It’s been nearly 3 years since Temple Gates Games, who brought us the wonderful digital adaptation of the award-winning Race for the Galaxy in 2017, had announced that they’d also be bringing that game’s spiritual successor Roll for the Galaxy to digital platforms “soon." It’s one of those things I probably would have just forgotten about or just figured was a dead project, but shame on me for being negative because just this past May Temple Gates reminded me that the project was in fact alive and well and looking for beta testers. Hmmm, beta testers. That usually means a game is preeettttyyyy close. And it was, as here we are three months later and Roll for the Galaxy is now available on iOS, Android, and Steam.
We’ve previously described Roll for the Galaxy as “a dice version of the popular Race for the Galaxy" and, while true, that doesn’t mean a whole hill of beans if you aren’t already familiar with Race for the Galaxy. In short, your goal is to create the largest and most prosperous empire in the galaxy by rolling dice, which act as your workers in your empire, and then utilizing them in one of five different phases each turn: Explore, Develop, Settle, Consume, and Produce. While this is in regards to the physical version of Roll for the Galaxy, this video from Youtuber The Board Game Vault is a nice and concise 3-minute overview of how the game works.

Roll for the Galaxy is a really clever game,...