The only thing Flamecraft has going for me is the $40 SRP. Cheaper than Waterdeep, Stone Age and other worker placement games, and even a playmat bigger companies would try to sell you separately!
Its also been great as a cheaper entry to placement and resource gathering games.
But pretty bare bones aside from a clever solo video-game-unlockable design I’d like other board games to add to their solo games.
My thought was “yes, no more crappy Hasbro quality components!”
Renegade did a good job fixing Acquire so far. You can actually see the numbers on the board now, and Sid Sackson’s name wasn’t wiped from existence.
Customer said the Renegade Robo Rally looks like a board game and not something found at Five Below 😆
Scythe Expeditions, Great Western Trail Argentina, and very unlikely Heat as stores in North America are only getting maybe a dozen each today.
Ah, I think I have been watching too much Star Trek and forget that prejudice still exists sometimes ☹️
Have fun schooling those plebs with the decor
Sure you think paper snowflakes are useless but wait for an elementary school play to need set design and they will crawl in their hands and knees to rescue them 😉
Not into stuff like that myself but I would have thought the purpose of nipple rings was to show that you have nipple rings. Put on a tight shirt and walk proudly through the library with your chest out like a proud pigeon kind of thing.
But I guess one solution is to get extra piercings on your chest and stomach so people won’t be able to tell which piercing is the actual nipple piercing.
I run a board game store, so just for a chuckle I asked it about what’s popular this year or what to order and kept getting the same answer about only having accurate data from 2021 and prior.
I feel there is still life in it, like with Superfight. It encourages debating to the judge and pairs cards directly with each other granting more interaction.
And if you count Dixit/Mysterium/Obscurio as a judge/committee pick game I would love to see more people take a stab at judge pick games
But it is a shame Superfight seems to be dwarfed by other mass market games.
The only saving grace for Wingspan fore are the achievements in the digital version. I enjoyed having some bizarre setups needed to unlock the chievos and as a result I got better at the game I feel and was able to sort of get around the luck of the draw style.
What sent Wingspan into the stratosphere of popularity was more tapping into the non gamer middle age market with articles like the NYTimes.com at the time spreading the word.
Had it not pulled a Wii (a term I use when a company attracts a new demographic) I imagine Wingspan would have hovered around or above Viticulture popularity.
On the plus side Blood Rage is a dead seller at our store compared to Rising Sun which still sells out at wholesale for months on end
“New Phone Who Dis?” From the WhatDoYouMeme people. I imagine it sells regularly, but going in with low expectations for a judge-picks-card game this one somehow makes it really hard to think up of humor.
The sentences are longer and specific you can’t let your imagination run wild.
Obviously a cash in but felt like such a beyond low effort
I unlocked everything in 18 games, solo only. I felt it was worth the $30 (got mine discounted), and would be worth $40 I feel for 2+ people playing all the way through.
However it is out at Pegasus Spiele US so retailers cannot obtain anymore so just make sure you are getting it for it’s SRP in your country
Ready Set Bet I feel like would have been an SDJ nominee, but while it’s all symbol based the VIP cards have some text, but are not neccessary
Sale wise at my store Nemesis sold about 7 copies and Nemesis Lockdown sold 1 copy in 2023, so my assumption is regular Nemesis.
However Asmodee is sold out of Nemesis, meaning game stores cannot order anymore until the reprint arrives. Lockdown might still be in stock at shop asmodee.com, so take that as you will,🙂
I wager the spring 2024 reprint should see good discounts. Unless the momentum for Heat does at Christmas and OGS’s need to dump that bulky space