Posts By Adam Roffel

When I was at Canada Plays 2025, one of the games I got to play was Come Sail Away, a really fun, puzzly game about placing passengers on a cruise ship. I was originally excited about this after Mike Delisio from The Dice Tower talked about it again and again, putting it on Top 10 lists, and more. I had requested a review opportunity for this one a few weeks ago, and was pleasantly surprised when it was waiting for…

HordeCore Console Edition is a cross-genre experience on the Xbox Series X|S that offers players a post-apocalyptic world with survival, base-building, RPG, and collectible card game (CCG). It is created by Digitality Games and released by E-Home Entertainment. Players are tasked with leading a group of survivors, creating a sanctuary, and battling the undead in the zombie-infested wasteland. Essentially, HordeCore is a survival video game where one needs to ...

A few weeks ago, our own Kevin Austin took a run through Japan in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and thoroughly enjoyed his time with the game. Ubisoft Canada was nice enough to share an additional code on the PlayStation 5 for myself to play the game, and I was instantly blown away by the character building the team did early on in the experience. Assassin’s Creed Shadows starts pretty slow, and doesn’t really unleash you on the massive world for well…

Getting a mystery box at an event is one of the most fun things you can do. Generally, though, it’s a well known fact that mystery boxes are just full of things that a company wasn’t able to sell through regular channels, so they create some mystery around what you might get and entice you to make a purchase. That is essentially what Ravensburger is doing here with their latest Lilo and Stitch inspired ox, but there are a few…

We have been writing about our trip to Walt Disney World in March 2025, and all things considered, we absolutely loved our times in the various parks and at our resort. Thanks to the wonderful folks at Walt Disney Canada, we were setup with lightning lane passes for our various park days so we could enjoy the rides that are the most technologically advanced in all of Orlando. You can read about the tech marvels of Walt Disney World here…

There are a number of Playmobil sets that I classify as “addons” as opposed to complete sets on their own. These sets provide a number of great pieces that would make great accessories to larger sets you might already own. The Vegetable Garden with Grandparents set is the perfect example of this. My kids have a ton of Country themed Playmobil sets, and they love the mall. We have a number of tractors, a barn, and more that my kids…

Roxley released a brand new expansion for Santorini that we will hopefully be reviewing soon, but with that printing they decided to reprint the original game in a Second Edition and Pantheon Edition. Roxley was nice enough to send us a Second Edition printing of the game, so let’s take a peak at what the Second Edition brings, and whether Santorini is still worth purchasing / upgrading in 2025! In Santorini, players will be moving around with workers, ...

It’s been a while since we tackled a Leder Games title, but today we are playing what I like to refer to as Root-Lite! Ahoy uses unique player objectives and powers as players sail across open seas visiting islands, sinking ships, smuggling treasure, and so much more. If you want an experience that is lighter than Root, but still heavier than your average board game experience, look no further than Ahoy! Ahoy is a game for up to four players,…

Heat is one of the more popular racing games currently available at retail and for good reason – the game is great fun and really simple to play. There is some strategy in how your deck gets built out and when you risk those stress cards, but overall the game is pretty accessible to a wide variety of ages and folks with varying degrees of board game knowledge. We missed out on the Heat: Heavy Rain expansion which added a…

As I begin writing this article, I know some will call me a Nintendo fanboy, perhaps a shill, or perhaps even worse. I’ve seen far too many people writing negative discourse around the cost of Mario Kart World, $109.99 according to the most up-to-date pricing from Nintendo. I’m not here to say that the cost of Mario Kart World isn’t worth it for some folks; for those folks I say, “Wait for it to go on sale!” For my family,…