Posts By Adam Roffel

Over the past few months, my father-in-law and I have been doing a deep dive in to the world of Fantasy Flight Games miniatures board games. We’ve played a good 25-30 hours of Journey’s in Middle Earth, about 10 hours of Star Wars: Imperial Assault, and about 15 hours of Descent: Legends of the Dark. While I believe that Journey’s in Middle Earth and Star Wars: Imperial Assault share a number of features that make them similar, Descent is a…

When you are a fan of adventure games, small boxes, and nordic stories, you might find a game like Vinland Caraventura very enjoyable. I love cooperative story based games, and have been playing them more and more over the past little while (check out our review of Adventures of Robin Hood for another narrative adventure). There are many Caraventura games available right now, so pick which one you think you might enjoy. Thanks to Kosmos, though, we are looking ...

We’ve been playing a ton of Imperial Settlers lately, the miniatures board game set in the Star Wars universe. We’ve done a lot with both the core box and the Return to Hoth expansion, but lately we’ve also been diving into the Jabba’s Realm expansion. With a ton of new miniatures and some great terrain pieces, let’s take a peak at this expansion, and let you know whether or not it’s worth picking up! As we said in our Return…

I’ve been playing a ton of Star Wars: Imperial Assault over the past few weeks, and the gaming group finally took a deep dive into the Return to Hoth expansion for the game. There is a ton of content included in this expansion box, but it is worth noting a copy of the core game is required to play. For those who want to extend their Star Wars: Imperial Assault experience further, Return to Hoth is an excellent pick up!…

Forges of Ravenshire available now on Kickstarter  will have you and friends competing with each other to fire up your forges and produce the best items in all the land. Through upgrades and contracts, players will earn gain resources, make products, and earn points. With some dice placement and little manipulation, does the game work as well as you might like? Let’s take a look. I will not be doing an in depth How to Play for this game, but…

We are always looking for games to play with our 9 year old son Lochlan. He is pretty good at learning and tackling games that are above his age range, but he also really loves to play things that are cooperative. When I saw that Kosmos had a new expansion for The Adventures of Robin Hood, I decided I really wanted to review the original. Lochlan loves to read, and loves narrative adventures, so The Adventures of Robin Hood seemed…

Whenever you review an expansion, it’s always hard to balance explaining the base game, plus all the new content. Thankfully, we’ve reviewed Scythe in the past  so you can head on over there and check our our opinion. The other tough thing about reviewing expansions is that for many games lately, these expansions have been campaign based, meant to be played over numerous rounds. Within each round, new content gets unlocked that players aren’t expecting. I ...

The board game industry is growing quicker than many people realize, and for the most part, it feels like the flashier titles rise to the top, while the more subtle, less appealing games sink to the bottom. All of this factors in look, not necessarily the experience of playing a game. When Asmodee Canada reached out with the opportunity to look at SETUP, I wasn’t overly interested. However, as a media member in the board game space, it seemed almost…

Over the past half week or so, I’ve been taking a deep dive into Disney Speedstorm, the soon-to-be free-to-play Disney kart racing game from Gameloft. Right now, as an early access title, the only way to get into the experience is to purchase one of the three founders bundles. Gameloft hooked me up with a copy of the game last week, and after almost a dozen hours across 7 tracks, I think it’s fair to say we might have a…

Over a month ago, Playmobil reached out to let us know they were launching a brand new line of Playmobil figures called, My Figures. With My Figures, Playmobil was giving children around the world the opportunity to create their own figures using a wide array of character pieces, instead of just accepting pre-created characters. This would allow consumers to create characters that were more representative of themselves. We looked at two of the My Figures sets ...