Bonfire Review - You Know A Stefan Feld Game When You See It

[@Agent_Pendergast]

Two comments. One, Bonfire is straight fire. Have loved everyone of our plays. A fantastic title and in my opinion a top five Feld. Two, the video quality on this review was crystal clear and the combination of the table top and lighting made this game pop off the screen. Fantastic video and lighting quality. Keep up the great work.

[@stormburns]

Loving the changes in your revamped review format!

[@BoardGameCo]

Thanks :)

[@dannyverbraeken3829]

Thanks Alex ! Love this game a lot ! Just waiting for the expansion now...

[@BoardGameCo]

Same here :-)

[@justlooking1234]

Hopefully the expansion adds more Elder cards for variability. That’d be super!

[@justlooking1234]

This is one of my favorite games ever! As far as the spending three action chits goes, I think of it more as a ‘get out of jail’ card. I’ve only used it a couple times, I think, either to move my boat across the world because I got cut off and stuck in the corner, or to spin the bonfire wheel because someone took the portal I needed at the last second. It’s very handy in those situations, but I don’t think it’s ever really something you ideally want to do if you don’t have to. As for the bonfires, I’ve got all seven lit and seen fellow players do it. I will say, though, it’s a challenging puzzle to solve and not one people typically figure out their first game. But that’s partly why I love it so much. Any aspect of your tableau that you actually complete feels soooo satisfying 😊

[@PinguinoProduction]

Bought this game two weeks ago. Finally got it to the table last night. Nice and crunchy. I will say I won with 7 bonfires with scores 120-72 by chaining the standard goals with my own bonfires in the last 5 rounds, getting 4 of the standard goals. Up until the last five rounds I was losing with only 5 vps too 😅

[@BoardGameCo]

Oh man....I hate you now.

[@EfrainRiveraJunior]

This is among the many games that I'll have to play first, then decide whether or not I'd add it to my collection.

[@headovmetal]

We love this game! I love getting the gates and portals placed in opposite directions. The theme really makes the tight economy more fun. I'm looking forward to the expansion.

[@BoardGameCo]

Love the game, but totally don't get the theme. Feels like a mismatch but I still love the game behind it so it's fine

[@kriba6755]

Love the game. Great review. There is theme and theme. - in case of having an actual theme, most Feld most euros lack - in case of a theme being more like a setting or ambient that you put yourself to enjoy the game, I totally enjoy that theme. The design and coloring is great. Piece of art. And that's all that matters to me in regard of theme /setting

[@fightingkitchen7960]

Have you seen the channel Shelfside? I enjoy their reviews. And they have in interesting scoring system.

[@BoardGameCo]

They're excellent yes, although I don't remember what they're scoring system is?

[@fightingkitchen7960]

@@BoardGameCo Well maybe it’s not a scoring system but they have 2 ratings: 1, where they try to be objective and 2, they give their personal score.

[@fingolfinfinwe]

I actually really liked Bonfire, one of my preferred Felds.

[@BoardGameCo]

Yes! Really solid, no my top but up there.

[@jaredneal4192]

I think I understand what you mean, in that perhaps the actions in the game aren't thematically integrated, but compared to most Feld games where I feel the artwork is very bluh, I felt this was a breath of fresh air from an artwork/theme standpoint. Excellent review though!

[@neo019]

Love this game... Just wait until the expansion hits your table! It will make it so much better! Only one con I had is the quality of punchboards :/

[@gelui13]

It has a good production value for its price a think! What expansion is coming?

[@RiHa_Games]

So many reviews 🤯 work hard, play a lot 😁

[@BoardGameCo]

Yep :)

[@npckse8508]

Castles of Burgundy thematic? I would say neither game is truly thematic, but I like the puzzle of this game. It is restrictive and will frustrate when you don't plan properly, but in the end I found ways to make points. I only won my last game because I had built up 19 points before end game scoring. So I won by 2 points in the end, which was likely a little frustrating to my opponent. Then again they let me claim all those yellow cards that were worth so many points.

[@fightingkitchen7960]

Does your top 50 board games include honorable mentions?

[@BoardGameCo]

In what sense? Do you just mean more than 50?

[@fightingkitchen7960]

@@BoardGameCo I mean some games that didn’t make the list but almost made it.

[@stormburns]

Review Iwari please!

[@BoardGameCo]

I will eventually :)

[@gelui13]

Just picked this game yesterday, I thought the production would be much worse than it is! Also, theme truly got to me! But you have to put a bit on effort on to it

[@BoardGameCo]

Yep!

[@ilqrd.6608]

did you say COB makes you feel like you are doing the things you are doing? Haha What!?! There couldn’t be a more themeless one than COB man

[@BoardGameCo]

The building of the castle feels like an actual goal.

[@stormburns]

Only 12 actions... Spoiler for an upcoming Endless Winter final review?

[@BoardGameCo]

How so?

[@stormburns]

@@BoardGameCo you said something along the lines of "i don't like euros that restrict me to 12 actions" and EW does that exactly. But I find it not to be restrictive at all in EW. Looking forward to hearing about your final thoughts. If I am not mistaken you had reviewed the prototype and did an unboxing but never reviewed the final product