The race to escape Earth has begun! With the world’s nations in decline, powerful corporations now stand as humanity’s last hope. Take the reins of one such corporation, as CEO, and venture out into space. With your mission in hand; build ships, collect resources, research technologies, survive the dangers of space exploration, and, while ticket
The race to escape Earth has begun! With the world’s nations in decline, powerful corporations now stand as humanity’s last hope. Take the reins of one such corporation, as CEO, and venture out into space. With your mission in hand; build ships, collect resources, research technologies, survive the dangers of space exploration, and, while ticket sales hold steady, preserve the human race. Remember to stay a step ahead of competing corporations, which can use slick marketing campaigns and 10 cent tchotchkes to buy the loyalty of the people you just saved from certain doom!
Players are rewarded points for sticking to the mission and building colonies, and saving colonists. As you are a CEO you are also rewarded points for filling the Corporate treasury, and building the company’s value proposition by retaining rights to the best technologies. Game play is fast, and exciting. Events, and the vast variety of hazards that space has to offer will keep you on your toes, and your underlings busy on the paperwork for decades to come!
The game is played in 5 phases: Research, Fleet, Management, Revenue, and finally First Player Turn Auction. All players will complete each phase, in turn order, before proceeding to the next phase. This helps to keep the game moving, and keeps players engaged. In Research phase players can pay to research, or choose to license another players tech. In the Fleet phase players get one action with each ship they own. The Management phase is when players build new ships, special tech items, and sell technology to the public domain. The Revenue phase is when players collect their hard earned resources, including a small stipend from their home office on Earth. And finally, the turn auction phase is a bidding war for who goes first. Not that important at the start of the game, but monumental for the end.
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Quality game Very fun game. There are a few downsides – some of the rules are not clearly worded, a few of the special technologies conflict with each other, and the end-game can become almost overwhelming with tons of technologies in play. The basic game idea involves exploring and colonizing new worlds, with the main challenge for each player being to balance exploration, colonization, research and shipbuilding. Play always moves around the table fairly quickly as each round is broken into smaller…
Great game I got to play this game at a friend’s house a couple of nights ago. How would I describe this to others? It’s almost as if you took Settlers of Catan, moved it up into space, and added some twisted, dark humor to it. Yeah, I know, that really simplifies it a little too much, but how else could one describe it? There’s a catastrophe about to hit Earth and you must get all the people off of it and establish new colonies. You don’t know exactly when the disaster’s going to hit, but you need…
Disaster Is… Kinda There The game is okay. It’s a bit hectic, the rules aren’t well developed. Definitely could use some errata for a website with a FAQ. Overall, I played it at a friend’s and wouldn’t buy it myself. It’s fast paced, which is good, but kind of uninteresting when similar games that are better developed exist, like Catan, Carcasonne, etc.Not recommended unless you’re really into collecting board games.