There are four levels to the tech tree, and you are going to want to do them all! There are tons of planets to explore, each with differing amounts of victory points or cool upgrades, and you are going to want to colonize them all! You have tons of spaces on your player board that needs upgrading, and you are going to want to upgrade them all!īut of course, you can’t. This is one of those games where there is so many cool things to do, but you have limited space to do them. I lost pretty badly, getting way to caught up in putting ships out all over the galaxy, forgetting that you need to do something with those ships! The other board in the game is even more interesting to me than the big giant tech tree, a “deep space” board where players move from earth to deep space and around the galaxy exploring and trying to dominate the new planets that come into play.
Bradley and I played a two player game, exploring the mechanics and tech tree, and I was fascinated with this single worker placement game right from the start. Players are rival colonizing empires flying space ships through the galaxy, landing on new planets, and advancing up a tech tree to be the first person to get the best upgrades. Chan’s space worker placement game, Beyond The Sun, published by Rio Grande Games, who graciously sent us a review copy.īeyond The Sun has a big board, and that big playing area is all about the tech tree. One of the games I was interested in was Dennis K. Sure, there may have been only 450 entries this year, instead of the usual 1000+, but there were still a lot of games to investigate.
Hit us up on Twitter or on Facebook and let us know what games you’ve been playing during this crisis and what games you think we should play!īut that’s enough blather, let’s get to the games! Beyond The SunĮssen Spiel faire always means an onslaught of euro games hitting Board Game Geek and the social medias, and 2020 was no exception. This has been a tough time for getting in person multiplayer games in, but luckily, I have a few gamers at home, and some steady friends who will get together online frequently. Hey board gamers, BJ from Board Game Gumbo here back with more tales of gaming down on the bayou.