Red Rising BGG ↗

My BGG Comment

Inspired by Fantastic Realms and meshed with the YA IP… adds actual gameplay to the hand management scoring lottery that is FR. Each turn you play a card to one of four locations, get the card bonus and then take another card and that location bonus. March up the three tracks to end the game while getting he most combotastic hand. Cards that increase your handsize are übervaluable and topdecking a great combo can break the game. Still a beautiful game and preferable to FR any time for me. Rating 8 2026: I really enjoyed the books, at least the first 3 or 4 until the stakes got too high for me to continue reading (also this happens when I read series that are still on-going, I forget to come back for the next book). In any case thought this looked like a nice game based on an IP I enjoyed. When I got it I mostly played solo and enjoyed myself a lot. I couldn't quite understand why a lot of people didn't really enjoy this game. Then I played the game multiplayer. And the changing game state between turns with just 2 players enraged my Mitspieler so badly that I decided to never play it multiplayer again. But for reasons I quite like this somewhat bloated iteration on the simple formula of Fantasy Realms. With the bot the changing game state also happens but minus the human competition it doesn't bother me at all and it turns into a fun and endlessly variable puzzle that has a bit more game to it than Fantasy Realms if only a bit. Rating 8

• 2026: Yashima's Game Diary
  I really enjoyed the books, at least the first 3 or 4 until the stakes got too high for me to continue reading (also this happens when I read series that are still on-going, I forget to come back for the next book). In any case thought this looked like a nice game based on an IP I enjoyed. When I got it I mostly played solo and enjoyed myself a lot. I couldn't quite understand why a lot of people didn't really enjoy this game. Then I played the game multiplayer. And the changing game state between turns with just 2 players enraged my Mitspieler so badly that I decided to never play it multiplayer again. But for reasons I quite like this somewhat bloated iteration on the simple formula of Fantasy Realms. With the bot the changing game state also happens but minus the human competition it doesn't bother me at all and it turns into a fun and endlessly variable puzzle that has a bit more game to it than Fantasy Realms if only a bit. * Player Count: 1 * My current rating: * Total Lifetime Plays: 13 * Rules Retention: Decent. It is not hard to remember between games and wouldn't be difficult to teach. I have to look up the automa set up every time though. Just doesn't stick. * Keeper: Definitely. Such beautiful cards and combos and known characters. * Recommended: Fans of Red Rising who like a solo comboing experience. (I recommend the CE with the metal cubes, it just feels so nice) * Competition: Fantasy Realms (hand curation), One Piece Nakama (IP based games with lots of characters)
• Best in Class
• My Favorite Covers
  This looks better on the actual box than flat on the web. I like how it represents the IP and the game.
• My Solo Games
  Would not play this multiplayer. As a solo it is such a fun handbuilding game and so nice to handle the chunky metal cubes and beautiful cards
• Yashima's 2025 Top 20 Solo Games
  This is probably on the list because I am basing this list much more on actual plays than on "desire to play solos". I keep returning to this one as a solo--I would never play this multiplayer. It is a pretty big box but it is very nicely done and I have the little metal cubes and I enjoyed the books of the series I have read (first 3 or 4?) and the combos are just kind of fun to make. Solo Plays 2025: 3 Ranking last year: new entry
• Yashima's 2026 Top 20 Solo Games