The prophecy has been fulfilled. The Earth will soon become uninhabitable. The only chance is to build a space station and find our new home, the New Earth. The HELIX project is designed to allow players to build their own space station, each controlling a company. Whoever manages their resources best can build a bigger and more efficient space station. But to win, you have to be able to get the resources, and it's important to make efforts in planetary exploration.
Each turn, you roll dice as many times as you want to get resources to build your own space station. With a push your luck mechanism, if you roll too much, you fail. But if you don't take risks, you progress more slowly... Then activate the space station moduls you've already built. Activating these can create countless combinations and chain reactions, giving you access to new resources and opportunities on your own board. Whoever has the most victory points at the end of the game wins!
—description from the publisher