Lab Wars

In this science-themed card game, players develop laboratories, recruit research teams, and sabotage competing scientists. Each round, players secretly select a character using a rock-paper-scissors mechanism, triggering resource bonuses and character-specific effects when targets are matched. Players purchase lab items, combine them into research-generating sets, and play action cards with varied effects. Research points are spent on impact cards, which provide the impact points needed to win. The game ends when two of the three impact card supplies are depleted, and bonuses reward remaining research points, lab items, and certain impact cards.

Players: 2–4 best 3
Playing time: 30–60 min
Age: 12+
Complexity: 2 / 5