You also have a technology board which to spend actions on, allowing you to upgrade your proficiency with various technologies, effectively powering up future actions. Available actions include building spaceships, generating resources, colonizing planets you have landed on, and terraforming planets you have colonized. The planets are spread around the board randomly, adding to the replay value of the game.Įach turn you can perform one of nine actions, optionally up to 2 bonus actions, and then move your ships. The board is divided into three zones, with only the planets in the zone closest to Earth initially visible. Kepler-3042 is played over 16 rounds in which players will compete to explore, colonize, and terraform various planets in the galaxy. It can play with 1-4 players in about 90 minutes. Kepler has a few new innovations, but builds on a resource management and action selection that will be very familiar to fans of Euro games. It uses what I, a non-scientist, assume to be a hard science basis for its framework of establishing technologies and exploring space.
These games have also largely eliminated combat as players work somewhat independently on their colonies. In the last few years alone there have been a number of games that focus on establishing a new world in the outer reaches of the universe. If there is a theme that’s perhaps as overused as the zombie apocalypse, it’s terraforming space.
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