Game Info
Year
2023
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
75 min
Complexity
2.5/5
Collection
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Description
A tenth-anniversary edition of the dice-placement classic that folds the Factions and Outer Belt content into the base game
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Very easy to learn
- Not a hard game to learn at all
- Can be mean which adds to the fun
- There's always something fun and interesting to do
- Simple and straightforward gameplay
- Enjoyable dice rolling and manipulation
Cons
- Didn't quite love it (compared to Ray's love for it)
Thematic elements
- dominate outer space
- outer space
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players aim to gain control of regions on the alien world to achieve benefits.
- Dice Rolling — Players roll dice at the beginning of each round to determine actions. The game is described as a 'dice throwing game'.
- Resource Management — Players collect and utilize resources like ore and solar energy.
- Set Collection — Players attempt to make combinations of dice to unlock more dice from the board and achieve objectives.
- Worker Placement — Players place dice in various spots on the board to take actions. It's noted that players can 'take spots that other people want'.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Wouldn't have just been easier to hire taller women?
- This game's been around for a while.
- It's a game I've always wanted to play and I never never never have.
- Very easy to learn. Very easy to learn game.
- It is not a hard game to learn at all.
- it becomes very obvious it's kind of a mean game because of course it's a worker placement in that sense you can take spots that other people want and that can really kind of screw over their plans and that's some of the most fun in the game is when you're doing that.
- It was really a lot of fun.
- But there's always something fun and interesting to do with your dice every round every every turn. You're always doing something fun and interesting here.
- It's a very simple game. It is not a complicated game at all. It's very straightforward and I enjoy dice rolling games. I love to chuck dice and you know, I cut my teeth on Axis and Allies. I love dice rolling and this one is is just a lot of fun.
- I like this game a lot.
- Didn't quite love it.
- Just really fun game.
- If you're looking for a good and easy to learn easy to get into kind of dice throwing game with some meanness to it I think you'll get a kick out of this.
- On the Cody scale I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to give Alien Frontiers Edition X seven. It's a lot of fun.
- Did you hear about that bakery that burned down the other night? I just feel terrible about it. Their business was toast.
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