Dodos Riding Dinos Game Review

As a video game junkie from “back in the day”, I was disappointed with my play experience of Dungeon Kart, the Mario Kart-a-like board game released by Brotherwise in 2024. Some of Dungeon Kart was fine—it’s a great-looking production, and it was clear that the folks behind the game spent a lot of time trying to get that Mario Kart feel down just so.

But in execution, Dungeon Kart was a major miss, mainly because of its time orientation. Games of Mario Kart 8 on the Switch might take 2-3 minutes. Dungeon Kart, in one extreme case, took almost 90. And 90 minutes is too long for players to stay focused on flinging banana peels at opponents.

Enter Dodos Riding Dinos (2021, Detestable Games and Draco Studios), the game that I didn’t realize I was missing. It’s got great art, great miniatures, a very easy-to-parse rulebook with plenty of variants, and comes with four distinct racetracks that all have special rules and tracks aligned to player count built into the map design. Then it hits the home run by allowing me to drop a meteorite on the unsuspecting head of a rival.

Yes, That’s a Dodo On Top of a Dinosaur

Dodos Riding Dinos is a simple kart-style…

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