For more experienced players, there are a number of ways to make the game more challenging. There are three different ways to set up for different difficulty levels, typically with more starting explosions and more hot spots for harder difficulty. In addition, the board is double-sided, with one side normally causing more problems than the other due to its geometry. If you really love Flash Point: Fire Rescue, there’s even expansion maps which alter the difficulty, add extra rules and change-up your experience. Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a great implementation of what is now the classic co-op experience. The theme makes working as a team come so natural to players, though there is always that one person who questions why you can’t just put the fire out and go home. The different roles all have their own unique strengths, with some being of very limited use at certain parts of the game, so the ability to retire to the fire engine and swap your role for another firefighter is an ingenious solution so no player feels useless. Once you have placed explosions you also place a number of hazardous materials, which explode if they touch fire, and a number of points of interest tokens which are either people/animals you need to save, or blank tokens designed to waste your time! Each player then receives a role card giving them a unique ability to use throughout the game. As the official digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game from Indie Boards and Cards you will experience the same excitement and challenge of the original in a light-hearted digital form. Key Features Will your team galvanize together, think on their feet and keep the fire at bay, or will the dice rolls mimic the chaotic behavior of a real fire and cause the house to collapse before you’ve had the opportunity to rescue the people inside? Flash Point: Fire Rescue- Gameplay

For 2-4 players though, Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a wonderful game that really makes you feel like a hero! Fiona’s Final Thoughts Each player can take on the roll of a specific type of firefighter: The CAFS Firefighter who can extinguish fires without using action points, the Fire Captain who can use their action points to move other players around, the Rescue Specialist who can move farther and can chop through walls easier. Perhaps the players would prefer to play the Imaging Technician who can identify where the victims are, or the diver/operator who can use the fire engine much easier than others. What firefighting team would be complete without the Hazmat Technician who can dispose of hazardous materials easier than others, the Paramedic who can heal the victims and get them out of the fire faster or the extremely useful and versatile Generalist who has an extra action point. Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a turned-based strategy game that places you in command of a squad of specially trained firefighters with the sole aim to rescue survivors form a raging structural fire.Flash Point is a co-operative game where the players take on the rolls of firefighters attending the scene of a house fire; they need to fight the fire, rescue the occupants and ensure that all this is done before too many of the occupants have died or the house collapses. At the start of a game you roll the dice to generate a series of explosions that represent the state of the fire when you arrive. These explosions generate fire tokens, which hinder progress until extinguished, and structural damage cubes. Damage cubes create holes in walls making it easier for you, and the fire, to move about, but should you run out of the supply then the house falls down crushing everyone still inside. There are some negatives. As with most dice games, sometimes the dice just hate you. There is variable difficulty and even a simplified family version, but ultimately the extra hazards aren’t a threat if you never roll them. Flash Point is great for small player counts where your turns come relatively fast, but at the higher player counts the wait between turns can be a little painful, it feels like your firefighter has completely lost any sense of urgency and is casually strolling around as the house burns and explodes around them. Flash Point: Fire Rescue follows the formula of many co-operative games, having a relatively short list of potential actions and giving each player a number of actions to spend on their turn. The theme of Flash Point: Fire Rescue makes it quite obvious and intuitive for new players to decide what moves to make.

One of the most interesting things about Flash Point: Fire Rescue is that any action points you don’t use on one turn can be saved for your next, this allows you to take a breather in an area that isn’t on fire, rather than risk standing in a dangerous place just to use those last action points. Generally most logical moves are a good option. Like many co-operative games in this style, there is the opportunity for one player to try and take over and decide everyone’s move, but if everyone is conscious to avoid this ‘alpha-player’ scenario then all players should be able to make a big contribution, even in a first game. In addition, if playing with young experienced players, the base game even includes a family rule set with no special character abilities and few extra simplifications. For gamers this can be quite boring but it’s worth it to get everyone around the table familiar with the mechanics. The game ends with the players winning when seven people have been rescued, or they lose when four are lost or the building collapses by taking to much damage. Your team will need to make the most of each turn using limited action points and specialized abilities to explore the environment, tame the volatile fire and rescue the survivors before the building is reduced to rubble. Players are firefighters who at the simplest "family" level can move, put out fires, cut through walls and rescue victims; higher levels introduce specialized roles such as the fire captain, the engine operator, hazmat technicians and paramedics. [1] The game "owe[s] a lot to Pandemic". [3] Development [ edit ] Flashpoint game in progressFire tokens spread, turning all adjacent smoke tokens into fire tokens, combine this with hot spots, which make you roll additional times when you roll them, and the house fire can soon get out of hand. Ultimately if you manage to save enough people from the fire then you win the game, however the game is lost if the house falls down or if too many people die in the blaze. Amy’s Final Thoughts Will your team galvanize together, think on their feet and keep the fire at bay, or will the dice rolls mimic the chaotic behavior of a real fire and cause the house to collapse before you’ve had the opportunity to rescue the people inside? Flash Point: Fire Rescue– Gameplay We got the call, a building is burning and there are people trapped inside. Fire is spreading and time is running out. We've had reports of explosions and the whole thing can come crashing down at any moment. You know the job: get those survivors out of there. Flash Point Fire Rescue, from Indie Boards and Cards, is a thrilling game of fighting fire, rescuing victims and team work from the game designer Kevin Lanzing.