Race for the Galaxy
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| Race for the Galaxy | ||
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| Card Game published by Rio Grande Games |
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| No. of Players | 2 - 4 | |
| Session Time | 30 - 60 minutes | |
| Authors | Tom Lehmann | |
Summary
Race For The Galaxy is a card game made by Rio Grande Games, and more precisely Tom Lehmann. The essential premise of the game is to play against your opponents and either colonize or build 12 planets or structures, or to get as much money as you can. The fun comes in combining your cards to stack up bonuses from "6-cost Developments," which function like Wonders in a Civilization game.
The game has been described as "Poker meets Alpha Centauri," "A race to see who can play Patience the fastest" and "Citadels meets Sins of a Solar Empire," and has two expansions coming out soon which deal with the mysterious "Imperial," "Uplift," "DNA" and "Terraforming" classes. Its art style is similar to that of Sins of a Solar Empire or Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, with homages to other sci-fi IPs present in some cards (one development, "Space Marines," has a figure on it who looks a good deal like a Clone Trooper from Star Wars.)
Screwing Over Your Opponents
This is a key part of winning. In the course of a round, each player picks one "action" from Exploring, Developing, Settling, Trading, Consuming or Producing. Since if one player builds or settles his twelfth item in his turn, the game ends, it's vital, come the end of the game, to avoid allowing your opponent to do that. Equally, it's important to stop one player quietly Consuming and then Producing every turn to steal all the money in the universe.
However, the game is mostly played to get you points, not to stop others from winning (this is where it differs from something like Munchkin) and you would do best to try and get similar cards that work well with your 6-cost cards (for example, "Galactic Imperium" adds one point to your score for every point of military force you own. If you started with New Sparta and got that, then you're already 5 points up - so get Military worlds, Military developments and try to get something like New Galactic Order to really boost your points!)
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| Card Games | |
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| Collectible Card Games: |
Call of Cthulhu - Cardfight!! Vanguard - Fire Emblem Cipher Force of Will - Jyhad - Magi-Nation Duel - Magic: The Gathering Netrunner - Pokémon - Star Wars: Destiny CCG (Dead) - Yu-Gi-Oh |
| Other Card Games: |
1000 Blank White Cards - 7th Sea - Apples to Apples - Bang! Cards Against Humanity - Coup - Decktet - Dominion - Dvorak F.A.T.A.L. - Keyforge - Mafia - Mag Blast - Mao - Munchkin Race for the Galaxy - Sentinels of the Multiverse - Tanto Cuore |
| Traditional Card Games: |
Bridge - Cribbage - Mahjong - Solitaire/Patience - Poker - Rummy - Tarot |