by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
Don’t have time to commit to a multi-game campaign across 3 acts and a prologue? i don’t blame you! The Battles expansion for Stars of Akarios supplies you with a book of one-shot encounters that you can just choose from at random. Minor rules...
by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
The Drones expansion for Stars of Akarios adds a sub-mission between the Prologue and Act I that introduces helper robots. These robots occupy some of the upgrade slots on your player board, in exchange for a variety of abilities to give you advantage in your outer...
by Ryan | Jan 14, 2019 | Game, How to Play
Roll for the Galaxy is a dice-based follow-up to the card-heavy Race for the Galaxy. Similar principles apply, but they’re two different games that complement each other nicely. Here’s how to play: (click to view transcript) Hi! It’s Ryan from Nights...
by Ryan | Nov 24, 2018 | Game, Unboxing
Being a fan of Race for the Galaxy, its partner game “Roll” always struck me as a cynical cash-grab. Someone at a board game conference changed my mind, and convinced me to pick up a copy. Here’s what was inside the box: Get Your Own Copy of Roll for...
by Ryan | May 19, 2018 | How to Play
With the Board Game Geek Top 100 Games list as his guide, a friend of mine bought a copy of Race for the Galaxy for me as a birthday present. We sat down at the table, and our minds boggled at the confusing array of shapes and colours. The immensely dense and bone-dry...
