Stonespine Architects is a card-drafting game set in the Roll Player universe where 1–5 players compete as aspiring dungeon architects to construct the most perilous labyrinth. Players simultaneously draft and place chamber cards each round to build out custom dungeons floor by floor, balancing market purchases, treasure, and challenge cards to maximize their score.
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The Verdict
based on 27 reviews
“As for myself, I lost track of how many games I played of Stonespine Architects because I could not stop playing it, and I kept wanting to show it to more and more people.”
“The puzzle of how you want to build out your dungeon and how you're going to add stuff to it and stuff is really fun. I love the like puzzle of it at all.”
“Overall, I love Stonespine Architects. Jordy Adan just gets the kind of games I like, I think, and between this and Cartographers I've been really pleased with the Roll Player larger universe. Tons to like, here.”
“Mine is [Stonespine] Architects from Thunderworks Games. I like the different focuses that you can do to try to get points, and also uh just this world that Thunderworks has had, I enjoy revisiting it yet again, so check out Stonespine Architects.”
“If you like games about building out a map, especially with a bit of a puzzle to them, you should check out Stonespine Architects!”
“I'm not at an 8.8 but I'm definitely at 8.3 I think it's a really good game I really like it it uh is one that I keep wanting to come back to as well”(25:33)
“And if you haven't noticed, there's a lot going on in this game. Like, it's not like mechanic-heavy. It's like choice-heavy. Yeah. Right. And I really like it. Like, this is a sleeper hit.”(6:50)
“I just enjoy how simple yet kind of puzzly and it's sort of relaxing but also a little bit tense this whole experiences”(0:15)
“All in all this is a great, and possibly somewhat under-rated game that I'd definitely recommend!”
“I really enjoyed it here. I thought it was really, really well done, very well-designed, very interesting to play. Uh, I played this one a lot and I kept coming back to it because I just thought it was so much fun and it was so quick and so fast.”(10:27)
“I think for this game I'm probably going to give it a seven and a half I I think it's there's not a lot of meat to the game but I think it's got enough enjoyment in it”(14:39)
“Um higher than I thought it would be. It's an eight. I enjoy it. I was thinking it was going to be, you know, a mediocre kind of game, but I really enjoyed what I was doing.”(12:17)
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