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Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! is a co‑operative survival board game in which you and your team of specialist Colonial Marines will gear up with serious firepower and head into Hadley's Hope to find survivors and answers. But you're not alone. To survive, you'll need to work together, keep your cool, and stay frosty to fight off relentless Xenomorph ambushes and get out of there alive.
Players can play up to six different missions, taking them into different areas from the Hadley’s Hope terraforming facility to the deep, dark recesses of an xenomorph nest. Aliens also offers an exciting campaign mode to play four of the missions linked together, so players will need to fight relentless xenomorph attacks and keep each other alive all the way to the end of the campaign. The remaining two missions are purely about survival, it’s kill or be killed. The players are dropped into the game with nothing more than a pistol. They will need to scavenge weapons and gear while hordes of Xenomorph aliens are trying to get at them. How long can you survive against the odds?
—description from the publisher
- high tension and thematic coherence
- deep card-management strategy
- great for fans of tense co-ops
- requires careful setup and pacing
- can be brutal for new players
- co-op survival against xenomorph swarm
- Hadley’s Hope
- gritty, battle-for-survival
- XCOM: The Board Game
- Pandemic
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative Game — players work together to survive waves of threats
- cooperative play — players work together to survive waves of threats
- endurance deck management — draw-and-exhaust card system to obtain weapons and gear
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- one of the cutest games i've ever seen
- it's a great time for a movie nerd to cross those streams and get into board games
- the thing infection outpost 31 or everything epic's awesome big trouble in little china aren't on here
- the back in time is also one of the hardest games i've ever played
- this is a license to print money but a hell of a game
- it's not just the art style which is super evocative and cool
References (from this video)
- Faithful film-inspired design and art, including use of actual movie footage on components
- Rich, tactile components (miniatures, dials, motion tracker cards)
- Flexible play: campaign or standalone missions with depth from commander/grunt mechanic
- Potentially language-heavy content on endurance and event cards
- Miniatures require assembly; painting is optional but adds time
- Rule complexity and setup can be daunting for casual players
- cooperation under threat, survival, tactical combat against xenomorph threats
- Aliens universe; aboard a spaceborne colonial marine operation
- cinematic, movie-faithful
- Leading Edge Games Aliens (80s)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Campaign and standalone scenarios — Three-part campaign with branching options and standalone bug-hunt missions.
- Card-driven events and endurance deck — Endurance and event cards drive on-turn actions, hazards, and timing.
- Cooperative Game — Players work together to accomplish mission objectives against the alien threat.
- cooperative gameplay — Players work together to accomplish mission objectives against the alien threat.
- Events — Endurance and event cards drive on-turn actions, hazards, and timing.
- mini-games — Miniatures require assembly; some players may choose to paint for aesthetics.
- Miniatures with assembly — Miniatures require assembly; some players may choose to paint for aesthetics.
- Modular board — Multiple boards assembled into a map; aliens spawn via motion-tracker cards and blips.
- Modular map and spawn system — Multiple boards assembled into a map; aliens spawn via motion-tracker cards and blips.
- Per-figure command system (commander vs grunt) — Characters can be played as command-focused leaders or as grunts with differing powers.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- this is a cooperative survival game
- another glorious day in the core
- i'm really excited for this
- i'm excited to get this to the table
- this is going to be awesome
- the rulebook has pictures from the movie and diagrams