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25/09/2025

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🦒Am avut șansa să încercăm jocul Sanctuary înainte de data oficială de lansare. Având în vedere că Ark Nova este jocul meu #1, am fost foarte bucuroși să punem mâna pe Sanctuary, care promitea că este o versiune mai light a acestuia. Am jucat Ark Nova de aproape 200 de ori, este adevărat, majoritatea jocurilor au fost on-line, dar este un joc care m-a prins destul de mult. Ținând cont de asta, așteptările de la Sanctuary au fost mari din partea mea. Ce asemănări am găsit între cele două, ce mi-a plăcut și ce mi-a plăcut mai puțin puteți citi în rândurile de mai jos.

🦁Sanctuarul are selectia actiunilor din Ark Nova, aceasta fiind mecanica principala in care se invarte actiunea din joc, dar totul este mult simplificat, din numarul mare de actiuni si posibilitati pe care le ai in Ark Nova au ramas doar cateva, totul fiind redus drastic pentru a simplifica jocul si a il face mai accesibil.

🐵Citeste întreaga noastră recenzie în limba română pe: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3581737/sanctuarul-review-at-boardgamecolors-romanian-revi

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🦚We had the chance to try the game Sanctuary before its official release date. Since Ark Nova is my #1 game, we were really excited to get our hands on Sanctuary, which promised to be a lighter version of it. I’ve played Ark Nova almost 200 times—granted, most of those plays were online—but it’s a game that really hooked me. With that in mind, my expectations for Sanctuary were quite high. Below you can read about the similarities I found between the two, what I liked, and what I liked less.

🐍Sanctuary keeps the action-selection mechanism from Ark Nova as its core mechanic, but everything is much more streamlined. The large number of actions and possibilities you have in Ark Nova has been cut down to just a few, drastically simplified to make the game more accessible.

🦜Read the full english review here: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3581740/sanctuary-review-at-boardgamecolors

18/09/2025

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🦌Toamna doar ce a început, copiii au reînceput grădinița, totul a revenit la normal. Este încă vremea de plajă, deci copacii nu au căpătat culorile specifice anotimpului în care ne aflăm, dar va veni și acel moment în curând. Toamna este la fel de așteptată de animalele pădurii, cărora le place la nebunie să alerge și să se întreacă pe potecile cărămizii. Și să ronțăie gustări, bineînțeles.

🐰Avem la dispoziție 4 animale gata de cursă: ursulețul cel pufos, iepurașul cel țopăitor, veverița cea isteață și căprioara cea agilă. Jocul poate fi jucat deci cu până la 4 jucători, dar întotdeauna minim 2. Vârsta minimă recomandată este de 3 ani, fapt ce ne-a bucurat foarte tare pentru că îl putem juca cu mezina familiei, care are aproape 3 ani.

🐿️Forest First este perfect pentru copiii cu vârste cuprinse între 3 si 6 ani, fiind un bun start în lumea jocurilor de societate. Peste vârsta de 6 ani este posibil să fie considerat prea ușor și repetitiv pentru cei mici.

Citiți reviewul întreg aici: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3578173/forest-first-at-boardgamecolors-romanian-review

Jocul îl găsiți pe Raftul cu Jocuri www.raftulcujocuri.ro

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🐻Autumn has just begun, the kids are back in kindergarten, and everything is back to normal. It’s still beach weather, so the trees haven’t yet taken on the colors of the season we’re in, but that moment will come soon. Autumn is just as eagerly awaited by the forest animals, who love nothing more than to run and race along the brick-colored paths. And to nibble on snacks, of course.

🐇We have 4 animals ready to race: the fluffy little bear, the bouncy bunny, the clever squirrel, and the agile deer. The game can be played with up to 4 players, but always at least 2. The minimum recommended age is 3 years, which delighted us because we can play it with the youngest in our family, who is almost 3.

🌳The rules are simple and easy to grasp even for very young children. On your turn you draw a token from the bag. It will be either a movement token or a food token.

Read the full review here: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3578175/forest-first-review-at-boardgamecolors

16/09/2025

✏️What do you think about paper and pencil/flip and write/roll and write games? They are pretty simple right? And somehow also very satisfying. The feeling of seeing all these little boxes checked at the end of the game can make you really proud of the way you can use a pencil.

