Flock Together Review - Apparently You Can Leave The Chicken With The Fox...
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Flock Together is a beautifully immersive cooperative experience for 1-5 players. During the game, each player takes on the role of a unique chicken with asymmetric abilities and works together to drive off the invading predators before the third season ends.
Every turn, players choose their own strategy to progress their cause by selecting two of their eight available actions. Along the way, players will also have to manage leveling up, predator loot drops, traveling grubs, and adverse weather conditions. However, players must plan carefully, because as the seasons change, every predator that is still alive grows stronger and gains new abilities.
With eleven asymmetric characters to play and ten unique predators to defeat, Flock Together offers immense replayability that can be enjoyed with quick turns and an experience that lasts 25 minutes per player.
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TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:12:51 - Ease of Play
0:13:40 - What I Like
0:17:25 - What I Don’t Like
0:19:44 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:21:00 - Final Thoughts
0:22:41 - Recommendations
5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.
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Hey Alex! Thanks for taking the time to review the game! I will clarify a few things...
- Eggs are also used in different Bonus Card effects and different characters use them in their abilities, as well
- There are a number of positive weathers that cross all seasons
- I would say that if foraging is your primary method of gaining food, that would be a very inefficient play style. If you make use of all your abilities, the forage action would only be taken sparingly when you happen to need that one extra food before doing some combo. There are many other ways to get food (Grubs, Bonus Cards, Loot Drops, Production) and I would recommend seeing foraging as a backup and not the primary method of gaining food 🙂
Just wanting to thank Matthew for responding to videos such as these for us potential buyers!
I don't think Alex is talking about just foraging, his point (which i agree) was that everything you do is to get food, spend food. Yes you can use various ways to get food,but in the end you are still get food spend food
@@ylein6508 I think the same thing could be said of Ark Nova- get money, spend money, but I think in both cases, it would be a great oversimplification of the game 🙂
What's your thought on this @Alex ?
Hey Matt! By the end of our first game, we finally started to understand how important getting abilities was. We got wrecked 😂 and are excited to try it again!!!
I got to see a playthrough of this game at a conference, and the guy who played as General Tso actually hoarded eggs through egg exchanges. The General's top ability allows him to impact dice rolls by paying eggs. It turned out to be super helpful in mitigating some of the predator return attack abilities and helping others with rolls for gaining eggs, capturing grubs, etc.
Personally, when I've played, I didn't need to forage nearly as often as you said. Even when I was Attila, who needs a higher number of meals to level up, I never felt like I was wasting all of my time foraging. Taking advantage of the cards was key!
They had me with chicken puns.
Thank you so much for the review! When a KS is live it can be hard to find an unbiased opinion.
Absolutely! Happy to help
I recognized Andrew Bosley's art style from the thumbnail of the video, he's so good!
Thank you for the review as your concerns would disappoint me as well. With the lack of BGG user reviews, which may indicate a lack of public play testing, and being their first Kickstarter, I will wait for retail.
Hi:) I have to say that with this video you have cofirmed one more time how much I appreciate yours works and videos. I really love this section what I lika, but even more what I don't like and what others may not liking, cause thanks to these I can find out about small things that may seem insignificant, but make a big difference. Like this gathering food mechanic, or that even if we have different resources it is doesn't matter at all. And that if it comes to anything, we have to first roll a dice. First I was charmed about this game and I was ready to back it, but now, when I know all of these, I rather pass this time. Thank you a lot:)
I felt the same way about the eggs in my first play. I wasn’t sure about the game, but my group really loved it! Makes me excited to play it more 😊
I'm glad!
Game looks really good. Just not seeing the advantage to not wait for retail, especially with shipping to Canada.
Because we’re a small indie publisher, there might not be a retail release 🐣
His concerns with the game resonates with me, and the game price plus shipping is holding me back
I agree, the game looks real fun!
But shipping and VAT is a major bummer. For the price of the game I'm backing for sure.
But those extra costs are $45, which make it $125 instead of $80... yikes.
@@dannywijnants1240 Yeah, VAT is crazy. I had no idea before starting this that the EU charged boardgames a 25% tax on entering, even on the shipping! 😳
That must make getting games in the EU a lot harder :/
@@matthewmundy9344
Indeed!
It's a hard call; back now or wait for retail.
At the local retailer we also pay Vat, only no shipping(plus vat). And of course some profits for the retailer.
During a campaign there is also the 2% exchange fee: $>€
reminds me of Creature Comforts or Maple Valley