Posts By Adam Roffel

Over the past few months I’ve had the great opportunity to table the Reef Project a number of times. At different player counts, and no matter who I am playing with, the experience has been phenomenal each and every time. Board and Dice is quickly becoming one of my favorite publishers in the board game space, and there is a good reason for it! Let’s take a look at the Reef Project – time to save those reefs! In the…

There is nothing quite like a Gacha machine, and I cannot believe that LEGO has released one through the LEGO Ideas program. This set looks phenomenal, with a real working gear system that drops the balls out of the dome and into the hands of greedy kids (I assume, could be greedy adults?). Either way, this set looks phenomenal – if there was ever a LEGO set I wanted to purchase that wasn’t from a specific theme, this would be…

Tucana Builders builds, pun intended, off the great work put into Trails of Tucana, although it cannot be stated enough that these games are wildly different, aside from the Tucans. That said, Builders do feel like a roll and write experience without the rolling or the writing. This experience feels light enough to be widely accessible, but with some strategy to keep veteran board game players engaged. My issue – how much does luck play into the game? ...

Our friends at Ravensburger, knowing how big of Disney fans the Roffel family is, sent over a TON of the latest Disney Lorcana chapter content. With big changes and card reprints coming, along with the removal of Chapters 1-4 from competitive play, Reign of Jafar marks the last set before the game gets an overhaul. The core concepts are remaining the same, yes, but a lot is going to change, and new stuff is coming! Let’s break down all the…

Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is easily my most anticipated game of 2025, and yes I am putting this game ahead of Donkey Kong Bananza and Mario Kart World. I’m excited for those games as well, but if you know anything about me, it’s that I absolutely love a good cozy game. I remember loving Fantasy Life back on the Nintendo 3DS and wasn’t sure if 1) I remembered it wrong and had too much nostalgia that…

Over the past few weeks, the team at GamesReviews.com has been diving into everything The Elder Scrolls. We have had team members looking at the Elder Scrolls V: Oblivion Remaster, team members looking into Elder Scrolls Online content, I have personally written up a review of The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era from Chip Theory Games, and now we are looking at another board game, this time from Modiphius. Let’s explore The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ...

Western Legends might just be the cowboy sandbox game I wanted to table with friends. I have a pirate themed game in that vein – shoutout to Dead Man’s Doubloons – but I’ve always wanted a great cowboy themed experience. Sure, I do enjoy BANG! and Colt Express, but that isn’t quite what I want. After just one game of Western Legends, I know that this is the cowboy game I’ve always wanted to play. But this isn’t our review…

Tokaido was one of the first games my wife and I purchased after getting married, and we’ve enjoyed dozens of games over the years. Our copy of the game is actually pretty beat up for how much we have played it, and I’ve always been in the market to replace it at some point. When I heard that Stonemaier Games had acquired the rights to the game, I was incredibly excited. With their track record of producing amazing products, I…

One of my favorite designers right now is the team at Bedouin Games, who have released a number of biblical themed board games. I’ve had the pleasure of previewing and reviewing The Flood, previewed Tower of Babel, and hopefully one day will get to play their newest Kickstarter adventure, 3 Magi. I like how this company takes Biblical stories and turns them into really good board games. Many companies have attempted to jump on the Biblical Board Game train ...

There is something very classy looking about Expedition: Northwest Passage HMS Terror Edition. This is a relaunch of the game Expedition: Northwest Passage which was released over a decade ago. The gameplay seems to be relatively unchanged, but the production has a fresh coat of paint. Is it worth investing your hard earned money in this product, in 2025? Let’s take a look at the components! What I’m struck by right away is just how gorgeous this game looks. ...