- Fire Tower Board Game Deluxe Edition

Nice board game, easy and quickly

One of my daughter’s favorite games currently! It’s easy to learn and fun!

As a firefighter, I've been looking for a good game to play. This game has a bunch of cool rules and took about three times playing to get everything down. My wife and I have been playing this routinely for the last three weeks. Pace is fast but still really enjoyable. Looking forward to playing with more than two players. I am really glad I sprung for the deluxe edition as it was on sale and was the same price as the local stores for the regular version. High quality pieces, great board, and awesome colors! Next I need to buy the deluxe expansion! The deluxe edition has a really nice heavy die for the wind direction. It isn't rolled a ton in the game though so it being heavy makes it feel premium. The fire is really cool looking and the nice bag helps keep all the pieces together. Cards shuffle like ordinary playing cards. Highly recommend!

This is a really fun game, easy to play, easy to learn. Great for all ages (kids, parents, grandparents). Highly reccomended.

So first of all, before I nitpick, let me say how happy I am that game designers went to all of the effort to design and test a game, and then produce and sell them. It can't be an easy process, and I think the result here was really good. It's nice to have other options besides "Monopoly", which hasn't changed much in a century. Picking a game theme must be a minefield these days (someone should make a game about that). But Fire Tower has an elegant and sort of passive-aggressive solution that I kind of admire: fire is a primordial force that no one can truly "control"...but you CAN draw or play a chance card, so that the fire burns down your opponent and it's just...a force of nature! Whoops! I do think the game mechanics improve with more players (seems to be more chances to shift the wind direction in a meaningful way, or at least keeps the pace up). On the plus side, among many other positive attributes, during testing even a bright 7 year old could become a devious strategist. So the game is balanced, and interesting enough without being overwhelmingly complex. So, on to the nitpicks: I don't think that wooden purple dots are a very great representations of a fire break. I know that cost has to be limited somewhere, and a firebreak isn't so much a "thing" as an "absence of things", but this should be shown some other way. When you are trying to entertain people with a board game with this kind of niche theme...you need every edge you can find. I think 3D printed pieces would be really cool, and it would be fun to represent different kinds of defenses with different meeples. So for example, fire bombers, smoke jumpers, dozers, and, I dunno, some "rainstorms" from mother nature, that had slightly different defense patterns or attributes? (A rainstorm defense player being able to defend within their own fire tower area would be pretty clutch). And what if it was tied to the color of your fire watch tower or decided by dice roll? It seems that there are enough opportunities to swap hands of cards, that this could work. I haven't purchased the expansion yet, but it seems that the problem of spreading the fire around in more creative ways could be solved with rule changes instead of an expansion. As it sits, players all have the same defensive options as any other player (no unique abilities). This may have also been addressed in the expansion, but I am still discovering the base game mechanics.. Anyway, great effort! Please apply this kind of creative thinking to other types of subjects (even if the underlying game is similar), and I hope it will perform and sell just as well!

I am a big fan of Risk and this gives the exact feelings of that but the game is faster and with more variety. I love it.

I bought this game for a holiday exchange event, but I have played the game and can give insight to it. It'sa light game, like 30 minutes per game whereby each player plays cards from their hand trying to push the ever growing flames towards their opponents and away from themselves. The cards have various abilities to help push the flames or block off areas. It's fun, we enjoy it and I'm excited for whomever opens this gift!

We buy a new game every year and this board game was a blast! You can play in teams or individually. The game doesn’t take long to play, and just about anyone can learn the strategy needed to win. Several versions included, so it’s a great value for a board game. Highly recommend!

Bem embalado, lacrado e original! O jogo é muito divertido! Recomendo!

Nice

Muy buen juego, a algunas personas les cuesta un poco entender algunas mecánicas aunque no son difíciles, después de una partida ya le agarran la onda. Me gusta mucho la mecánica de juego en equipos, porque el modo todos contra todos es bueno pero a veces se sale uno muy rápido porque sí es bastante agresivo, pero puede seguir jugando en el modo fantasma. Los componentes se sienten de calidad y siempre hay quien dice que le gustan mucho las piezas de fuego. Lo recomiendo mucho, especialmente para 2 y 4 jugadores, nunca lo he jugado de 3. Sobre el idioma, tiene figuras en las cartas que ayudan a entender su funcionamiento, busqué un instructivo en español en internet pero no es el mismo que tiene el juego, no sé si es una edición diferente. Pero no es difícil de aprender, una vez conoces las reglas básicas, es muy poco dependiente del idioma. Aún para personas que no saben nada de inglés.

Quick delivery great product

El juego es divertido. No cuenta mucho entender las reglas y es una idea fresca. Se necesita un conocimiento medio de inglés. El juego puede provocar conflictos ya que parte del el mismo consiste en perjudicar a los demás. No recomendado para niños o personas con baja tolerancia a la frustración.