Flick ‘Em Up Review

Flick ‘Em Up is a game about setting up a small cowboy town on your table, then trying to complete various missions from the instruction book by moving your cowboys (and shooting the others) using nothing more than a flicking motion. The game looks and feel brilliant, and even the new plastic version has a satisfying weight to it which stops it feeling cheap against the original wooden version. The idea is to finish the game before the in-game clock hits midnight, but it’s the flicking itself that takes centre stage and delivers so much hilarity.

I think what appeals most to me about Flick ’em Up is how it combines so many things that myself and a lot of other people miss about what they played when they were younger. There’s the clipping together and positioning of the buildings in the town, the flicking system which feels instantly familiar to those who played a certain football game in the 80s and 90s and the fact that you’re playing at being Cowboys – it’s a big kid’s dream game, and that in itself is reason enough to keep an eye out for this when deciding what to buy next for your gaming collection.

So while this new version has ended up with plastic components, they’re still excellent and the game itself is certainly no worse off for it. Yeah, the general feel isn’t quite so up-market as the more premium wooden version, but for getting a few games in and just having a laugh this is an excellent, and lower cost version of a fantastic, highly enjoyable game.