⚔️We tried a lot of games from the “write” area, and the majority of them were really simple and we enjoyed them all, until we hit our heads in Hadrian’s Wall. You know that feeling when it hurts, but you also like it? That’s how defending Hadrian’s Wall felt for us. The game was so addictive that it became our top #1 flip and write game. First it seemed really crazy having 2 pages with a lot of small check boxes, but after we played it, we wanted more. And yes, now we received more. After a few years The Anarchy was released, bringing more buildings, more boxes, more cards, more bloodshed, more of everything but also with differences and additional mechanics and a nice castle that you have to build and defend.

🗡️While the place where the action takes place stays the same, both games offering a look in the history of Britain, Hadrian’s Wall invites us in ancient times to defend the Roman Empire, and The Anarchy delves deep in the tumultuous period of 12th century England.

🏹Set in the English civil war in the 12th century, The Anarchy will throw you in the middle of the unpredictable medial warfare and power struggles between Stephen de Blois and Empress Matilda. And the prize is the crown of England. You will fight on the side of Stephen de Blois, building your own defenses and domain, but also building siege weapons and attacking the fortresses of Empress Matilda.

🛡️Are you ready to check some little boxes and help Stephen de Blois get the throne of England?

Read the full review here: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3577023/the-anarchy-review-at-boardgamecolors

Review copy from Garphill Games

15/09/2025

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Foarte puțini oameni pot spune că abia așteptă să facă curățenie. La copii e și mai și, preferă să facă orice altceva. Dar ce te faci când ai lăsat casa vraiște și știi că imediat o să ajungă acasă mama și tata? Ei bine, faci curat cât de repede și cât de bine poți, poate scapi de cicăleală.

Jocul Roomy Memo este un joc de memorie pentru copiii peste 4 ani în care trebuie să aranjezi toate lucrurile la locul lor, înainte ca părinții să intre pe ușă. Tensionant și rapid, poate cu ajutorul lui cei mici chiar vor învăța măcar puțin să își pună lucrurile în ordine. Și dacă nu se va întâmpla asta, sigur se vor distra copios jucându-se.

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Very few people can say they can’t wait to clean. For children, it’s even worse—they’d rather do anything else. But what do you do when you’ve left the house a mess and you know Mom and Dad will be home any minute? Well, you clean as fast and as well as you can, hoping to avoid a scolding.

Roomy Memo is a memory game for kids aged 4 and up, where you have to put everything back in its place before the parents walk through the door. Tense and fast-paced, it might even help little ones learn, at least a bit, to tidy up. And if that doesn’t happen, they’re guaranteed to have a lot of fun playing.

12/09/2025

🍉It’s a party in the Jungle and you are invited! But you are not only there for fun, you will have to also work a little! All the animals in the jungle are participating at the biggest party and they all count on you. So can we say you are the most important person at the party? Then let’s not disappoint them and give them all what they want! And what is that? Well, you have to make some fruit salad for them, but not any fruit salad… they are very picky and they each have their preferences. So let's put your cooking skills at work in this dexterity game.

👑The Monkey king has invited all his friends to take a seat at his table and try his favorite dish, the fruit salad. You have to prepare all these salads, but what may seem easy at first can become very complicated as the Monkey is a really pretentious King. And on top of that, you must do it really fast, as there are other players that want the attention of the king, and the first that delivers gains the most points.

🐵Do you have kids? If you read this review I suppose you do. And then you surely know how they eat, and how picky they are with their food. My son always asks me remove the mushrooms from whatever he eats, or if there are no mushrooms then the tomatoes, if there are no tomatoes he wants the bell pepper removed…it does not really matter, when he eats he always wants something removed from his plate. And that is this game really all about, to try to satisfy all the desires of the jungle animals, respecting their preferences and wishes when it comes to fruit salad. You know what they say... picky as a lion or maybe spoiled as a monkey.

