Game Info
Year
2023
Players
1-6
Age
14+
Playtime
60 min
Complexity
2.5/5
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Description
Space economic game where players manage interstellar corporations claiming planets and trading on a fluctuating market
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Strategic bidding mechanic not seen before.
- Helps with top decking and wild swings in luck.
- Offers a solo puzzle to work out.
- Includes options for variable player powers.
- Allows for longer games with more engine building.
- Team vs. Team game option for more challenge.
Cons
- Components are prototype, rules and artwork are not final.
Thematic elements
- Intergalactic business entrepreneurs building an interstellar donut company.
- space
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction — Players can initiate auctions out of turn by placing resources on cards.
- card drafting — Mentioned as a mechanic, cards are drafted or purchased to score points.
- engine building — Players invest in planets and develop income-generating developments.
- market — The game features a volatile supply and demand market where buying and selling goods affects prices.
- Resource management — Players gain resources like goods and credits, and need to manage them for purchases and exchanges.
- set collection — Players score points by meeting requirements on planet cards, usually by building certain developments.
- Stock market — Mentioned as a mechanic, likely related to the volatile supply and demand market for goods.
- Variable player powers — Asymmetric play power things like the ability to put more development for each planet or swapping a good ones button with other player.
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Quotes (from this video)
- space the final frontier
- yes yes come in Admiral gem Creek we found some suitable planets to expand our Cosmic donut company we should try to build some developments and exchange with the locals to gain resources to further our goals
- very good Martian mellow flavored Donuts yum but vanilla donut
- um you need to find something more creative to be competing donut companies get back to work
- there's nothing like securing a deal with good old Goodwill uh donation
- the player with the most points has successfully conquered the galactic Market not just donut chains and is the best Star Tycoon
- you create your own destiny
- so thanks for watching folks check out star Tycoon project page I'll put the link in the description below
- the components featured in this video are prototype so rules and artwork are not fun
- you would help us buy like the video subscribe and hit the bell and comments below if you want me to make more of these videos I also share my board games Journey on Instagram hopefully I will see you there too thank you for watching bye
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