Fearless Game Review

Any chance to play a new Friedemann Friese game is a chance I’m willing to take.

The designer, best known for titles such as Power Grid, Findorff, Faiyum, and last year’s Fishing, has released a new trick-taker called Fearless through his publishing arm, 2-F Spiele. I picked up a copy of Fearless at SPIEL Essen 2025, and recently got the game to the table for a couple plays.

Fearless uses a standard trick-taker ruleset—players must follow the suit led to begin a new trick, and the highest number in the trick wins. There is no trump, and if players don’t have a card in the led suit, they can throw off with any card they would like. But then, the rules get funny—because the cards range in value from negative six to positive six, sometimes the highest card is a negative number. And, the current score of each trick is announced as new cards are played, including cards that are not in suit.

That means in a four-player game, Gideon might lead a trick with a positive four…

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