Keyflower

The 2000, the actual board game, Aladdin's Dragons, which was actually a reimplementation of another game.

And all of these are from Richard Breeze, fame of Keyflower and Reef Encounter.

This is a game.

It's just kind of funny how I, when I was very early into gaming, I had a friend who had this game and I used to play it all the time with him, his wife and my wife.

This is part of the Key series of games.

Some of the other games you might have heard of from that series, obviously Keyflower, which is my number one game of all time.

It's in Carlos top five last we did it.

We've talked about that game a lot.

And so there's through lines throughout the entire series.

But I would say that what I was most intrigued about with Key to the City of London is the fact that this is very much like...

I don't want to call it a sequel to Keyflower, but it's more closely tied to Keyflower specifically than just being through lines through like key games.

I think this one and Keyflow, I think are two of the ones that are considered actual, they're branded as re-implementations of Keyflower.

And granted, that was the first time playing for all of us, um, and, uh, but it's kinda like playing Terraforming Mars at five players.

If you've ev- if you've ever d- th- done that or if you've ever played, uh, Keyflower at six players, it's just, it just drags and there's so much time between turns.

So that's my only complaint is, uh, maybe some of the design and, and s- some of the AP, uh, with higher player counts.

I'm gonna give this one a 7.5 out of 10.

So yeah, I'll list them all, and then I'll just say a couple of things about a couple of them.

So I had Through the Desert, Bus, Forest Shuffle with expansions, Revive, and Innovation, Guild of Merchant Explorers, Keyflower, Libertalia were all games that I considered as well.

The ones I'll highlight, Guild of Merchant Explorers would have had a higher chance of making it if there already existed a few expansions for it.

It just didn't feel like the longevity was there to be a lifetime game.

Revive, just because it's new, and I feel like I've just scratched the surface, and I'm just starting to love that game.

I just thought that might be one that has a lot for me to uncover, but I don't trust that after 100 plays, I would still want to play it, and that's what kept it from being the pick for me.

Keyflower...

I thought it's the one I felt the worst about, but there's part of me that wonders if like the key flower will continue to be my favorite game because I don't play it super often.