Kinfire Delve Review - Descend Into The Well, Can You Outlast It All?
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
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In Kinfire Delve: Scorn's Stockade, a tactical and cooperative card game for 1-2 players, you will fight your way through the well deck of challenge cards to reach Scorn, the Master of the Well, and face them in an epic final battle.
Scorn's Well is made up of four challenge cards, with Scorn himself in the middle. As a challenge is defeated, another takes its place, with 57 challenge cards in total. As you face the challenges of the Well, you may play a skill card from your hand only when it matches the color of the challenge card, e.g., if you're facing a red challenge card, then you may play only a red skill card. Some cards have two colors, and some are white, that is, wild. If the card you play does not defeat the challenge, you'll be able to add some progress to it and attempt it again, though you may suffer a penalty for doing so.
Other seekers can provide help by playing one of their own cards as a boost, but beware. Running out of cards nets you an exhaustion card before you can draw a new hand. Exhaustion cards are never good, but some are worse than others.
Defeating a challenge provides you a reward, such as regaining health or delving deeper into the Well, which is represented by discarding unseen challenge cards. Once you've made your way to the bottom of the Well, you'll face Scorn himself. All Seekers share a health pool, and if the pool reaches zero, you're defeated. This is a game that requires teamwork and persistence as the wells of Atios are unpredictable and quite dangerous.
BGG Link - boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4...
TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:11:55 - Ease of Play
0:12:55 - What I Like
0:15:40- What I Don’t Like
0:19:15- What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:20:05 - Final Thoughts
0:21:05 - Recommendations
5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.
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THREE videos in one day? Did I miss some boardgame holiday, because the gifts are here!
Every Tues, Thurs and Sat :)
Boardgame reviews are so tricky to digest as a player. So many channels rave about games that I've tried and don't enjoy like Final girl for example, which is one that didn't hit with you either. For this game, thankfully I already played this game before your review because I love this game. I'm not sure if I would've tried it after this review though. The price point is great, game time takes less than an hour when I 2 hand solo this and I find it replayable enough that I can keep it around for when I want a quick challenge. Anyway that's the nature of this hobby so many games so many opinions. I always appreciate your viedoes, thanks!
Absolutely agreed! At the end of the day they're all just opinions :)
Interesting review. Not sure how to take it when you love stuff like Zombicide and death may die which have a lot of dice rolling randomness. Maybe I’ll regret ordering all of these lol
In zombicide, if you structure it well, rolling poorly won't mean you get attacked back, there's lots of mitigation from multiple rollls, to other characters helping, ranged attacks and more. In Kinfire, rolling poorly has no strategtic mitigation outside of just taking the hit.
@@BoardGameCo that wasn’t really my experience with Zombicide. I only tried green horde and sold it after a few plays because the zombie horde splitting constantly made it feel excessively difficult. I guess you would know better since you’ve played it more.
I feel like the dice rolls in this are just a bonus on top of the card plays but I haven’t played it yet and maybe it will feel frustrating. Just discarding cards because they don’t match any of the locations in play sounds frustrating.
I’m looking forward to trying it regardless. The dice system reminds me of ghost stories / last bastion which I enjoyed.
@@tomlikeabomb6706 a dice rolling game that don't deliver a good cliffhanger (in some throw, you need to have someway to work around variance if is longer than 20 minutes) because you won't get the same range of emotion when you fail as when you succeed, it will dangerously get close to feel like a trick tacking game that sometimes punishes you with no reasons than an exalting experience
Are you planning on reviewing Kinfire Chronicles?
At some point yes :)
@@BoardGameCo Hopefully before the campaign ends hehe, always keen to hear your input :D
Can you mix the well decks together?
Their site says you can
Well decks and Boss can't mix but Characters can play in other box
@@sengraph7071 I am fairly certain the challenge cards can mix in other sets
"No, not as an 'official' variant. I wouldn't just shuffle them together willy-nilly, as that's not likely to give you a good experience, and they have different card backs as well. The sets are mostly designed to allow swapping the Seekers between them. That said, you might be able to come up with some kind of fun variant if you tinker around a bit."
This is Kevin Wilson's response from BGG forum. As for the question "Can Well cards mix?"
This game takes nowhere near an hour to play. It is taking me 30-40 minutes. I agree with some of the other criticisms but the game does not really overstay its welcome.
Hum, my experience is also in line with Alex's playtime.
If you're knocking it out faster kudos to you, I could be taking my time on my turns, unsure.
I was considering this, but I'm also waiting for the new 20-strong campaign. I'm definitely disappointed by their pre-campaign $1 approach in their last game. It's a pitty because is a studio that seems to put together consistently good games.