The Family Gamers - Reviews

SNAP Review – Sheep in Disguise

November 8, 2024 Andrew Smith SNAP Reviews

Sheep in Disguise is a light family game with just a little bit of take-that. We did have some hurt feelings when players would “expose” another player’s sheep, which meant they were abducted when an attack card was played – but the game is light and moves quickly enough that we could pretty much get past that.

SNAP Review – Shaky Manor

September 7, 2018 Updated: February 24th, 2021 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

A unique dexterity game from Blue Orange Games. We’ll tell you about both modes of play for this speedy puzzle game

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Andrew, animals, Anitra, Blue Orange Games, dexterity games, ghost, treasure

SNAP Review – Shadows in Kyoto

May 25, 2019 Updated: March 20th, 2020 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

A two-player game of hidden identity. Move your agents across the board and try to get agents with *real intelligence* into your opponent’s home row.

SNAP Review – Secret Identity

September 6, 2024 Andrew Smith SNAP Reviews

I really like that this game is a net positive all the way around. There is only shared success in Secret Identity, which makes it a fantastic family game.

SNAP Review – Scribbly Gum

February 24, 2023 Updated: October 1st, 2023 Anitra Smith Hall of Fame Reviews, SNAP Reviews

We’re squirming with delight over this all ages game from Phil Walker-Harding. Can your scribbly gum larva collect the most food?

SNAP Review – Rush Hour

March 29, 2024 Andrew Smith Hall of Fame Reviews, SNAP Reviews

Can you get the red car out of the parking lot? Elliot discovers this classic puzzle game for the first time.

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Andrew, Elliot, puzzle, solo, ThinkFun

SNAP Review – Runemasters

February 22, 2025 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Runemasters is a tower defense game where every character’s abilities will add to the success (or failure) of the group.

There’s a lot of randomness in the setup and the gameplay, so it can be surprisingly hard.

SNAP Review – ROVE

November 22, 2021 Updated: March 10th, 2023 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

The Results Oriented Versatile Explorer (ROVE) has crash-landed on an alien planet. It must reconfigure its modules to navigate the planet and report back! Game ROVE is a game for one player, age 8+. It was designed (and illustrated!) by Dustin Dobson & Milan Zivkovic and it’s published by Button Shy. Art The art uses some familiar sci-fi and robot

SNAP Review – Roll to the Top: Journeys

May 5, 2023 Updated: August 7th, 2023 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Roll to the Top is a race. Your goal is to be the first person to fill all the spaces on your board, using the numbers rolled on the dice each round.

SNAP Review – Robots Ate Our Pizza

July 30, 2021 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Alien robots have come and challenged your group to a puzzle! Finish poorly, and they’ll eat all your pizza. Finish well, and… well, you’ll have some pizza left for yourselves to enjoy.

SNAP Review – Robots & Rockets LIGHTSPEED

December 31, 2018 Updated: August 20th, 2019 Nick Martinelli SNAP Reviews

Robots & Rockets: LIGHTSPEED is the second entry in the Robots & Rockets series from designer Sye Robertson. Now that you’ve mastered robot tourism, you must practice the art of building rockets. Did our rockets launch to lightspeed, or did this game fizzle out? Listen to our thoughts in under 5 minutes, or read on below.

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audio, card games, Family Games, Izzy, Kids, Nick, robot, Rule and Make Games

SNAP Review – Robots & Rockets

October 19, 2018 Updated: February 19th, 2021 Nick Martinelli SNAP Reviews

BEEP – Get the most robot tourists to their destinations in Robots & Rockets. Nick & Izzy tell us what they enjoy about this fast family game.

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audio, Izzy, Nick, robot, Rule and Make Games, spaceship

SNAP Review – River Wild

July 28, 2023 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

I love fantasy animals and mythology. How about a game that is all about saving the animals and providing them a safe home?

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animals, Anitra, Button Shy Games, fantasy, Milan Zivkovic, solo, Steven Aramini, tile laying

SNAP Review – Riftforce

February 11, 2022 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

We generally like two player battle games. The setup here of facing-off across a “rift” felt familiar, but with a new deck-mash-up mechanic that is very cool.

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1 More Time Games, 2 players, Andrew, Anitra, battle, Capstone Games, video

SNAP Review – Rhino Hero Junior

September 6, 2021 Updated: June 30th, 2025 Anitra Smith Hall of Fame Reviews, SNAP Reviews

Anitra reviews this game for very young children. They’ll practice stacking, matching, memory, and sequencing.

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Anitra, build, dexterity games, HABA, matching, My First games, stacking, toddler, young children

SNAP Review – Railroad Ink: Archipelago

November 1, 2024 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

These Archipelago boards match perfectly with the rest of the Railroad Ink universe… it’s just BIGGER. (And that’s good!)

SNAP Review – Race to Stupid

February 18, 2022 Anitra Smith SNAP Reviews

Race to Stupid is a party trivia game that is surprisingly good for anyone who can read, write, and make up funny statements.

SNAP Review – Quirky Circuits

July 24, 2020 Updated: September 19th, 2022 Anitra Smith Hall of Fame Reviews, SNAP Reviews

Quirky Circuits combines programming and multi-player cooperative play in a way we’ve never seen before. Players try to cooperate to get the robots to do the right thing; but what one player thinks is “right” might not match what another player intends.