Roll for the Galaxy

Board Game Geek Reviews

1. 8 out of 10

   ahken07

   Very fun and short game. It's surprised that there is depth in the racing part where you would prefer to build engine or rush for the ending by building cheap stuff. Definitely want to play this anytime. Wondering how good after add in the expansion

2. 4 out of 10

   adebisi

   I am genuinely amazed. A dice game that is actually harder to teach and more complicated than the original game. And still, Roll for the Galaxy manages to be shallower and a less satisfying experience. RollftG does not offer the same agonizing trade-offs as its mother because you are not closing doors when paying for the cards in your hand. The only good thing left in RollftG is the action selection and leeching, which is now twice as complicated as before. Usually you would expect complex games to have a lot of depth, since you are balancing between many things, but not in RollftG. You just have a number of choices with a myriad of restrictions but none of them seemed very interesting. Due to the unnecessary and non-rewarding complexity and the lack of trade-offs, I most likely won't play this again.

3. 9 out of 10

   40crew

   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.