Racing Line | The F1-based board game for everyone | Board game for families and adults | Age 8+

Great game

Great game! I bought this as a present for my brother who is an avid F1 fan, I don’t know the first thing about F1 but it was really easy to understand and get into! Great balance of luck of the dice roll and strategy, it definitely brought out the competitive side of us. It will be coming out at the next games night!

Have not played the game yet but looks like fun. Only comment is that Amazon web site states 2-8 players but actually is 3-8

Simple to play and great fun.

Love this game. My boys became F1 fans recently and when i saw this i knew they would love it and they do. You don't have to be an F1 to enjoy it either, fun for all the family id say.

It’s fairly straightforward and the perfect rainy day board game option. I don’t know much about F1, but I know my other family members love it and by extension, I thought they might enjoy this - they did!

The gameplay mechanics are all a bit facile, which significantly harms the replay value of a game that - as per the opening paragraph of its rules - is designed to be repeated half-a-dozen times every sitting.It's very pricey for something so simple; compared to a genre-leader like "Formula D", you're losing more in value than you're saving in money.The production is fine - the board is sturdy enough, it's got accessories to handle all the various fiddly bits of admin that the game design expects you to track (turn order, scoring, etc. It comes with a pencil and printed notepad for tracking race results, etc). So it's not like there's no value at all inside the box or anything.But the game design has very little depth to it. Which is fine for particularly young children who will quickly run into decision paralysis or make really bad choices if given lots of options - but isn't very good for any remotely sophisticated audience.Unlike Formula D - where the mechanics emphasise a trade-off between speed and risk-taking in the racing; movement is entirely decided by one six-sided dice. Glorified snakes-and-ladders territory in terms of simplicity.A small amount of complexity is added by players having "event cards" (one per race, with 6 races per gaming session expected) they can play: But these are handed out randomly too, so while there is some strategy involved in how and when to deploy them (and whether you want to use more on one race at the cost of losing them in another), it is pretty much the only element of strategic play in the game.Because movement is dictated by the die, you have a very narrow selection of decisions to make at any moment - usually with one obviously optimal one.So while on any given turn you can feel that your position relative to other players shifts quite a bit based on their dice rolls, and the entire game is pretty much navigating the randomly distributed cars each turn, it doesn't feel like your decisions are what are influencing how the game plays.In that sense, it's a bit pricey for quite a superficial experience. Compared to the depth of gameplay in other similarly themed titles, it's not really good value for money.

This game looks really good if you're into your racing or F1. We have yet to play so will update review when we have.