FUSE Countdown is a new entry in the FUSE family, one that’s playable both standalone or as an expansion for the original FUSE!
Originally launched in 2015 as one of Renegade’s very first games, Kane Klenko’s FUSE brought the tense action of bomb defusal to the tabletop, in a quick and simple, but extraordinarily challenging cooperative game! Taking just ten minutes to play and minutes to teach, FUSE has appeal for all types of gamers!
Veteran FUSE bomb-disposal techs may think they have the original game down to a science, but FUSE Countdown will throw some new obstacles in their way while also providing some great new tools! Multi-colored dice, Spark cards, new configurations, and Roles all add new elements to the game! Multi-colored dice can fill spots of either color, allowing a new level of flexibility AND challenge!
FUSE Countdown Includes:
Multi-colored Dice - can fulfill either color
Spark Cards - When you can’t place a die, instead of rolling it and removing a related die, you draw a Spark card. They work like a mini-bomb card for you to fulfill. You cannot win the game unless all active Spark cards are resolved.
Roles - Each player has a special player power.
New Cards! New bomb cards using some of the new features/icons. *New Fuse cards featuring multiple colors/numbers
—description from the publisher
Images
- Go-to real-time cooperative game
- Chaos and non-stop excitement
- Better game by itself than the original Fuse
- Adds new player powers
- Defusing a bomb / Completing objectives under pressure
- Fuse
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together to achieve objectives.
- dexterity — Sometimes involves a stacking mechanism.
- Dice Rolling — Fulfilling objectives based on dice rolls.
- Real-Time — Players take actions simultaneously under time pressure.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This is such a hilarious game we've been playing this for years with our daughters and I don't think we've ever played a game where there's not laughing happening
- the mechanisms are board gamey kind of mechanisms but the atmosphere of it is very much of a party
- This is one of those games that I think I am always in the mood for
- my whole thing with games I'm just going to let let you know this in this video in case you didn't already know is I don't really care if I win and lose as long as I'm able to accomplish something
- Season 2 was really interesting cuz you um you don't realize what had happened until about Midway through the game there's big plot twist
- I don't know how you play test things like this like how do you do it to make it so where when people play this game you know they're going to do these things so these things get revealed this way it's incredible
- one of the things I really liked about this game is how seamless the turns War it turns were it just happens
- it is crazy fun and crazy stressful but like that fun stressful cuz it's all in real time