Alien Artifacts

Benjamín Amorínstar7,5

Good and original card game, fast turns and beautiful design

EvEvanstar2,5

This is a space card game, where you get a player power, then hope the gods of flipluck grant you cards that work with your starting setup, and or give you ability cards that syngergize with other cards you've gotten. The graphic design is nice enough, the flow of play is ok. It's reasonably fast paced, and I can see how people might like it, but I just felt alternating frustration and boredom with it. For example, my starting setup wanted me to get exploration cards. None came up until halfway through the game. I wound up winning anyway because I just kept digging for what I needed, but the experience of getting there wasn't great. I'd try it again maybe but I don't think I'd ask to play it again. :star: Art, Iconography and components functional :nostar: Clever or interesting mechanisms :nostar: Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players :star: Multiple plays stay interesting :nostar: Low or mitigatable luck elements :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: Raw enjoyment

phoenix4031star2,5

Turns are basically counting Numbers and doing one tiny, short action. Only Combat is a little More interesting because you get to draw another Card and eventually get victory Points or alien artifacts. Rest of the game is downtime. Luck can be important to get good synergies and the recources you need. Faction matters for gameplay. Clone faction turned Out to be very boring while Others where fighting and having fun. Rulebook is a catastrophe. Couldn't have played the game without watch it played video. This was the First game so might need another try but I'm not very excited to Play again.