Space Potato is a small box worker placement game for 2-4 players. You are stranded in space. Your spaceship was hit by an asteroid, shaped like a massive potato. Now, each of the corporations must mine critically needed resources from the asteroid to make repairs to their shared ship, while simultaneously collecting valuable resources for their companies.
On your turn you will place astronaut workers to take actions, mine the asteroid, or build essential components to repair the ship. the Players will also manage their resources on their player boards and refine resources like Gold and Iridium into ingots to get points. Players will be rewarded with points for mining away chunks of the asteroid, refining materials, and repairing parts of the ship. The player with the most points when the ship is finally repaired wins!
Space Potato is a 60-90 minute playing game in a 4 inch box.
-description from designer
- Cool looking game
- Beautiful meeples
- Nice player reference cards
- Feels like a lot of game in a small box
- Small box games are appealing
- Nice components
- Has unique art styles and different mechanisms
- Main image could be improved with more details about mechanisms, components, player time, and age.
- Main image is bland and underutilizes space, not showcasing components well.
- Rule booklets are present, but gameplay videos would be beneficial.
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- I feel like this hobby has been going way too deep and too far into these massive bloated oversized $300 every other day it feels like on Kickstarter deluxe-ified versions of games.
- And so we're going to be checking out three small box games from a company I've never heard of.
- this is a COOL-LOOKING GAME.
- I like three small box games. If one of them ends up being great, I'm happy.
- Can you do it? Yes. We're going to go Oh, and then this is the most recent one. Not out but still. Can you do it? Yes. Check mark.
- It feels like a lot of game in that box.
- The sheer fact that it's like yeah, we we shipped out this many of them and I'm sure that one of those 5,000 I'm sure that one probably did get some love that year.
- Bottom line is the main image while I still think could be way better because it doesn't spotlight the fact that these boxes have some really nice looking components in it.
- I'm going to go with a B minus overall.