Rolling in the Reef

Rolling in the Reef

BrainGoodGames · 2018 · Strategy, Indie, Turn-Based, Turn-Based Strategy, Board Game

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About Rolling in the Reef

Rolling in the Reef is a dice-driven strategy game about guiding your fishy friends to thrive in their coral home. You are a Sea Spirit, sent by Poseidon to skillfully manipulate a pool of fish-dice, repel reef invaders and dig up treasures in the sand.

Features:
  • Unlockable artifact powers and multiple playable "schools" of fish!
  • Weekly challenge mode with leaderboards.
  • Ladder/ranking system + procedural generation for endless replayability.
  • A satisfying strategic experience in 15 minutes or less.

The game combines and remixes many elements of euro-style designer board games like Castles of Burgundy, Troyes, Sagrada, and many more to create a thoughtful, interesting and deep experience. A large collection of unlockable artifacts and "schools" of fish together with BrainGoodGames' staple single-player ladder and random map generation ensure that Rolling in the Reef has plenty to explore.

Rolling in the Reef is the 6th game from Canadian game design studio BrainGoodGames, creators of Militia, Axes and Acres, SkyBoats, Minos Strategos and Solar Settlers. BrainGoodGames is committed to making fun, engaging single-player strategy games that combine random generation with a single-player ladder so you can enjoy our games for as long as you like!

Solar Settlers
http://store.steampowered.com/app/655480/

Militia
http://store.steampowered.com/app/421260/

Minos Strategos
http://store.steampowered.com/app/577490/

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Feb 10, 2024
Very good tutorial but plenty to be discovered. Excellent dice with FISH grid defense strategy game with rounds as the limiting factor, but you can take plenty of turns, only when being attacked is there urgency/ Different fish types have different # of pips range. Earn your way through levels that will add more stuff and weekly challenge is also different then the normally available game variants. Medium learning curve I suppose, but I highly recommend it! As you play it will adjust difficulty after each game so if you keep losing it will get easier, and you still get experience points when you lose. You lose if you don't make the minimum points required by the end of all the allotted rounds OR your main center fish gets destroyed.
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Not recommended Apr 15, 2023
No control over the difficulty - the game decides for you. Automatic thumbs-down.
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Recommended Feb 13, 2025
An enjoyable game from the Brain Good Games folks, this is a fun puzzle type game that works really well in short bursts. You can play a quick game or two (or more, of course) when you have a bit of time and don't want to commit a couple hours. The game does a good job of scaling the difficulty up as you get familiar with the rules, maintaining a good level of challenge. There are a bunch of things to unlock as you play, introducing new elements over time and keeping things fresh.
Recommended Jan 4, 2025
Simple and fun
Recommended Nov 14, 2023
I recommend this game to fans of euro board games looking for a very nice digital single player take on them. Similar vibes to Solar Settlers but the soundtrack feels less on point/theme than Solar Settlers and the gameplay while similar is also pretty different. I enjoy both but the soundtrack and visuals of Solar Settlers is superior. I'd love to see this game revisited by the dev someday with a soundtrack that has a more cohesive feel to it and more of an underwater vibe and possibly tweak the visuals just a little.
Recommended Jan 9, 2022
This game doesn't stand out too much in BrainGoodGames' library, being much like their other games, and I almost gave it a thumbs down for that reason. But I kept playing and it's growing on me. I still recommend checking out their other offerings first, especially Solar Settlers and Axes & Acres, but this is still a pretty good game for the money, especially on sale. [hr][/hr] EDIT: Oh [i]boy[/i] did this game grow on me. I wrote the above 2.3 hours in and now I've got ten times that. Definitely NOT a thumbs down. My only complaint is that it's far too easy, even with all the different schools of fish; I didn't lose a single game until I hit 85 wins or so. So I definitely recommend using placement matches to skip the easy levels unless you're very new to this kind of game. I still recommend Solar Settlers first, but this would be a fine second game. This game also seems a bit more casual-friendly than Solar Settlers (my mom, who's not a gamer, would probably like this game much more).

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