We’ve stated it many occasions earlier than – We love cooperative board video games. We love them as a result of they encourage teamwork to win the sport. And once we can’t win, all of us really feel the ache of defeat collectively.

They’re additionally an effective way to get youthful children to take pleasure in board video games since you’re not competing in opposition to them. You don’t must ‘take it easy’ on them since you’re after the identical objective.

So once we first heard about Flash Point: Fire Rescue our curiosity was piqued. The massive query can be “is it a good board game?”

And with the cool image of a firefighter dashing forward with an ax, Caleb was anxious to open and play the sport the second he noticed it. So right here’s Caleb to indicate you Flash Point: Fire Rescue and inform you what he thinks concerning the sport.

Can the entire household take pleasure in Flash Point: Fire Rescue?

There’s no sense beating across the bush – Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a nice cooperative board sport for households!

Yes, cooperative board video games can work properly for households. But simply because it’s cooperative, doesn’t assure it will likely be enjoyable or participating. And that’s the place we’re pleased to say that Flash Point is enjoyable and interesting.

One of the issues that we actually like about Flash Point is the randomness of the place the hearth heats up. During each participant’s flip they roll 2 cube to see the place the following smoke token is positioned utilizing a cool grid system. So you by no means know what you’re going to get. Everything could also be going alongside simply nice after which impulsively, explosions begin taking place and knocking out partitions.

The different random component is the place the folks and pets (factors of curiosity) pop up in the course of the sport so that you can go rescue. In one sport we performed, Trevor rescued 4 of the 7 folks from the identical room. He’d step in a pair areas, rescue an individual, and get out of the constructing. Then the fortunate cube roll occurred to put the following particular person to rescue in that very same room – so again in he’d go.

Sure a firefighting sport seems like a severe matter, however we laughed a ton as we hailed Trevor for being the grasp fireman saving everybody as they’d hold showing out from below the mattress (or so we joked because it occurred to be a bed room).

And though the beneficial ages on the sport field say 10+, because it’s a cooperative sport don’t maintain again introducing it to youthful gamers. Sure youthful gamers could not be capable to choose it up and play it on their very own from the beginning. But as soon as they’ve been launched to easy methods to play, they could even be superb to sort out it with out your assist.

How many individuals can play Flash Point: Fire Rescue?

Another motive we predict Flash Point is nice for households is as a result of as much as 6 folks can play it collectively. And since we’re a household of 6, that sits very properly with us. But Flash Point can also be nice to play with solely 2 – which signifies that we don’t have to tug out a aggressive head-to-head 2-player sport each time that we solely have 2 folks that need to play a sport.

You might imagine it will be simpler to win with extra gamers, since extra rescuing might occur. But that’s not the case as a result of the hearth additionally spreads rather a lot faster when everybody’s rolling for hearth every flip. Overall, we’ve discovered it enjoyable irrespective of the variety of gamers.

How does Flash Point examine to different cooperative board video games?
People typically ask us to match video games for a wide range of causes. It could also be as a result of they like a sure fashion of sport play and would really like comparable video games. Or on the flip-side don’t need video games which are too comparable. Whatever the rationale, we all know we’ll be requested how Flash Point compares to different cooperative board video games.

While it will seemingly be a future matter the place we will go into extra depth between cooperative video games, we’ll rapidly say that Flash Point has a singular really feel to us and stands very properly by itself. In reality, every of the cooperative video games we’ve reviewed have their very own distinctive really feel. In every sport, there’s a disaster of some type that have to be overcome. And the way in which that these disaster’s escalate is totally different in every.

In Flash Point, we benefit from the theme of being a staff of rescuers. And the compactness of the sport board and the way in which the risk spreads all work collectively so properly. In the household play guidelines the sport could be very simple and streamlined making it very straightforward to grasp and bear in mind. There isn’t an excessive amount of happening and that’s an excellent factor.

But there’s additionally one other degree at which you’ll play Flash Point. The sport additionally consists of different components and guidelines that can add extra complexity and problem to the sport when you’re in search of one thing deeper.

How does Flash Point rating on the “Let’s Play Again” sport meter?
As you can guess from our assessment, Flash Point scores excessive on our “let’s play again” sport meter. Flash Point performs in a comparatively brief period of time for the kind of sport that it’s and as such is straightforward to arrange and play once more. And if you lose, that’s precisely what you’ll need to do – play it once more. It’s additionally going to be a sport that stays inside attain on the sport shelf for frequent play.

Thanks to Indie Board & Cards for an excellent household cooperative board sport!

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