Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Send prehistoric tribes into an unexplored landscape, reveal new sites, gather food and inventions, and leave huts where later workers can follow.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Fire & Stone is an exploration and worker-placement game about the first human migrations. Players move tribes across a face-down landscape, revealing locations, collecting food and inventions, and constructing huts that establish a growing presence. Each site offers a small tactical choice, while objectives and end-game scoring encourage distinct routes through the same emerging world. Klaus-Jürgen Wrede’s design keeps the rules approachable while using discovery, timing, and spatial competition to make every map develop differently.
