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Keyflower

Keyflower

2012·Sebastian Bleasdale, Richard Breese

Videos
8
Creators
6

Mainly reviews. Keyflower is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 4 reviews, 1 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 2 other videos.

2 - 6 players
90 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

From BoardGameGeek

Keyflower is a game for two to six players played over four rounds. Each round represents a season: spring, summer, autumn, and finally winter. Each player starts the game with a "home" tile and an initial team of eight workers, each of which is colored red, yellow, or blue. Workers of matching colors are used by the players to bid for tiles to add to their villages. Matching workers may alternatively be used to generate resources, skills and additional workers, not only from the player's own tiles, but also from the tiles in the other players' villages and from the new tiles being auctioned. In spring, summer and autumn, more workers will arrive on board the Keyflower and her sister boats, with some of these workers possessing skills in the working of the key resources of iron, stone and wood. In each of these seasons, village tiles are set out at random for auction. In the winter no new workers arrive and the players select the village tiles for auction from those they received at the beginning of the game. Each winter village tile offers VPs for certain combinations of resources, skills and workers. The player whose village and workers generate the most VPs wins the game. Keyflower presents players with many different challenges and each game will be different due to the mix of village tiles that appear in that particular game. Throughout the game, players will need to be alert to the opportunities to best utilize their various resources, transport and upgrade capability, skills and workers. Keyflower, a joint design between Richard Breese and Sebastian Bleasdale, is the seventh game in the "Key" series from R&D Games set in the medieval "Key" land.

Keyflower

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Review

Reviewing all of our "K" Games! (Keep or Cull)27:07

Reviewing all of our "K" Games! (Keep or Cull)

Nacho Average TableTop

Nacho Average TableTop

Watch it played

Keyflower- 4p Teaching, Play-through, & Roundtable Discussion by Heavy Cardboard2:27:56

Keyflower- 4p Teaching, Play-through, & Roundtable Discussion by Heavy Cardboard

Heavy Cardboard

Heavy Cardboard

Which Keyflower video should I watch?

Keyflower has 8 videos from 6 creators: 4 reviews, 1 playthrough, 1 unboxing and 2 other videos. They date from 2022 to September 2025.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Reviewing all of our "K" Games! (Keep or Cull)" by Nacho Average TableTop. 4 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Keyflower- 4p Teaching, Play-through, & Roundtable Discussion by Heavy Cardboard" by Heavy Cardboard.

If you like it, try Black Fleet, City of the Living and Wildscape, also by Sebastian Bleasdale, or Keyside, also by Richard Breese.

All videos

Reviewing all of our "K" Games! (Keep or Cull)Review27:07

Reviewing all of our "K" Games! (Keep or Cull)

Nacho Average TableTop

Nacho Average TableTop

#4 on MrX's Top 25 Games of All Time (2022 Edition)8:24

#4 on MrX's Top 25 Games of All Time (2022 Edition)

Just Got Played

Just Got Played

Let's Talk Board Games #40 – 4 Modern Classic Board Games & ImpressionsReview40:46

Let's Talk Board Games #40 – 4 Modern Classic Board Games & Impressions

Before You Play

Before You Play

Keyflower- 4p Teaching, Play-through, & Roundtable Discussion by Heavy CardboardPlaythrough2:27:56

Keyflower- 4p Teaching, Play-through, & Roundtable Discussion by Heavy Cardboard

Heavy Cardboard

Heavy Cardboard

How to play Keyflower board game - Full teach + Visuals - Peaky BoardgamerReview20:04

How to play Keyflower board game - Full teach + Visuals - Peaky Boardgamer

Peaky Boardgamer

Peaky Boardgamer

Keyflower unboxingUnboxing8:30

Keyflower unboxing

Just Got Played

Just Got Played

Keyflower - Great Game Debate ReviewReview15:52

Keyflower - Great Game Debate Review

Around the Board

Around the Board

Ep 27 House Rules / Keyflower/ Best Antithesis / This is. Board Game Parody1:05:30

Ep 27 House Rules / Keyflower/ Best Antithesis / This is. Board Game Parody

Around the Board

Around the Board

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About Keyflower

From BoardGameGeek:

Keyflower is a game for two to six players played over four rounds. Each round represents a season: spring, summer, autumn, and finally winter. Each player starts the game with a "home" tile and an initial team of eight workers, each of which is colored red, yellow, or blue. Workers of matching colors are used by the players to bid for tiles to add to their villages. Matching workers may alternatively be used to generate resources, skills and additional workers, not only from the player's own tiles, but also from the tiles in the other players' villages and from the new tiles being auctioned. In spring, summer and autumn, more workers will arrive on board the Keyflower and her sister boats, with some of these workers possessing skills in the working of the key resources of iron, stone and wood. In each of these seasons, village tiles are set out at random for auction. In the winter no new workers arrive and the players select the village tiles for auction from those they received at the beginning of the game. Each winter village tile offers VPs for certain combinations of resources, skills and workers. The player whose village and workers generate the most VPs wins the game. Keyflower presents players with many different challenges and each game will be different due to the mix of village tiles that appear in that particular game. Throughout the game, players will need to be alert to the opportunities to best utilize their various resources, transport and upgrade capability, skills and workers. Keyflower, a joint design between Richard Breese and Sebastian Bleasdale, is the seventh game in the "Key" series from R&D Games set in the medieval "Key" land.

Designers

Sebastian Bleasdale, Richard Breese

Artists

Juliet Breese, J Breese, Gemma Tegelaers

Publisher

R&D Games

Categories

City BuildingEconomicRenaissanceTerritory Building

Mechanics

Auction / BiddingEnd Game BonusesNetwork and Route BuildingStocks & Investment
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