Seek out and wake the sleepwalking residents of Azrium
At Goose Games, we’re always hunting for titles to feature and sharing games that we love. If you like games that are “beautiful, quick, and clever” then Roam by Red Raven Games was made for you.
Roam drops you into the fantastical land of Arzium, the shared universe behind beloved titles Near and Far, Above and Below, and Islebound. A mysterious sleeping sickness has taken hold, sending every creature roaming in a dazed trance across hundreds of miles. Players compete to find these lost adventurers, wake them from their sleepwalk, and recruit them into their growing search party.
How It Plays
The board itself is built from cards — each of Roam’s fifty-plus unique tarot-sized adventurer cards has a landscape on its reverse side, split into a grid of six squares. Six of these landscape cards are arranged into a 3×2 grid at the center of the table, creating a living board that changes shape every game.
On your turn, you activate one of the adventurer cards in your party by flipping it face down. Each adventurer lets you place search tokens onto the board in a specific Tetris-like shape. Once every square on a landscape card is filled, the player who contributed the most search tokens claims it — and with it, the lost adventurer illustrated on the other side joins their party.
Along the way, you can earn coins to purchase powerful artifact cards that give you special abilities, adding a layer of strategic depth that keeps seasoned gamers engaged while remaining accessible to newcomers.
Roam plays in 30–45 minutes and works with 2–4 players. The rules take less than 10 minutes to teach, but the spatial puzzle of token placement keeps every turn genuinely interesting. Best of all, the art — created entirely by local game designer Ryan Laukat — is the kind you’ll want to linger over between turns.
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