Rolling Heights

Roll meeple workers, push your luck and build the city up into skyscrapers in 1920s style.

Designer: John D. Clair
Published by: Alderac Entertainment Group
Editions by: Maldito Games, White Goblin Games, Game Harbor, Rozum, Tabletop KZ

It is the 1920s, you have just started a contracting business in a booming city, and your workers are meeples you roll. Standing meeples are hard at work and give you special actions and building materials. Face-down ones do nothing. You can push your luck for better rolls, but you might lose valuable materials you need to build. Complete buildings and you gain prestige and new workers to help raise even bigger structures, up to skyscrapers. Rolling Heights is a 2023 dice, pool-building and tile-laying game with a lot of pleasing tactile chaos. Solo mode is included, and two or three is the best table size. About an hour of rolling, risking and stacking.

Workers are meeples you rollStanding meeples act, face-down ones idleBuild up to skyscrapers for prestige

Who it's for

You like push-your-luck dice, tile-laying and building a city, and want a game with a solo mode and a roughly one-hour length.

Not for you if…

You dislike dice swings or want precise, deterministic planning. You will lose some rolls, and that is the point.

Vibe's take

Tactile and gamble-y. You roll, groan and rethink your plan, then push once more because the skyscraper is so close. Dice give you swings, but you choose how much to risk.