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The evil Lord Eradikus has all but conquered the galaxy and is now on a victory lap across the sector in his flagship, Eradikus Prime. He may rule with an iron grip, but his most prized artifacts are about to slip through his cyborg claws. You and your fellow thieves have challenged each other to sneak aboard his ship, hack your way into its command module, and steal from him.
Along the way, you'll recruit allies and snatch up extra loot. But one false step and — Clank! Careless noise draws the attention of Lord Eradikus. Hacking into his command module and stealing his artifacts increases his rage. You'd better hope your friends are louder than you are if you want to make it to an escape pod and get out alive...
Clank! In! Space! is built on the same game system as Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure, with players building a personal deck of cards throughout the course of the game, with the cards allowing them to move through the spaceship, attack things, acquire new cards, and — oh yeah — make noise to attract Lord Eradikus and potentially seal their own doom.
- space theme with witty card references
- tension from push-your-luck mechanics
- varied deck-building options
- can be luck-driven at times
- deck-building with push-your-luck and humor
- space exploration and heist aboard a ship
- lighthearted, fun sci-fi adventure
- Clank! (base game)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- board game with loot and adventure — locations on the ship contribute to loot and scoring
- Deck building — build a deck around artifacts to score points
- deck-building — build a deck around artifacts to score points
- Dungeon Crawl — locations on the ship contribute to loot and scoring
- Push Your Luck — risk-taking to maximize artifact haul before escaping the ship
- push-your-luck — risk-taking to maximize artifact haul before escaping the ship
- Race — race to collect artifacts before others escape
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- it's just a wonderful deck building game with fantastic artwork thematically and replayability
- Core Worlds is one of my favorite deck building games of all time
- the board is gorgeous the territories the way they're laid out it just makes for well-done territory control
- I love the card building concept in these games this one and blood rage as well you buy your monsters and your monsters for the game
- Defenders of the Realm fantastic cooperative game you can't miss with this one plus it's got Larry Elmore art gives me that nostalgic feeling of Dungeons and Dragons in the 80s it's gorgeous
- it's such a cool territory control game and these trilogy uses the cube tower for combat
- combat what I love about the combat is the fact that it feels like medieval warfare because it takes a long time
- it's a very cool war game
- Terraforming Mars fantastic game