Posts By Adam Roffel

WNext week I’ll be enjoying a few days at the Happiest Place on Earth! OK, I’m sure for many of you, a few days at Walt Disney World might not be that exciting, but for my family it definitely is. Here on the site we’ve written about Walt Disney World and Disney Cruise Line in the past, touching on all the amazing technology these places have to offer. With two trips booked this year, my wife and I wanted to…

I’ve never been a huge racing game fan, the only one I’ve really enjoyed to date is Camel Up, and that’s more about random betting than anything else. I’ve seen people rave about Heat: Pedal to the Metal for years now, and when Asmodee Canada reached out to ask if I wanted to review the upcoming expansion, I decided now as as good as any time to try out Heat. Before jumping into components, I want to say that companies…

Prototype copies of games are becoming more and more impressive as the years go by, and when I unboxed Scales of Fate from IV Studio I knew it was going to be something special. First and foremost, IV Studio produces some of the greatest games in my collection, including the very impressive Deluxe Edition of Fractured Sky and Moonrakers, a fantastic card game with great quality cards and metal coins. Even on their prototype, IV Studio went above and beyond…

Lemonade Stand has a charming production for younger board game fans, and I really like that about the title. It lacks some of the frills you might find in a more adult centric experience, but that doesn’t make this any less great overall. Outside of the fairly bland customer tiles, everything else here is pretty impressive! And with that said, let’s get the first bit out of the way first. The cardboard used in this game is very, very good.…

If a game has a connection to plants, my wife is likely going to love it. Regardless of the production quality of a game, my wife loves everything about plants! I’m a bit harder to please – while I enjoy the plant life that surrounds me every day in my home, I still like my board games to have some flair! Thankfully, for a game that could just be all cardboard, the design team behind Floristry wanted to make sure…

If you’ve wanted to get your hands on Two Point Museum ahead of its official launch next week, consider picking up the Explorers Edition which comes with a bunch of goodies, including 5 days early access! There is a lot more here than you might think, so let’s dive right in! The Explorers Edition of Two Point Museum is offering up a ton of goodies for just a few more dollars than the basic game. Yes, 5 days early access…

I might sound like a broken record at this point, but I’ve never been a huge fan of trick taking games, especially cooperative ones. I have great strategic thinking capabilities, but for some reason all logic leaves my brain when it comes to deciding which cards to play in a trick taking experience. While I enjoyed what The Crew was trying to do, it was never a game I wanted to play. With The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship…

There is a trio of board games now in Stonemaier Games’ “Span” franchise and overall I would say they are all really good games. As more come out, you begin to rank them based on how they play and what they do. Preference why, I prefer Wrymspan for a more involved game, and because of that, will probably never play Wingspan again. Finspan, on the other hand, stands alone in my opinion when compared to the other three. Let’s explore…

When I wrote how a theme could change my opinion on a genre of board games, I was specifically talking about the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Trick Taking Game. I’m not a huge trick taking game fan, and even though I’ve had good games of The Crew, I find them way too stressful to be fun long term. I knew, however, that the Lord of the Rings Trick Taking Game was going to arrive on…

Finspan is the third game in the -Span line of games from Stonemaier Games. We’ve previously had the chance to review both Wingspan (and its many expansions) and Wrymspan, so to get to try Finspan as well was a real treat! I know what to expect with a Stonemaier production, and based on Wingspan and Wrymspan, I was excited to see what this one would have inside. After all, those two previous games had amazing little plastic eggs to use,…