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Firefighters on Duty

Game ID: GID0452406
Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
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Description

Real-time cooperative game managing a fire department across 6 intense two-minute rounds rolling dice to extinguish fires

Description

Real-time cooperative game managing a fire department across 6 intense two-minute rounds rolling dice to extinguish fires

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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
  • Way way way way more complex
  • So many things to keep track of
  • Can't focus on gameplay
  • Too much bookkeeping
Thematic elements
  • Firefighting
  • Players act as firefighters responding to fires in real-time.
Comparison games
  • Project Elite
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • cooperative play — Players work together to put out fires and save people.
  • Dice Rolling — Dice rolls determine actions like moving, spraying water, or other firefighting tasks.
  • Real-Time — All players perform actions simultaneously during timed turns.
  • scenario-based — The game includes a booklet with different scenarios that affect gameplay and scoring.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • These were the most anticipated board games of last year's Ashen Spiel.
  • Are we disappointed? Are we happy? Let's figure that one out.
  • It's definitely better than I expected.
  • The unique deck building without guessing your opponent like varied characters. This card game auto battler is better than I thought it would be.
  • It's a good board game. I think I ranked it as in Friends Collection.
  • Sadly it's worse than I thought it would be.
  • The theme is wacky. The game play is mean.
  • It's better. It's better than I expected.
  • Agent Avenue is one of the best board games in the freaking world. Period.
  • There's so many things to keep track of that you can't even focus on the gameplay.
  • Well, now the cards you reveal will have these tokens on top of them. That's the way how you can call your friends and get some superpowers because of it.
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