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Your civilization has reached the stars, and your population is hungry for discovery. Explore, colonize, research — but be sure to build up your strength to be ready for the dangers that await!
One Deck Galaxy is a co-op space civilization-building game using only cards, dice, and tokens. Each card in the deck represents both a location in space your civilization has scouted, but also the benefits it could reap by colonizing or studying it. These benefits increase your ability to roll dice and manipulate them, and help your civilization grow stronger. When the deck runs out, the era advances and your foes become more dangerous. If you’re not ready, they may overwhelm you and send your empire into decline before it can become truly great!
Ages | 14+ |
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Players | Solo, 2 Players |
Play Time | 30m – 60m |
Designer | Chris Cieslik |
Mechanics | Cooperative Game, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Melding and Splaying, Move Through Deck |
Theme | Card Game, Dice, Space Exploration |
Publisher | Asmadi Games |
jjjim007
Tough puzzle game in a space theme. I can see a lot of expansions, like they did for One Deck Dungeon.
burgessshawn1
Fun game! It's a much bigger and thinkier game than the low price and small package would lead you to believe, so that's bonus marks for me. The rules could be explained better, but after my first game I was fine. I wish they hadn't decided to use "silly" names and artwork for most of the alien races, that's a bit lame. One other complaint, I've played three times, winning the last two. In both my wins I could tell about halfway through that I was going to win, but then it took another 30 minutes to actually win, which removed some tension in the latter part. Both those adversaries (Hungry Nebula and Neeble-Woobers) were built that they started strong and got weaker later in the game, which contributed to this feeling. I hope the other adversaries keep the tension up (admittedly these are the two easiest ones). But again, it's a fun game with a surprising amount of depth and decisions space for the package size and cost. Great for traveling too.
apoQ
If this game had clearer and more organized rulebook, and better and clearer videos by the developer/publisher it would be far more enjoyable. I rate it high because of its potential and enjoyability after the giant grind of trying to understand the rules clearly. There are not a lot of videos on it on Youtube nor on any other place and this has been released for a long time now. The dev said he is going to upload more produced videos on it but that simply has not happened and the only video there is, is very confusing with the dev cheating and skipping steps ahead, not explaining in a simple manner the step-by-step process. The game is very fun once you get to grips with it but I find that it's one of the cases where the 30-60min sessions is just a lie. This one has been 90mins+ for me so I would recommend you block out at least 2h of your day for your first couple of solo playthroughs.