Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition First Impressions

In Railroad Ink, you’re rolling dice and building a transport network.

Just be sure to avoid all those Rivers and Lakes.

In the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. You have to draw these routes on your erasable boards to create transport lines and connect your exits, trying to optimise the available symbols better than your opponents.

Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition First Impressions

Ah, roll and write games… You are plenty and you are good.

Qwixx is still my favourite. No downtime, indirect player interaction and very simple rules. Like Railroad Ink, you have space to fill and you need to do it well.

I played Welcome To… right before playing Railroad Ink and I really enjoy that game too. You have options, no downtime and… not as much interaction? I mean, I don’t care about that too much but I know many people do. I’m happy playing an enjoyable ‘multiplayer solitaire’ game as long as it IS enjoyable.

There are plenty of others but right now these two are my favourite and my new hotness 🙂

Moving away from Roll and Write games, this is a puzzle game. A route-building puzzle game. It VERY loosely reminds me of Metro. (Video in my Essen 2017 Reviews list) Where you’re building routes around the board not really knowing what you’re going to be able to play one round to the next. You also are trying to connect exits up so there’s a link there.

The dry wipe boards and pens work well. I prefer this to a thick pad of sheets that are one use. The boards themselves are really nice, as are the branded pens which come with eraser pads on top.

The dice are actually big and chunky and quite nice too.

The Rivers expansion is fun. It interrupts your rail/road route building enough that it’s a challenge without actually adding too many extra rules. The rules for Rivers are almost the same as the Rail and Road rules.

I haven’t played with the lakes yet but they look more complicated. They ARE extra rules, not many, but some. That might change it for me to ‘too much’.

I have the Blazing Red edition too but have yet to play that.

Jesta ThaRogue