Read the full review on https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3574889/fruit-cup-review-at-boardgamecolors

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11/09/2025

🤖Are you ready to save some cute robots? Well, ready or not, you’ll have to do it! Robo Rescue is a game published by Everland Studio, a team of passionate board game enthusiasts with a dream: to let you save as many robots as you can by reuniting them with their creators that are at the moment on a distant planet, one at the time. And beside this, Everland Studio has also another dream, to share amazing indie games with the world. You may know some of the members of Everland Studios from other games thay have published, from with their beautiful LUDOS games collections. And regarding Robo Rescue, you will also find some familiar faces in the game, the creators of the robots are the same as in the Robo Rescue Origins game, the one that was on Kickstarter a few months ago, and it had a special feature that everyone loved, it was FREE! Maybe a smart marketing campaign to promote the Kickstarter for Robo Rescue for which the campaign just started.

🚀So it all started in Robo Rescue: Origins. This is one small game where you will have to put your engineering skills to test by selecting components and building robots by using cards. Depending on the sets of symbols you will manage to do on these cards you will gain a certain amount of points. The game is quick and nice, but it’s not a must play or must have if you want to play Robo Rescue.

🛸The story continues in Robo Rescue, as you, the creator of the robots, have left the International Research Facility from Mars leaving behind 4 small robots. Mistake or not, the time has come to help them get back to you.

🪐The robots have to gather resources and repair the rocket engines of the space ship to be able to reunite with you. Of course you will not stand by with your arms crossed, you have to send them commands, help them and guide them through the maze of the facility corridors as they collect components and tools.

Read the full review on : https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3573307/robo-rescue-review-at-boardgamecolors

Review copy from .studios

02/09/2025

⚔️In Pax Viking, a board game published by , you take on the role of a Jarl that's strong enough to unite many jarldoms across the country, in order to become the first monarch of Sweden. But you're not the only one wishing this, your opponents want the same thing, so will your strategy be the best one?

🏹The action is set in the 10th century and is concentrated around trade and diplomacy. You'll have to form alliances, establish trade networks and extend your influence across lands. Vikings were not only fighters and raiders, even though this image of them is widespread. They were excellent farmers and settlers, traders, building vast trade networks as far as the Middle East and Central Asia. Vikings were also very good explorers and navigators reaching even North America, excellent shipbuilders, as we’ve seen their famous longships and even craftsmen, showing remarkable skills in metalwork and woodwork.

👑It is said that Pax Viking is the most accessible and beginner friendly from all the games in the Pax series, a famous line of medium to heavy strategy board games, historically themed, set in periods of great conflict, in contrast with the name Pax, that means “peace” in Latin. Pax Viking is a great entry point for newcomers in this Pax universe, the actions being simple and pretty straight-forward. Unlike the other Pax games in the series that were created by Phil Eklung, Pax Viking is designed by Jon Manker, but still in an obvious Pax style. I suspect they’re collaborating, as they are both lead designers at Ion Game Design.

Read the full review on: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3568840/pax-viking-review-at-boardgamecolors

Review copy from Ion Game Design

02/09/2025

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🦌Forest First de la este primul joc mai "complex" pe care am încercat să îl jucăm cu mezina familiei. Patru animăluțe decid să se întreacă în pădurea colorată de culorile toamnei, făcând diverse opriri pentru a mai ronțăi câte o gustare.

🐻N-a fost un joc prea pașnic, având în vedere că avem un copil pare-se posesiv, care nu vrea să își aștepte rândul, dar o sa învețe treptat, sper.
Jocul este rapid, durează cam 5 minute, este semi-cooperativ, însă la final va exista un singur câștigător. O să scriem despre el curând.

🐿️Jocul are reguli simple și o grafica foarte frumoasa, este perfect pentru copii mici dar și pentru copii puțin mai mari. Noi l-am încercat cu cei doi copii ai noștri, de 2 și 6 ani.

Jocul îl găsiți pe www.raftulcujocuri.ro

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🦌 Forest First by is the first “more complex” game we tried playing with our youngest. Four little animals decide to race through the forest, painted in autumn colors, making quick stops along the way to nibble on some snacks.

🐻 It wasn’t exactly a peaceful game, since we seem to have a rather possessive child who doesn’t like waiting for their turn—but hopefully they’ll learn gradually. The game is fast (about 5 minutes), semi-cooperative, but in the end there’s only one winner. We’ll be writing more about it soon.

🐿️ The rules are simple and the artwork is beautiful. It’s perfect for little kids, but also for slightly older ones. We played it with our two children, aged 2 and 6.

