Wow, you need to keep doing reviews. This is one of the best reviews of a board game and especially, a kickstarter review. I´m a current watcher but after this video, I´m a fan.

Thanks for this review! I've watched many reviews to see if the game is for me and you might be the first one that gave me the impression that you really knew what you were talking about. Not just hyping the game or bashing it to make a good review. So thanks for the review and the effort you've put into it! PS: On another note, you might have just cost me $200.

As someone considering buying this game, thank you for such a great review! The eb and flow of positives and negatives really help out (especially with prices being what they are). Love the content man, keep it up!

I’m glad you kept going after describing the different characters/abilities, because you had me sold there! The price and complexity of this one means I’ll probably never own it, but I look forward to playing it some day.

I guess I am one of the few who likes the network :) My only problem is the third floor. The goal on the third floor is usually too quickly achieved to justify the setup time.

Can’t believe how in depth this was. Great job and thanks!

Spot on with your final thoughts. I finally got through with the tutorial. Was a beast and took so long... and yet I still don't feel confident with it. The second this sits on the shelf for too long, it'll never come out. And yet I'm excited at the prospect of burning through the game while it's all fresh, even though that's totally unrealistic

Thanks for putting out this review, especially with the reprint hitting Gamefound in the next few days. I have a lot of Too Many Bones content, and even more coming with the Unbreakable crowd fund, that I know enjoy and have been watching with great interest since the reprint of Burncycle was announced. I’m still on the fence but this review definitely helped out understanding the mechanics of the game.

A fantastic and balanced review- great work! I’ve resigned myself to the fact I’ll probably never play a Chip Theory Game… I simply can’t afford them, or at least they are too expensive for me to take a chance on :D

Nice explanation of the game. It's the best that I've seen and moved burncycle significantly up on my priority list. Thank you!

Got my copy with expansions a couple of weeks ago. Looking forward to getting it on the table.

great honest review. subbed. agreed, the tutorial is simplified down too much.

Your description of the network board saved me $150. Thanks for the great review! You roughly said "I feel like all chip theory games need "energy" And motivation to get off the shelf, but once you do invest in them they are worth the time." I agree. It's sort of like a lifestyle game...you're either all in on it or you're not going to really mess with it. I had Too Many Bones and I enjoy it, but never had the energy to get it out (especially when solo). I think this game would suffer a similar fate.

Great analogy to "Trouble!" Subbed.

Great review. Thanks! The point about the tutorial is really well made. It’s not enlightening, is the best way I can put it. Instead, the first 12 or so minutes of the Before You Play burncycle review are a really good overview of the turn by turn actions - along with your own, great for the feel and narrative, they are both very helpful. I was looking out for a Ricky Royal / Box of Delights play through which always help me but none yet! I’ve TMB and Cloudspire (which I think are great) but for me burncycle is the hardest to get into. The mechanics are not helped by the entirely new language for actions - which is just another barrier in my head. Like you, I have spent so long reading the rules, and I can add falling asleep mid play through review and then picking up where I left off. 😂 Has been on my table for weeks and I still haven’t managed a full game. Will stick with it though and get some value for the investment.

I just got Too Many Bones and Cloudspire and am trying to find the time and energy to get those to the table. I like the idea of Burncycle but just have too many games that I need to play first. Thanks for the great videos and keep them coming!

Thanks for this, as many others have said I have been vacillating on this game, but this review has me pretty sure I know where I stand now. I appreciate your honesty and thoroughness.

Great review, Chris! I’d say I’m impressed, but at this point I already expect quality from you. Just like you expect quality from my comments. xD And I always reward you, you deserve it, even when you don’t. 🤪 Seriously, thank you! Very insightful, loved to hear your thoughts. I can see myself playing this, though I’m not sure about others playing it with me. And this totally feels primarily like a 2 player game. You might have saved me a couple hundred bucks!

Incredible review, thank you! 😊

burncycle is great. i am sitting here listening to you explain all the parts of it that are rough or that complicate the experience.... and i just wanna play burncycle again.

I know I'm in the minority with this but I honestly think the so called "deluxification" of Chip Theory Games makes the games look absolutely hideous. Not the box, that's quite cool, but the chips do nothing for me and the neoprene is too bright and too dull at the same time somehow. Really don't know how the general consensus is "beautiful, but expensive". Organisation is superb, though! PS.: Amazing review, easily best one I've seen!

Thanks for the review. So much of this could apply word for word to Too Many Bones. I love the game, but it has a steep entry point, works well really only at one or two players, requires a good bit of googling as you get into it etc. I wouldn't say TMB is a tough one to pull out once you have really gotten a handle of the game though.

Good, in depth, and thoughtful review. Definitely seems like a game I'd like but may delay a few months/year to let more copies flood the market since it's still fairly rare/pricey to get your hands on.

Thanks for doing this review, Chris! I really appreciate your thoughts on it as I've been considering picking this up in their upcoming Gamefound campaign. I wrote it off during the initial Kickstarter because I've always felt that the price point of CTG titles are outside of what I'm comfortable with spending on an unknown game. However, after watching some post release content and reading BGG posts, the combination of theme and the stealth aspects really piqued my interest. Deus Ex and Thief are some of my all time favorite video games growing up, and having a more thinky stealth simulation in board game form is an experience I think I'd really enjoy and find the time investment worth it because I have nothing like it in my collection. I'll likely just pick up the base game, and it's great to hear that you feel it is not lacking.

great review!

Burncycle is so great 😱 but those beads (in germany we call it Muggelsteine) are so cheap and the opposite of deluxe. For this i need replacement :/

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Chip Theory always has gorgeous productions, but they come with the expected premium price and their rules are all quite involved. I just find I have too many games that I want to get to and play to make such an investment in them. I'd definitely learn them from others and play though.

I learned my lesson with TMB. Great looking games, and I appreciate that they exist, but just too much for me. Both on production and in scope

I agree about this game not really benefiting from the premium nature CTG put on it. I feel like it's a really interesting and fun looking game. But if it was in the hands of a different publisher it would have been half the price and just as fun. I sometimes feel like CTG has pigeon holed themselves into the chips and neoprene and they wont let themselves out of it. And this is a result of that.

do you have silver approval? You are becoming pro man... BTW I really like the game solo or max 2 people and I hope in the next campaign they somehow improve the rulebook

This is a great review. I can’t remember if you have played Too Many Bones@-If so, does this require more or less energy to get out and run?

Hey I think butncycle looks great, and I am the GM type of player. But with player count, length, and complexity I just don't think I could get it to the table. I would love to play it, but I just don't want to buy it.

I agree it's a really good game but the Network side is a clear weakness design wise and it's unfortunate it's integrated so much into the game that you have to pay so much attention to it. The Nodes are too small and the icons too similar. The bag initially had more function and it seems like the design changed but they had committed to selling premium upgrade bags that are now basically pointless... opposite to FFG as CTG include a bag when you dont need one and FFG ... :P Big issue with Burncycle is they came way too early to KS without a solid game in place. I think the reason that it's not like an escort mission is you have direct control over the command bot unlike a real escort mission in a computer game where it's CPU controlled. The AI control over your escort mob is why they suck. CTG wont use card other than the box. You need a tray for the cards as the plastic cards are too slippery to stack. You need the expansion for Gyro.. :P Difficult to learn with lots of effort .. really? .. clearly you've never played Cloudspire. The BC Tutorial does continue beyond what's in the manual via a DL on the CTG site.

All my money went to the Unsettled shipping costs. Pass.

Sounds pver deluxefied... Good Review of a game I wont be getting... lol it doesnt even have minis... delux my butt...

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