Rollie Game Review

If you’ve played the game Hot Streak as many times as I have, you notice what happens when the game is played in the right environment versus the wrong one.

In the right environment, Hot Streak is all about screaming. You don’t really notice that the game’s ruleset is shockingly light on actual decisions, you yell as you shout obscenities at a hot dog mascot pawn, you gamble paper money on side bets that are more ridiculous than anything you’ve seen on last week’s episode of Love Island USA, and then 30 minutes later, you go back to a boring life of entering data into spreadsheets. (Hopefully, your life is more exciting than mine.)

In the wrong environment, Hot Streak has no screaming. And when no one is yelling, almost every gameplay problem it presents comes to light. I’ve only seen this once, but it was quite telling. Hot Streak is an experience, one that I think is convincing people that it is a great game, but the one time I saw it with zero screaming, I openly wondered how this game made it this far without anyone else noticing how fragile its system can be in the wrong hands.

Rollie (2025, Randolph) is, in the right environment, an absolute blast. I mean it. When I saw it…

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