🏭💰 𝔽𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕒𝕔𝕖 💰🏭
🇬🇧 (🇵🇹 in the comments ⬇️) In Furnace 🏭, a game by
@hobbyworldint and
@malditogames , we're capitalists growing our industries and producing and exploiting different types of resources in order to accumulate wealth 💰.
🎲 The game is an engine-bulding with various types of mechanics, the first of which is the auction, which is repeated at the start of each turn. In the auction, each player bids with one of their chips, numbered from 1 to 4, in order to try to get the cards they are most interested in from a supply of cards available to all players. If you win the auction, that card will then feed your production engine; if you lose the auction, all is not lost, as the player will win the resources marked on the card multiplied by the number printed on their chip.
After the auction is the production phase. And in any order chosen by the player, they can carry out the action on each card, either to produce resources, transform those resources into other resources, earn money or upgrade their cards.
And that's basically how a round goes, as the rounds go by the production engine gets more developed and the advantages we get from it are also greater, meaning we get richer and richer 🤑😁
🟢 The game is very interesting and the biggest puzzle is at the point of production when you have to choose the order in which to activate your cards. Since the resources or actions of some cards influence or can improve the actions of other cards, this choice of card activation order is perhaps the most important decision in the game.
🟡 The only thing that made me less happy about the game is the need to manage a dummy player in the auction part, in a two-player game.
✅ But otherwise I really like the game and its elegant mechanics, which are easy to understand but still make you think. It's a game with an excellent balance between length (30/40 minutes) and complexity.
