Somewhere in a York garage, a laser cutter is quietly turning out one of British tabletop's most unlikely success stories. Eurydice Games, the UK indie behind the dexterity space game FlickFleet, has neared £400,000 in revenue over eight years, and it has managed it by hand-making every single copy it sells.
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Set up your group for freeFlickFleet is a game you play with your fingers. You flick little ship tokens across the table to move them, then flick again to fire lasers at your opponent's fleet, a physical and genuinely funny take on space combat that launched in 2018 and has since picked up six expansions. What makes the company remarkable is what happens once the design is finished. Rather than sending a manufacturing file off to a factory overseas, founders Jackson Pope and Paul Willcox laser-cut and assemble the games themselves in Willcox's garage.
According to BoardGameWire, that garage has turned out more than 7,000 FlickFleet boxes and over 400,000 individual laser-cut components. Roughly £250,000 of the near-£400,000 total came through crowdfunding, with the rest from direct website and convention sales. The in-house approach also lets them do something most publishers cannot: economically reprint older games in runs as small as 100 copies, so nothing has to go out of print just because a factory wants a five-figure minimum order.
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See how it worksIt is a proper cottage-industry story in a hobby obsessed with scale. Eight years and six expansions in, FlickFleet has built a devoted following for its tactile, flick-and-pray combat, and the standard edition runs £35 direct from Eurydice with the deluxe at £55. The next expansion, Box of Xeno Flicks 2, heads to Gamefound in October. If you have ever wanted to back a UK maker who has genuinely handled every copy of the game on your table, this is about as hands-on as it gets, and a fine excuse to get a group together.
Sources: Eurydice Games | BoardGameWire
