Game Info
Year
2026
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
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Description
STEM board game where players physically build real electronic circuits as part of gameplay racing to repair spacecraft
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Video 06HMtW1NNoE
Rules Teach at 0:20 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Easily learned in 5 minutes.
- Brings together learning and engineering through gameplay.
- Engaging with complex circuits and gadgets.
- Offers variants for different playstyles and skill levels.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- repairing a spacecraft by collecting resources and building electronic circuits
- spacecraft en route to fix a failing reactor
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- hand management — Players manage resource cards in their hand to build circuits.
- Modular board — The circuit boards are removable and set up for each game.
- Press Your Luck — When building a circuit, players have a time limit (default 2 minutes), and can fail if they don't wire it correctly, leading to malfunctions.
- resource collection — Players collect resource cards, which represent parts of circuits they will be building.
- set collection — Players collect repair tokens of a certain type, which can grant a specific resource card as a bonus (engine building).
- solo mode — A solo mode involves a 15-minute timer to complete circuits and earn repair tokens.
- Variable player powers — The game offers variants like Circuit Specialist mode and a shorter variant where players start with pre-assigned repair tokens.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Now, you'll be repairing your own vehicle by collecting resources and building real electronic circuits to get the reactor to get your ship back online so that you can win the game.
- And the electronic blocks are created by their partner Lab Box, which is designed to teach the science of circuits and electronics.
- Now, by default, you have 2 minutes to build this circuit. However, first-timers can play without the timer, and advanced groups can shorten the time limit if they want.
- So, there's always these cool circuits that you can play with.
- Now, I remember as a kid going to the local RadioShack store and getting the 101 electronic kits and building circuits. So, that this game brings me back to those days, but it's even better because it actually has a game you're playing around it.
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Video 64ca6IDwECQ
Review at 1:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- educational
- family-friendly
- unique gameplay
- puzzle variety with easy/medium/difficult levels
- event cards introduce special abilities
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- build circuit — Use the cards you already have to build a circuit
- Draw cards — On your turn you can either draw some more cards
- event cards — Succeed puzzles to gain event cards that grant special abilities
- Malfunction — Failing a puzzle causes a malfunction
- Puzzle solving — Solve easy/medium/difficult wire configuration puzzles
- race to repair — It's a race to repair your spaceship first
- reward system — Completing cards yields pieces to repair your spaceship
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Quotes (from this video)
- It actually lights up. This is a board game called Reactor Rescue.
- This is an amazing educational game, a great family game.
- Reactor Rescue is very unique and it's on Kickstarter now.
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