exceed its difficulty. If you manage to do that, the challenge is discarded, and you gain the reward. If you fail, you suffer the penalty, but add the amount of progress you made to the challenge and can attempt it again.Most rewards let you delve down the well, which means you discard cards from the well deck. Most penalties deal damage to the heroes, and if your HP reaches zero, you lose the game.There are three games in the series: Vainglory's Grotto, Scorn's Stockade, and Callous' Lab. The first is fairly easy and streamlined, the second gets more difficult, and the third is significantly harder. The last two also have more depth, more meaningful choices, and more ways of winning or losing.Kinfire Delve is an excellent series and among the best solo games I've played. They are quick, challenging, and fun. The component quality is excellent, their prices are affordable, and the art style is gorgeous. Because of the dice roll, there's a luck element to the game, and you have to push your luck to save your cards. If you don't like luck in games, this series is not for you. But if you don't mind it, these games are excellent options for solo or coop sessions.What are your thoughts? Have you played any of these games?Please keep in mind that we received review copies of these games.#boardgame #boardgames #juegosdemesa #brettspiel #bgg

Have you played Woodcraft? Woodcraft is a medium-

Have you played Woodcraft?Woodcraft is a medium-weight euro game that revolves around dice manipulation and resource management. You take actions to improve your workshop, gather resources, plant trees, and gain lumber to turn into goods that fulfill contracts and earn you points.The action selection mechanic of the game is brilliant and by far the best part of it. Selected actions move around a circular board, and the ones that are not popular get stronger over time through bonuses. This is not new in games, but it's implemented seamlessly here: the moving pieces of the main board handle it naturally, with no extra tokens or markers needed. This also makes action selection consistently interesting: sometimes you want an action, but another one is too good to pass on.You only get 14 main actions in the entire game. But on any turn, you can pay 3 lantern tokens for a bonus action, and those tokens can be earned in multiple ways. That might still not sound like enough to do much, but your turns get bigger and bigger as the game goes on. You'd be surprised how much you'll be able to do in your last few turns.The dice mechanics are also clever and very thematic. The three dice colors each represent a different type of lumber. You can modify their values by sawing them, gluing them together, or using helpers to do it for you. Unlocking these tools and helpers by improving your workshop is a fun part of the game.There are some fiddly rules that will have you go back to the rulebook a few times during your first couple of plays. Besides that, the rules and actions are fairly straightforward.While this is subjective, the overall art could be better. The helpers' faces in particular look strange and unsettling. The order cards, however, are beautiful, and the graphic design and iconography are straightforward and well done.Overall, this is a very enjoyable game with clever and thematic mechanics. If you like medium-weight euro games, Woodcraft is certainly worth a shot.What are your thoughts? Do you like this game?Please keep in mind that we received a review copy of this game.#boardgame #boardgames #juegosdemesa #brettspiel #bgg

What is your favorite Wingspan expansion? Have you

What is your favorite Wingspan expansion? Have you played Americas?Hummingbirds, introduced in the Americas expansion, are one of the biggest mechanical changes in any of Wingspan's expansions. They come in a deck of mini cards and are available during the game on a shared display called the garden. Each player also gets a hummingbird board and an overlay for their player board, which adds 3 spots to the left, one for each habitat. After taking an action in a habitat, you also take a hummingbird action. If the corresponding space is empty, you attract a hummingbird from the garden and earn a benefit. If it's already occupied, you return the hummingbird and move up the track for that bird's type. Each track scores victory points at the end of the game.Attracting hummingbirds provides various benefits, including cards, nectar, and moving up a hummingbird track. Besides adding more depth, these actions give you more resources and can bail you out when you are short one egg or one resource. All of this means that you can ramp up faster at the beginning of the game, which is a welcome change. That said, they also add complexity and make the game longer, so these changes will likely be divisive.One issue I have with the expansion is the hummingbird track boards. These could be much better and more functional if they were dual-layered with recessed tracks. A small board with 5 tiny tokens is prone to getting messed up during the game, and it's nearly impossible to trace what you've done and where the tokens should be if that happens.What are your thoughts? Do you like the hummingbird mechanic?Please keep in mind that we received a review copy of this expansion.#boardgame #boardgames #tabletop #wingspan

Have you played Fromage or Formaggio? Do you like

Have you played Fromage or Formaggio? Do you like these games?Fromage is one of our favorite mid-weight euro games. Formaggio is its standalone expansion. It can be played on its own without any components from Fromage, but you can also mix and match components from both games for more variety.Most importantly, Formaggio comes with 4 new quadrants for the main board, with new mechanics and new scoring criteria. In Banca, you score points by placing cheese in the same rows and columns. In Venezia, a gondola is placed on the board each time you make cheese. Points are then scored based on the number of gondolas next to your cheese tokens. Regioni is about placing cheese in the most regions and in locations with the most flags. In Vigneto, your goal is to have the most wine bottles. When you place a cheese, you can claim a wine tile.Formaggio also introduces a new type of cheese: platinum. Platinum spots are rare and very valuable, but it will take a full rotation of the board, or four turns, to get your worker back.Seasons are another new concept in the game. Each quadrant is matched with a season, and some structure abilities refer to the season that is facing you. Speaking of structures, Formaggio includes 32 new structure tiles with new and unique abilities.Formaggio is the same great game with more variety and new gameplay elements in the form of new quadrants and structures. Almost all of the rules are the same and straightforward. The components, production quality, and artwork are excellent, and it still plays in around 30 to 40 minutes. If you enjoy Fromage, you'll definitely enjoy Formaggio as well. But if you didn't like Fromage, Formaggio will not change your mind.What are your thoughts? Have you played Formaggio?Please keep in mind that we received a review copy of this game.#boardgame #boardgames #tabletop

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