2005Richard Launius, Kevin Wilson
- Videos
- 116
- Creators
- 38
1 - 8 players120 - 240 minHeavy weight

2024Kevin Wilson
Mostly reviews and playthroughs. Kinfire Delve: Callous' Lab is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 11 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 7 recorded sessions, and 7 unboxings.
From BoardGameGeek
In Kinfire Delve: Callous' Lab, a tactical and cooperative card game, you will fight your way through the well deck of challenge cards to reach Callous, the Master of the Well, and face him in an epic final battle. Callous' Well is made up of four challenge cards, with Callous himself in the middle. As a challenge is defeated, another takes its place, with 57 challenge cards in total. As you face the challenges of the Well, you may play a skill card from your hand only when it matches the color of the challenge card, e.g., if you're facing a red challenge card, then you may play only a red skill card. Some cards have two colors, and some are white, that is, wild. If the card you play does not defeat the challenge, you'll be able to add some progress to it and attempt it again, though you may suffer a penalty for doing so. Other seekers can provide help by playing one of their own cards as a boost, but beware. Running out of cards nets you an exhaustion card before you can draw a new hand. Exhaustion cards are never good, but some are worse than others. Defeating a challenge provides you a reward, such as regaining health or delving deeper into the Well, which is represented by discarding unseen challenge cards. Once you've made your way to the bottom of the Well, you'll face Callous himself. All Seekers share a health pool, and if the pool reaches zero, you're defeated. This is a game that requires teamwork and persistence as the wells of Atios are unpredictable and quite dangerous. -description from publisher
Kinfire Delve: Callous' Lab has 26 videos from 24 creators: 11 reviews, 1 how-to-play guide, 7 playthroughs and 7 unboxings. They date from 2024 to September 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Kinfire Delve: Callous' Lab - Tutorial & Playthrough" by Gaming Rules!, which runs 1 h 18 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Kinfire Delve Trilogy Review: Well, Well, Well..." by The Dice Tower. 10 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Kinfire Delve: Callous' Lab - Solo Session - Playing for Second" by Playing for Second | No Hype, Just Board Games, one of 7 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Arkham Horror, Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall, A Gentle Rain and Arkham Horror (Third Edition), also by Kevin Wilson.
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2005Richard Launius, Kevin Wilson
1 - 8 players120 - 240 minHeavy weight
2023Kevin Wilson, Darrell Hardy, Adela Kapuścińska, Brandon Perdue
1 - 4 players45 - 60 minMedium weight
2018Nikki Valens, Richard Launius, Kevin Wilson
1 - 6 players120 - 180 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In Kinfire Delve: Callous' Lab, a tactical and cooperative card game, you will fight your way through the well deck of challenge cards to reach Callous, the Master of the Well, and face him in an epic final battle. Callous' Well is made up of four challenge cards, with Callous himself in the middle. As a challenge is defeated, another takes its place, with 57 challenge cards in total. As you face the challenges of the Well, you may play a skill card from your hand only when it matches the color of the challenge card, e.g., if you're facing a red challenge card, then you may play only a red skill card. Some cards have two colors, and some are white, that is, wild. If the card you play does not defeat the challenge, you'll be able to add some progress to it and attempt it again, though you may suffer a penalty for doing so. Other seekers can provide help by playing one of their own cards as a boost, but beware. Running out of cards nets you an exhaustion card before you can draw a new hand. Exhaustion cards are never good, but some are worse than others. Defeating a challenge provides you a reward, such as regaining health or delving deeper into the Well, which is represented by discarding unseen challenge cards. Once you've made your way to the bottom of the Well, you'll face Callous himself. All Seekers share a health pool, and if the pool reaches zero, you're defeated. This is a game that requires teamwork and persistence as the wells of Atios are unpredictable and quite dangerous. -description from publisher
Designer
Kevin Wilson
Artists
Katarzyna Bekus, Sandra Chlewińska, Wiktor Kozyra, Vesna "vesner" Redesiuk
Publisher
Incredible Dream Studios
Mechanics