Red Rising Board Game – Review

Why are you not showing us the game?

The books are so good! Before knowing anything about the game, I really thought that the game would be based about starting at the red level and trying to work up the caste system until you reached gold level. This gameplay seems fun too. Excited to try the game out this week!

For the books characters sometimes I'm like " why they look like that " but oh man, when I saw Cassius I'm like " oh yeah. . . that's him. . . that's him nodding in approval "
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-" stuck with what you have " could also be " work with the cards you're dealt with " and that is very much what The Institution is about, you get allocated and alright. . .figure it out, and I mean, I think there's a fair amount of that in the books, making what you can out of the situation
-The Sovereign within the books does hold a good amount of power so it makes sense that the token is weighed with a fair amount of points
-the no " direct interaction " also kinda makes sense from the books, like, there's stuff that happens where it's very much a consequence of actions taken rather than heavy handed, it's a display of soft power

I very much like the book series, but do not really enjoy Stegmaier designs. This will probably be a game where I play a few times at a game cafe, then never think of it again after the novelty of seeing the illustrations wears off.

Coming back to say I'm on book number 3 in the series and Monique, you were absolutely right! So so good and now I'll be purchasing the game soon. I'm curious if you have a favorite character in the books?

Thanks…we are going to be playing next week. Loved the play through too. We really appreciate the play throughs!

Hi guys. First of all great video! I was considering to get this game or fantasy realms as I wanted to try this style of games. Which one would you recommend to play 2 players most of the time?

I love his shirt. I want one.
And now I also want to play Fantasy Realms.

I just received my copy the other day and have played it twice with only two players. I would certainly say that the cards became kind of stagnant and very little changed. The weird part was, the bottom cards are kind of hard to get to. I wish there were more options during the turn to expose more cards. Just felt very limited. Will be trying it with 4 players in about a week so we shall see.

My opinion is, Fantasy realm is good game (besides you like it or not), and has a price arround 20$? THis will cost double at least, with less complexity card-wise but more tracks… I think I wont buy it. I will still waiting for a trully good game from SM, its been a long time since Scythe

You guys should check out the storm light archive edition of Call to adventure.

Love how articulate you both are!! Thank you!

Hey guys! Big fan of the Red Rising series here (favourite books ever, read all of the 5 ones :D), before seeing you review I was considering waiting and buying the retail version, but after that, just went on and checked out the preorder. Great overview, much appreciated!!

Thanks for the good review – subscribed.

Regarding the house tiles, Jupiter goes up exponentially 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28 then starts going down 34, 39, 43. Whereas Helium is worth 3 for every one: 3, 6, 9 etc. So you would need to progress 5 times on Jupiter's fleet track before you start to make more points than Mars. I think that is actually quite well balanced. You made it sound like you were scoring Jupiter every time you progressed, where in fact you just score once at the end of the game depending how far you have moved up the track.

I can see a place for both FR and RR in a collection. Take care.

There is so many games now on the market. So if the game is just fun not amazing why we, need spend time for that? There is a lot amazing games around 😄😄😄😄

I did not know that this game had come out. I will definitely need to check out the Collector's Edition. While I am not familiar with the theme/books, we always like to check out Stonemaier games. Thanks for the review!

Yay! Finally got through it and again, appreciate that opening tid bit on the solo mode 😉! Interesting take and appreciate the balanced review as well! Also the added playthrough helps as this games one im in the fence with even though I love Stonemaier and just started the books 😋. Thanks again always love the content!