![]() Galaxy Trucker is so much fun because the order of the mission cards is as clear as mud. Or, the player that has the fastest, most gun-heavy contraption in history has no cargo bays…and the first 2 mission cards are Planets, which allow you to slow your journey down and pick up valuable goods that will generally help pay for all of the damage you’ll do to your ship. Just when you think you have enough cannons, a meteor shower arrives thanks to an unlucky dice roll, that shower takes out a column of your ship that didn’t have any guns. The magic of Galaxy Trucker is watching players take their (usually) imperfect spacecraft out into the galaxy in the hopes that they can survive all of the things 8-12 mission cards can throw at them. You’ll only have a few minutes to put everything together in just the right way if you finish but then have parts that don’t legally connect to others, parts of your ship might fall off before you even leave the spaceport.Īnd in Galaxy Trucker, things will only get worse from there. While you are putting a ship together, a sand timer is slowly running down the clock. Sometimes, you’ll need junk pieces to help connect pods to engines to guns, especially in the bigger ships. You’ll need engines for sure, plus cannons, shields, crew pods, battery pods and maybe even specialized alien crew members to make those guns and engines better. That’s because everyone builds their ships from face-down parts in a pile at the center of the table using just one hand, flipping over pieces to see how they will fit on their player board ship outline. Three rounds of Galaxy Trucker can be played by veterans in 30 minutes, easy. If you can make it back to your local spaceport, you’ll receive money for arriving first, selling goods, and having a handsome little spaceship. But the core of the game is quite simple: build a spaceship, then take that spaceship into the galaxy to pick up goods, save abandoned vessels, avoid pirates and other nefarious entities and hope for the best when meteor showers appear in your path. Galaxy Trucker has an easy concept with a lot of small/minor/fiddly rules. Race For the Right to Get Out Into the Galaxy It’s the same game, but with a slick new look, new rulebook (the designer and his rulebooks are legendary for their cynical snark and sense of humor in teaching each game), and better components, all in a package for under $30 MSRP. ![]() But it is a swift experience you could play this in 15-20 minutes, especially if you only do one or two rounds of the build a ship/hit the road cycle for each round.ĬGE acknowledged the legendary status of the original game by re-releasing Galaxy Trucker to modern audiences this fall. ![]() I loved it, but I probably loved it because the AI was forgiving and no one else got to watch my garbage spaceships break apart and get sabotaged by pirates throughout each journey. Galaxy Trucker was first released in 2007 the game is so tough to get to physical tables that my first experience with it was playing the app on an old Android tablet years ago. In the case of Mage Knight and Through the Ages, we just have to agree that a lot of the fun-or “fun” as the case may be-comes from a brutal teach and some brutal gameplay. Everyone knows how hard a game Galaxy Trucker is to put on the table, and it’s been that way for years.ĭesigner Vlaada Chvátil has made, to many, some of the best games of all time: Mage Knight Board Game, Dungeon Petz, Through the Ages, and the Codenames series (such as XXL, Duet, etc.). And I’ll be honest: one of the quotes above is from someone who works for the game’s publisher, CGE ( Adrenaline, Letter Jam, Pulsar 2849). Look, Meeple Mountain has previously acknowledged that Galaxy Trucker IS brutal. “Yeah, it’s a tough one to get to the table.”
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