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A Gentle Rain has finally landed at GamesReviews.com HQ, and let me be the first to say that I’m so happy to have this game in my personal collection. I’ve played it before and enjoyed the experience, but never owned a copy myself. So how does such a simple experience create such a positive atmosphere? Let’s take a look. In A Gentle Rain, one or more players will lay tiles down on the table connecting similarly colored lily pads in…

A while back we wrote a few articles about an ongoing Kickstarter project called Cretaceous Rails. The game had players creating train lines through a jungle, touring guests and allowing them to see dinosaurs in the wild, capturing dinosaurs, chopping down trees, and more. The game seemed pretty unique in what it was trying to accomplish, but unique doesn’t always mean success. While our review of the game will be a bit yet, let’s run down what you get in…

Big, grandiose games are not something we review often at GamesReviews.com because they take so much effort to get tabled, and require a decent player count to fairly review the product. We get a lot of these types of games into the office, but not all of them make it to the review stage. When one does make it, you know we are working with something that’s a bit better than everything else. Storm Raiders is that game, and although…

About six weeks ago, I attended Canada Plays 2025 hosted by Asmodee Canada. At the event, I had the pleasure of connecting with AJ from Kolossal Games and while this specific game we are reviewing today wasn’t on the table for me to see, AJ opened up the Kolossal Games catalogue to me and I’m so thankful he did. Western Legends is a pretty old game at this point, but still one worth looking into. If you’ve been missing this…

Roll and Write, or Flip and Write games are a huge hit in the Roffel household, and for good reason. They are easy to transport, can be played almost anywhere, and are generally pretty quick while offering a great experience. Trails of Tucana ticks all of these boxes so it’s one that won’t be leaving our collection anytime soon. However, just because it works for us doesn’t mean it will work for you! Let’s take a look at Trails of…

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…

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? Let’s take…

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…

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 – The…

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…