Review copy from Raftul cu Jocuri

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27/08/2025

🐪You know what all games from Allplay have in common? A really short rulebook! I am always pleasantly surprised to find a rulebook with only 2-4-6 pages in the box. I really don’t like to read the rules of a games, somehow I cannot concentrate if the rulebook is too long, and after that I really do not like to explain the game to someone else, so for almost all the games we play at home my wife reads the rules and after that, explains them to me. But with the games from AllPlay it's something else. When I see the little rulebook it’s like I’m gaining courage and nothing can’t stop me from reading 4 pages, and the thing is that they are simple enough that I can also present them to other players.

🐫Through the Desert is an old game. It is said that it is so old that Reiner Knizia was young and they only started to build the pyramids in Egypt so he inspired heavily from his trips to Egypt where he was supervising all the meeples doing their jobs. Unfortunately, the only way to travel through the desert was by camel, so in the long trips Through the Desert he had time to create a game that captured his experience. But from then to now, a long time passed and in that time Reiner Knizia didn't stay, so he had time to create a few hundred more games, some with camels, some with desert. But his old game was a really successful one, so he never forgot about it. So in 2024, together with the team from AllPlay, Reiner Knizia traveled back to Egypt where, in a secret tomb located in one of the pyramids, the board game was buried. After recovering the original game, on his way home, as they traveled again only on camels, Reiner Knizia had time to create an expansion for the game. That is how the game Through the Desert was revived and got a new set of clothes, which will rise to the level of the game in accordance with the times.

🌴 So let’s see what the game is all about, and after we will also take a look at the new things AllPlay adds to the game: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3566111/through-the-desert-and-a-visit-in-bazaar-review-at

Review copy Allplay

26/08/2025

👑As adults, we like games published by HobbyWorld, and as we’ve seen they also have kids games, we decided to give them a try with our 5 years old kid. The most attractive from the theme perspective was Escape the Dragon. Show me a kid who doesn’t love a friendly dragon? But what do you do when the dragon is after you?

🧙And how do you start playing a game with your kid than with a story?

🕸️It was a day like any other day. The small group of wizard apprentices were laughing and playing near the village. They did this every day after they finished their magic lessons, running and playing carefree in the little wood across the river. But today, while they were doing all sorts of tricks, practicing the spells they had learned in class, they heard a loud snoring coming from the clearing. When they got closer, they were greatly surprised to see a huge dragon sleeping, snoring loudly and blowing smoke from its nostrils.

🪵They must leave as quickly as possible from there before the giant dragon wakes up. The village is quite far away, and the fastest way to it is across the river. Will they manage to cross the river quickly enough? They will certainly be able to do it faster if they also use their spells.

🌲And now is the time a hero is needed, or maybe more heroes. The game plays between with 1 to 6 players, aged 5 and up, and one play takes about 15 minutes. We tried the game in 3 players, two adults and one kid, but the real hero was our little boy who took almost all the decisions in the game.

Read the full review here: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3565552/escapw-the-dragon-review-at-boardgamecolors

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22/08/2025

👑We didn’t try Karak I, with a lot of games that appear each year on the market, it can be quite hard to keep track with everything. Karak was released in 2017, but it was not on our radar at that moment. After that I have heard this name mentioned a lot of times, and always only positive things about it. But the cult of the new won and we never got to play it, constantly choosing newly released games instead of it.

🛡️Most of the time this game was mentioned by people with kids, saying that is a great game to play with children. This was one of the things that made me more interested in Karak, and I put it on my list of games that I want to play with my kid when he grows up. The game is recommended for kids aged 6+, but I heard that it can be played by kids even a bit younger. Even so my kid was a little too young at that moment and I decided to get the game when he has the appropriate age.

🏹But the moment has come that between the new games we found Karak II, and what a better moment to play it than now, we can shoot 2 rabbits with one bullet, try a new launched game and also see what Karak is all about. So yes, we’ve played it!

⚔️ Unfortunately for my kid, he did not try it, as he is 5 years old now, and Karak II's recommended age is 10+, and even tho community suggestion is 8+, he is still too small for it. But now, after we’ve played Karak II, it really made us curious about the first part, so we can turn our eyes on Karak. But first, let’s talk a bit about Karak II. How did we find it? Well, let’s see…

Read the full review on: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3563364/karak-ii-review-at-boardgamecolors

Review copy from ALBI Games and Puzzles

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