Posts By Adam Roffel

Disney Villainous is one of my family’s favourite games, and thanks to Ravensburger we’ve had the opportunity to not only review many of them, but own almost all of them! Recently we were sent Star Wars Villainous: Scum and Villainy to review, and after a few times at the table, I think it’s one of the more balanced Villainous boxes that has been released yet. Still, are each of the experiences on their own worth playing, or are fun to…

Over the weekend I got my first taste of using the Jedi Hunters Squad Pack. My squad included the Grand Inquisitor, Reva, and the Fifth Brother. My father-in-law did a great job painting up the miniatures, and they looked phenomenal on the table. Understandably, I paired up the inquisitors with Darth Vader, a worthwhile match in my opinion. But while it was also the first time I was personally using Darth Vader in my squad, it was actually the Inquisitors…

I’ll be honest – despite how much my kids love each and every LEGO Super Mario set that comes into the house – whether for review or purchase – I’ve begun to wonder what would be next from LEGO and Nintendo. The sets are always fantastic, as are the figures they are creating. But after a while, you wonder when they branch out from the Mushroom Kingdom thing and into something else. With the launch of LEGO Super Mario &…

I’m not really a big fan of party games, but Dixit has always been one of my favourites. I love the gorgeous artwork and trying to come up with clues to fool some of my friends, but not all of them. I enjoy how the scoring mechanisms work – you want someone to guess yours, but not everyone! – and I love how quickly the game runs. Even if you are far behind in score, it’s the kind of game…

If a game has cute wooden pieces included in the box, there is a solid chance it’s something I’m going to enjoy. I’m only half kidding, of course – I’m not going to play a really bad game just because it has animeeples, am I? Am I? Thankfully, Emerge from Pandasaurus Games is bringing a familiar concept to the table but in a whole new way, and after playing half a dozen games over the past week or so, I’m…

GenCon 2023 has come and gone, but one of the highlights of my weekend was interviewing Disney Lorcana designer Ryan Miller. During our 20 minute interview, Ryan and I chatted about how Lorcana came to be, some of his favourite cards, and what the actual targeted demographic was for the game (hint, it wasn’t kids!) You can watch the entire video below, but I will post some of the highlights as well! Disney Lorcana was code named Project Famous during…

I’m a really big fan of card drafting games, so when I saw After Us being demoed at GenCon 2023, I knew it was a game I wanted to play. Thanks to our friends at Pandasaurus Games, we had the chance to take a copy home with us! After unboxing it over on the No Shelf Space YouTube channel, I’ve decided to lay it all out here in print for mas well! Let’s dive in and see what comes in…

I’ve never been much of a fan of tabletop war games, but when many of those mechanics are translated to a board game, it’s probably something I will be interested in. Old Salt isn’t the most flashy of board games (at least not without the Naval upgrade kit), but the core gameplay is well done providing a lot of choice, and giving you that feeling of playing a tabletop war game. After a few times on the table, how good…

Our good friends at Ravensburger North America sent over the Lord of the Rings: Adventure Book Game while I was away at GenCon, and of course my son Lochlan hopped into it as soon as he could. Let’s take a quick look at how the game plays, and provide some thoughts on the experience as a whole! The Adventure Begins – How to Play In Lord of the Rings: Adventure Book Game, players will work together to complete chapters of…

Water guns are something my kids really enjoy, and we’ve purchased more than a few over the past few years. We’ve had expensive water guns, and dollar store water guns. We’ve had complicated guns and really simple guns. We’ve never had an automatic gun that runs off an internal battery, however, at least not until the automatic water guns from Spyra arrived. Let’s take a look at what these things can do! The guns have quite a bit of weight…