Game Info
Year
2014
Players
2-5
Age
13+
Playtime
30 min
Collection
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Description
A card-drafting game in which dragons pillage villages and hoard treasure while deciding which piles to burn and which to claim
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Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Review at 0:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Playing as a dragon
- Quick gameplay
- Easy to learn
- Beautiful artwork
- Cute components
- Balanced scoring
Cons
- Can give away victory points unintentionally if not careful with flaming.
- Area scoring requires full destruction, otherwise no points are scored for that area.
Thematic elements
- Dragons hoarding treasure and destroying villages.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — The game has 'area control scoring' where points are awarded based on who destroyed the most.
- Card Drafting — Players are handed three cards each round.
- Hidden Movement — Players can play cards face up or face down based on their castle.
- Set Collection — Treasures and knights go into a player's hoard, and relics stay in front of the player.
- Victory Points — The game uses 'glory points' as victory points.
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Quotes (from this video)
- So Dragon Flame, coolest thing, you're a dragon right off the bat. We love it.
- My favorite Personally, my favorite types of games is when I win or lose by one victory point. I absolutely adore games where that happens.
- It looks really, uh, really fun, quick, and, uh, very easy to pick up.
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Getting Games Top 10 List at 2:08 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Thematic interest with dragons and burning villages
- Potentially more interesting than Colorado due to dragons and varied card types
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Colorado
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-based actions with dragons — dragons and specialized cards provide thematic variety beyond simple color matching
- push-your-luck — thematic flow where players decide whether to cash out or push their luck for better cards
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Quotes (from this video)
- Number one game I'm excited to play at Board Game GeekCon is Gold West.
- Number 10 is 504.
- Time Stories... it's this really cool cooperative time travel puzzle solving mystery.
- Gold West... looks solid. I'm having a really hard time putting my finger down on exactly why this game has me so excited.
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Getting Games Top 20 List at 19:22 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- interesting card-placement and hidden information
- fun thematic flavor
Cons
- played after fatigue; not engaging as expected; slower
Thematic elements
- area majority with dragonflame mechanics
Comparison games
- Colorado
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- flame tokens and cute humor — Dragonflame cards add tokens with humorous names.
- Hand Management — Players place 3 cards into columns (face up/down) and later pick from those columns.
- hand management and column-based selection — Players place 3 cards into columns (face up/down) and later pick from those columns.
- village area majority with flames — Place tokens to burn villages; points awarded when village burns completely.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this game is stunning it's just absolutely gorgeous
- I really enjoyed playing this game
- the awesome action mechanic was not enough to sway me away from the relatively dull gameplay of majority in general
- there is a humongous problem with this game
- the mechanics were cool I want to explore this one quite a bit more
- I am terrible at Buy Low Sell High games for some reason
- I think it's a really solid sticky game probably the thinkiest of the tiny epic game so far
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