Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2
Age
12+
Playtime
45 min
Complexity
3/5
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Description
Two-player follow-up to Furnace where 19th-century capitalists compete for global industrial domination with bidding and engine building
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Meeple University Top 10 List at 4:01 sentiment: positive
video_pk 85928 · mention_pk 221192
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- retains core Furnace feel with a spatial twist
- variety of maps adds replayability
- two-player-focused design
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- industrial processes / auction-style worker placement
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- auction with discs — bidding with discs ranked 1-4; highest bid wins the card; compensation based on bid
- building-based compensation — compensation is now a small building game rather than an icon on a card
- multiple maps / campaign structure — various maps to play; campaign-style variability
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's very tactile so I'm really excited to see this one come out
- the rules pretty simple and then there's some strategic thinking
- there are not that many games out there that take the three dimensional rotational aspect of things into account
- you are octopus with a cube like six-sided Cube
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Video 1GVYqX36FnA
UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 2:58:01 sentiment: other
video_pk 84135 · mention_pk 213478
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Curious
Pros
- Curious how it differentiates from the base game.
Cons
- Doesn't seem like it would be playable with the way Furnace was.
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
- Furnace
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Factions that win that have their own abilities that have their own winning combinations.
- It's too heavy for me.
- Yeah, it sounds absolutely amazing.
- Yep. And nobody knows it exists.
- I played Circadian First Light and I liked it.
- Scrolling through this thing with you said with the 300 responses and the people arguing about this game and I s there and it's like it's so amusing. The best part about it is you have these people arguing about Marxism and and uh and democratic socialism everything like that and then you have the people that are just trying vainly to get answers about the mechanics of the game. How does this work with the tricks when you do the thing? And it's just people going back and forth about, you know, screaming about uh, you know, like like how they're going to fix the world or whatever, which I I get it, you know, just it's it's who doesn't do that? But that's that's the part it it reminds me of.
- I watched in disbelief as businessmen voted for a repeat bankrupt, laborers for a boss infamous for stiffing his workers. Evangel evangelicals for a serial adulter for an admitted sexual assaulter. Patriots for a draft dodger who would sell his country's secrets for trivial gain. educated men for an ignoramus. But they did so with fierce gladness in their hearts because what their chosen one had done was open Pandora's box. Yes, the old one filled with the ancient calamities of race hatred and rage and cruelty and blood lust and infinite greed. and tell them that these things were the remedy for all of their grievances, that all their anger was justified, and most important, none of what ailed them was their own fault or ever had been.
- That is like the best paragraph I've ever uh Greg Isles in his book Southern Man.
- That is that is one of the that is uh yeah that was that is one of that is poetry.
- I played it and I could not remember anything. And that's it was such a quarter eater because they would like you'd be dead and it would like make you repeat the the move again and be like, 'Okay, is it left or right or up or down?' And you hit the button.
- No, it was free play, but it was like I played it and I'm like, 'Man, I really loved this back in the day and now I don't like it at all.'
- Everything but the ninjas is easy. The ninjas were like the the the And the ninjas just went on and on and on. You had to defeat like a thousand of them. It felt like
- Happy birthday, Bruno.
- It's just a It's just a It's just a virtual reality pinball.
- The elbow back. It was the most powerful move in the game.
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Rahdo Runs Through Top List at 1:24:38 sentiment: positive
video_pk 83658 · mention_pk 211334
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Two-player only version of Furnace
- Makes Furnace even better
- Likely top 10 games of 2026
Cons
- Not releasing until 2026
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Furnace
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And countryside is a freaking phenomenal.
- This is one of the best engine building games I have played this year.
- It is very likely going to make it into my top 10 games of the year. It is that good.
- My number three of the month is Rising Cultures.
- Number two is Druids of Adora.
- It's classic feld, making a comeback.
- Number one, Furnish Duel.
- A game that will not be coming out until 2026 will very likely make it into my top 10 games of 2026.
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Cy a couple Top 10 List at 11:11 sentiment: positive
video_pk 66310 · mention_pk 161308
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- strong two-player focus within an engine-building framework
- promises a tight, competitive experience with short rounds
Cons
- some uncertainty about full implementation outside of the two-player mode
Thematic elements
- engine-building duel with route planning
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Engine Building — standalone two-player game that can also be played as part of a campaign.
- engine-building — standalone two-player game that can also be played as part of a campaign.
- map routing / route competition — a map-based competition where players carve routes and position pieces to claim advantages.
- Network/Route Building — a map-based competition where players carve routes and position pieces to claim advantages.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- we're here with the best two-player content out there
- I really like two-player head games two player games when you can go head-to-head
- we'll play all of them and we'll tell you about all of them
- two-player implementation of games I do love a good two-player implementation
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The Board Gaming Doctor Top 10 List at 17:17 sentiment: positive
video_pk 32625 · mention_pk 96595
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Swift, tight two-player experience
- Engaging auction/engine mix
Cons
- Differences from the base Furnace not fully detailed
Thematic elements
- Industrial-age competition with rapid play
- Two-player duel in an auction/engine-building framework
- Terse, competitive duelism
Comparison games
- Furnace
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction / Bidding — Auction-style mechanism drives purchase or action cycles
- auctioning — Auction-style mechanism drives purchase or action cycles
- Engine Building — Engine construction for efficient action generation
- engine-building — Engine construction for efficient action generation
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This will be a top 10 list of games that I'm excited about for Gen Con 2025 as well as for this year in general.
- I'm hopeful that Finsspan delivers for me in a way that Wingspan almost does in my anecdotal testing.
- I love pulling this out and playing.
- a tiny epic, you know, quote unquote type of game, a small box edition of a space 4X.
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