The tricky part is explaining how faction abilities work which can be tough to explain. It’s a standard deck building game really so teaching is easy. Again, I’ll address the sci-fi thing in the summary. The box is really nice, all White Wizard boxes of this type seem really sturdy. Components & ArtworkĬards, cards and more cards. It explains everything well in a decent order. You need to sort out players starting hands, scoring cards, the main deck and then boss cards. Be sure to separate the different cards out. Setup CAN be fiddly if you don’t put the game away correctly. I’m not a sci-fi guy, but more on that in the summary below. The theme is space and each of the factions has a back story which is cool. Usually Player, then Outpost, then Base or something like that. They also have rules laid out for the order of attack. Instead of drawing additional cards they gain Attack, instead of Trade they gain Attack etc The Automatons, being the ‘starter bot’ basically turn everything into Attack power. The actions the bot will take will depend on the rules of that particular opponent. As the game progresses, the bot will draw more and more cards on a turn. On the bots turn, you’ll draw a card from the deck and resolve it. Some bases are Outposts which your opponent MUST attack before attacking you directly. They have a life total and if destroyed they’re put in the discard pile.
There are also two types of cards that stay in play, horizontally, and give you ongoing abilities.īases stay in play, give you abilities and can be attacked by your opponent. Here you need to play 2 cards from a faction to activate their ability. New to Frontiers are double ally abilities. Each of the 4 Factions has their own speciality. Cards with a Trade symbol give you that much ‘money’ and Combat gives you, well, combat.Įach card belongs to a certain Faction and may have a bonus ability if you play an Ally of that faction that turn. Each comes with a page in the rulebook and a card with all their rules on and how they operate.Ī human player will draw cards and can play any of them in any order. Playing cards and things are almost the same in both games, but the solo game only changes in how you handle the opponent. The game can also be played solo or co-op against an automated opponent among other options.īut, I played solo so I’m going to look at that. My untidy Trade Row from which cards can be purchased
They do this by attacking each other with ships they buy from the Trade Row. This game can be played competitively with players trying to bring each other Authority (like Life Points) down to 0. When you reduce your opponent’s score (called Authority) to zero, you win! Star Realms: Frontiers Game Play Star Realms is a fast-paced game of space battles where you use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade, or to generate Combat to attack your opponent and their Bases.
Star Realms: Frontiers gives you solo, co-op and competitive modes all in one tiny box.
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