Raas: A Dance of Love (2024)

Raas: A Dance of Love. This is an interesting title designed by our friend, Mihir Shah, and I’m still bummed that I never got to play it in prototype form.

The reviewer is very enthusiastic about the game's charming visual style and unique mechanical use of rotating gear dials for drafting and movement.

The reviewers from the Dice Tower highly praised Raas: A Dance of Love for its engaging mechanics and unique theme, with Tom Vasel rating it a 9.0 and Chris Yi giving it an 8.5.

“I'm giving this one an 8.5. I think it's an excellent game. I love the simultaneous, more or less exactly simultaneous, dice drafting and pairing those with those actions and everything.”(15:08)

The reviewers highlight the engaging spinning mechanics and overall appeal of Raas: A Dance of Love by Arcane Wonders, delivering a strongly positive impression of the game.

In Raas: A Dance of Love, players explore the nuances of traditional Western Indian folk dances. They will be tasked with leading a dance academy and gearing up their dancers with different Dress Swatches and Dandiya Sticks.

The reviewer highlights Raas as having a very fresh theme and a solid color palette, showing strong enthusiasm for its unique mechanics and table presence.

Raas: A Dance of Love is a gorgeous game of dice drafting and tableau building. Recruit dancers (dice) to join your troupe and help them find love matches as they twirl around the dance floor.

“But planning it and solving that puzzle so that you get like a perfect layout here is... it's a very satisfying but challenging puzzle.”(13:29)

Following a suggestion by a reader in the comments, I chose Raas: A Dance of Love as the final game of the day. Its theme and inspiration is Indian dancing and finding love through it, which is intriguing, but unfortunately didn’t come through for both me and the group that had played before me. Nonetheless, it was a very good game and if it hadn’t been a preproduction demo copy, I would have loved to pick up a copy.