Kinfire Delve Review - Descend Into The Well, Can You Outlast It All?

[@DukeJohnny]

THREE videos in one day? Did I miss some boardgame holiday, because the gifts are here!

[@BoardGameCo]

Every Tues, Thurs and Sat :)

[@Singulitarian]

Nice overview and review.

[@tomlikeabomb6706]

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

[@BoardGameCo]

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.

[@tomlikeabomb6706]

@@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.

[@JohnDoe-wp6cy]

​​​@@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

[@junhaoxu.]

Are you planning on reviewing Kinfire Chronicles?

[@BoardGameCo]

At some point yes :)

[@junhaoxu.]

@@BoardGameCo Hopefully before the campaign ends hehe, always keen to hear your input :D

[@FrankPipitone]

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.

[@ericmatteau9954]

Hum, my experience is also in line with Alex's playtime.

[@BoardGameCo]

If you're knocking it out faster kudos to you, I could be taking my time on my turns, unsure.

[@TheTintinjb]

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.

[@adamliny15]

Can you mix the well decks together?

[@Arkardu]

Their site says you can

[@sengraph7071]

Well decks and Boss can't mix but Characters can play in other box

[@Arkardu]

@@sengraph7071 I am fairly certain the challenge cards can mix in other sets

[@sengraph7071]

"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?"