Roll for the Galaxy

G

Plays quickly, easy to learn, lots of fun.

Location: MSK

Loved it at first, and played constantly. Burned myself out on it a bit, but it's still brilliant, and be few games would take this many plays before it started to feel old.

Another game that is STRICTLY WORSE as a boardgame as opposed to being a PC game.

• Yay dice.

• We secretly roll dice and secretly assign them, behind a screen. What?! This is the greatest invitation to cheating i have ever seen in any game. "Don't play with cheaters." Don't design games to have glaring holes that can be exploited at any moment by anyone without any consequences.

• Zero interaction. Literally. Zero. Interaction. The game has four hundred components and they manage to put ZERO interaction in. Invade others' planets. Work together on some developments. Trade goods. Kill their workforce, fight with ships, bribe, bluff, negotiate... Nope. None of it. The game BEGS to be interactive and they manage to destroy all traces of life in it. Shut up, sit down, stare at your part of the game, collect points, go home. Singleplayer multiplayer boardgames are the worst.

• There's no reason to play this live. You gain NOTHING from playing live that you couldn't gain online. That's a mark of a miserable game. It is only more fiddly, clunky, chaotic, slow.

• A bunch of rules that flavorfully make no sense. The kind you put in to make the game flow exactly as planned, with no regard to flavor. Another classic example of good game design.

2.5/10 Enjoy your spot in the top 100, Roll. You're everything that most BGG raters want.

Played at game day and thoroughly enjoyed the play. Had just previously played New Frontiers (my introduction to the 'series'. I know I'm a late comer). It's nice change up to the phase order function. Not sure Roll would end up as my favourite of the series but i'm enjoying exploring them all (eventually).

Towerex insert

Kinda hard to get into in the first game, but after two games, we looked at each other, and declared our love to the game.

Will bring it for our vacation, and hope to get many, many games under our belt there.

It's hard to give a review after just two games, especially with a game like this, but you could just feel there is something to it. We kept starving us selves from resources, but once our little machine started going, it was just so satisfying. Highly recommended.