Board Games Reviews

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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, building structure,…

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…