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by Mischief Maker 02/25/2025, 6:11pm PST |
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It's a solitaire game/puzzle. But the moment I laid eyes on it I had to have it, as it's exactly the kind of game I tried and sadly failed to create on paper as a child. Granted I was 10 years old at the time.
Imagine Galaga mixed with X-Com in a dice-based worker placement game. A giant alien mothership is slowly descending on your underground base and launching endless waves of fighters to soften you up along the way. You need to excavate your partially-collapsed base to uncover stronger rooms, send jets to shoot down vulnerable alien fighters, provide power, craft robots, and ultimately win by advancing up the research track to develop a weapon to successfully neutralize the mothership.
You accomplish this by rolling five worker dice and assigning each to one excavated room in all 5 lanes. The higher the dice number, the stronger the effect. BUT this carries the side effect that placing a worker instantly advances the alien figher in that lane an equal number of steps. Is assigning that 6 to research gonna be worth it if it lets the corresponding enemy fighter reach your base? But all along the sky lanes the fighters advance down there are various symbols with effects good and bad if the fighter lands on that space. Maybe you put off the next big research push if it means navigating 3 close-in fighters to their doom when your jets launch this round!
I've only been playing the base game so far, there's a whole campaign with comic book storyboards and special rules to mix things up (like what's that orange fighter for?) but the game advises you to find your preferred difficulty level before committing to it.
I honestly have no real complaints about this game. The reward/punish nature of dice placement can make shitty rolls into lifesavers when deployed cleverly. Love this game without reservation! |
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