2019 · Horror

Alien: Perfect Organism

Players take the role of competing Alien Queens building a hive, expanding tunnels, and deploying eggs, facehuggers and xenomorphs to grow their strength. On a turn a player draws from the Aliens deck, plays cards into their player area to develop tunnels and place eggs, discards, or sends their Queen and xenomorphs out to attack other hives or the central Colony. Facehugger and victim cards drive creature conversion: facehuggers hatch from eggs and can become xenomorphs when paired with victims. Two xenomorphs plus an expansion card can be exchanged to accelerate hive growth. Special Colony draws introduce Newt into a player’s control and Furious Ripley cards trigger attacks on whoever holds Newt, with Ripley becoming more dangerous each time she appears. Victory occurs when one Queen remains or a player assembles two expansion cards in their hive.

groupPlayers

2–4 best 4

schedulePlaying time

20–35 min

cakeAge

12+

psychologyComplexity

1.5 / 5