Space Race: Rally for Resources

Easy game to learn while still being strategy based. The artwork is really cute and engaging. Setting up the board to your liking is a fun variable that makes each play unique, and reveals more strategies to utilize in the future.

I brought it to game night with some friends and played a 4 player game, it was a hit! We ended up completely turning on each other and waging war in a struggle over the resources we needed to win. We eventually realized that focusing on upgrading your ship before mining for resources is critical to surviving in the late game; If your ship isn't upgraded, even if you have the resources to win you'll just get blasted out of the sky by the other players. You can even change up the placement and number of planets, wormholes and asteroids for a different game every time.

I do also want to mention that our 4 player game was around 3 hours long, though I can definitely tell that a game of players all familiar with the rules would take a much shorter amount of time. It is also possible to draw the resources you need quickly, so a smart player could theoretically win extremely early.

• Great art
• Fun concept
• Replayability
• Strategy
• Chaos +/- Widely varied game length (could be a positive or negative really)

• Some mechanics could use a little more explanation in the rulebook
• The box is pretty large for what it contains