Galaxy Trucker - chaotic fun board game for all space truckers
Galaxy Trucker - chaotic fun board game for all space truckers
Galaxy Trucker is a fast, fun game where players play simultaneously to build their space ship puzzle and then fly through space avoiding perils along the way.
Can you build a space ship durable enough to weather storms of meteors? Armed enough to defend against pirates? Big enough to carry a large crew and valuable cargo? Fast enough to get there first? Maybe you can and you will have loads of fun too!
Galaxy Trucker is a tile-laying game that plays out over two phases: building and flying. The goal is to have the most credits at the end of the game. You can earn credits by delivering goods, defeating pirates, building an efficient ship, and being the furthest along the track at the end of the flying phase.
Building happens in real time and has players build their personal space ships by grabbing tiles from the middle of the table before the timer runs out. Tiles start out facedown so they won't know what they have until they take it, but they may choose to return it faceup if they don't want it. They must place the tiles they keep in a legal manner in their space ship. Usually this just means lining up the connectors appropriately (single to single, double to double, universal to anything) but also includes proper positioning of guns and engines. Tiles represent a variety of things including guns, engines, storage containers, crew cabins, shields, and batteries. They may also peek at the cards they will encounter in phase 2, but they must sacrifice building time to do this. At any time players may call their ships finished and take an order marker from the center. Once building is completed, and ships have been checked for errors, the flight begins. The flight cards are shuffled and player markers are placed on the flight board according to the order markers taken. Cards are revealed one at a time and players interact with them in order. They may include things such as pirates, abandoned vessels, disease outbreaks, meteor showers, worlds with goods to pick up, player-on-player combat zones, and other various things.
Most of the cards will cause players to move back on the flight track and they must decide if the delay is worth their efforts. When all the cards are encountered players sell any goods they have collected, collect their rewards for finishing in first, second, or third place or having the most intact ship, and then lose some credits for damaged components. Space can be a very dangerous place and it is not uncommon to see your ship break into smaller and smaller pieces or lose some very valuable cargo off the side. If your ship gets damaged too much you can get knocked out of the race, so be careful! 3 rounds of this are done, and in each round players get a bigger board to build a ship that can hold more components.
After the 3rd round the player with the most credits wins!
Galaxy Trucker board game information
Age | 10 up |
Players | 2 - 4 |
Time | 60 min |
Complexity (1-10) | 4.5 |
Galaxy Trucker Board Game Awards
☆2012 Ludoteca Ideale Winner
☆2009 Lys Passioné Finalist
☆2009 Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee
☆2008 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
☆2008 Spiel der Spiele Hit mit Freunden Recommended
☆2008 Hra roku Nominee
☆2008 Golden Geek Best Party Board Game Nominee
☆2008 Golden Geek Best Gamer's Board Game Nominee
☆2008 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
☆2008 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee
Board Game Contents and Specifications
Flight board | 1 |
Two-sided ship boards | 8 |
Adventure cards | 60 |
Cosmic credit pieces | 64 |
Space ship components | 144 |
numbered tiles | 4 |
white figures | 40 |
alien figures in two colors | 8 |
rocket markers in 4 colors | 8 |
battery tokens | 36 |
goods blocks in 4 colors | 56 |
two-sided card with rules | 1 |
dice | 2 |
Timer | 1 |
Weight | 1670g |
Designed by | Vlaada Chvatil |
Box Dimensions | 24 x 33 x 7 cm |
Made by | Czech Games |
⚠ WARNING
This family board game may contain small parts. Not suitable for young children or people who like putting things in their mouth.
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