To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Finally, you will run through the playing deck a couple of times in play and therefore you may choose to sleeve the cards. With only a single action to take each turn, play moves pretty quickly around the table and keeps the flow moving smoothly.

This multi-layered expansion adds a whole host of new additions including Fire Hawks, Seasonal Cards and a 3D Fire Centrepiece for the board.This is very helpful as the rulebook itself is mostly just block text and is densely worded so having these visual aids can make the cards more accessible for players. Whereas Chess and Othello reward players with the most skill and tactical play, Fire Tower has more elements of luck. Competing fire departments will complicate your work, using the unrelenting winds to their advantage in an attempt to safeguard their own towers and threaten yours. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. To start with, you get a large and sturdy board depicting the four different towers, forest, and the eternal flame in the center.

The Rising Flames Expansion adds solo and fifth player modes, along with new variants of play and a flock of custom meeples. Other cards that may be given to players or drawn whilst playing include Wind Cards which allow for a change in wind direction. Fire Tower is an abstract game, but holding the power of wind, fire, and water in your hands might make it feel like you’re on a Wizards Tower instead. Rising Flames expands Fire Tower to 1-5 players and adds new strategies, exciting variants, and unique events that make each trip to the forest a thrilling adventure.But beware of the growing influence of the Shadow of the Wood which provides destroyed towers a host of new abilities with which to claim a surprise victory. My only gripe with this is that it is not a permanent feature in the base game and only comes into play when the card is drawn from the deck.