Crafting the Cosmos Game Review

Kev shrugged his shoulders.

We had just finished a four-player game of Crafting the Cosmos. The game is a new release from Office Dog, an Asmodee studio responsible for recent hits such as River of Gold and The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking Game. While I was less enamored with Office Dog’s first release, Word Traveler, I have enjoyed my plays of River of Gold and I’m told I need to try that trick-taking experience ASAP.

I asked Kev for more thoughts…why the shrug? “[Crafting the Cosmos] was just OK,” he said, then the two other players who joined me for that game also shrugged their shoulders, providing a glimpse into how I eventually felt about the game. “This is the kind of game that I would probably only play on Board Game Arena, if at all.”

As it happened, I had already played Crafting the Cosmos twice on BGA to ensure I had the rules down, and immediately after we finished that in-person play, I hopped online to play it again. Some of the games I table nowadays give me that feeling, especially the games that seem to lean hard into a “multiplayer solitaire” design format. Despite the fact that I was physically sitting with three other people while playing Crafting the Cosmos at…

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