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Game Info
Year
2022
Players
1-4
Age
14+
Playtime
75 min
Complexity
2.1/5
Collection
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Description
You are a spacer; a freelance space traveler in a brand new solar system. You have a ship, a handful of spacebucks, and a wealth of opportunities. How will you become famous?
Spacers is a space adventure game where the goal is to become the most famous traveler in the solar system. You are free to earn fame in a variety of different ways, allowing you to live out the space adventure fantasy that you want. Engage in pick-up and deliver tasks, dice-based combat missions, and even choose-you-own-adventure style encounters!
Trading! Exploring! Smuggling! Pirating!
Evolving supply and demand system
Encounters with varied outcomes
Randomized setup
Virtually limitless ways to play
—description from the designer
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Pros
- Does a lot with so little
- Amazing encounters with Choose Your Own Adventure elements
- Good missions and NPC rules
- Better solo game than Zia
- Fits the 'blue collar space adventure' theme
Cons
- Only available on GameCrafter, making it expensive
- GameCrafter boxes are low quality and fall apart
Thematic elements
- Blue-collar space adventure where players do jobs like mining and pick-up and deliver, working their way through ranks of an outlaw faction.
- Space.
- Features Choose Your Own Adventure elements where you read a story and choose what to do.
Comparison games
- Zia: Legends of a Drift
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Choose Your Own Adventure — Uses elements where players read a story and make choices.
- Faction Progression — Players work their way through the ranks of an outlaw faction.
- missions — Includes good missions and NPC rules, with solo missions specifically noted as better than in 'Zia'.
- Pick-Up and Deliver — A core activity in the 'blue collar space adventure' theme.
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- and so in today's video we will be discussing the year of 2024 and we will be doing the 10 best games that I played in 2024
- everything about forgotten uh depths is novel The exploration is novel the combat the story the way the expansions work it's one of the most novel games that I'm aware of and all of that novelty works together to create a super interesting and engaging game
- this is basically uh The Legend of Zelda the RPG
- just a wonderful wonderful beautiful production with some really twisted kind of highdea pixel art
- if you are looking for you know if you've played Ford against Darkness you've played D100 dungeon and you want something that's just a little bit more in depth a little bit more involved in either of those two games you might want to check out Karalis
- And that leaves us just with number one my favorite game of the year and I'm surprised guys but that is dragons down from Scott Demers and man what a fantastic game.
- The kinds of games that I appreciate more now are these kind of sandbox games where the story is created through the actions of the players on the table.
- Everything is kind of disjointed however the theme is so tightly woven into the mechanisms of the game with the art and the flavor text and just how the game is played that it effortlessly creates interesting uh stories and narrative as you are playing the game and it's very memorable.
- The game is very hard to learn the rule book isn't very good but the designer has a great uh explainer video on his twitch Channel and I believe that has also been linked to YouTube and that's how I learned the game and that's how I think once you learn the game it plays very very well it's very fast.
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