New ‘SETI: Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence’ Expansion Advances Hunt For Alien Life
SETI: Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence offers tons of strategy in an excellently designed euro game about finding alien life – and it’s getting a new expansion!
Whether you imagine aliens to be benevolent givers of distant technology, horrible monsters from beyond the stars, or just some single-celled bacterium, there’s no argument that finding alien life would be a major discovery. But until that happens, we can imagine what it would be like to be part of SETI: Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
| Quick Guide | |
|---|---|
| Mechanics | Tableau Building, Resource Management |
| Players | 1-4 |
| Playing Time | 40 Minutes |
| Similar Games | Lost Ruins of Arnak, Terraforming Mars |
| Publisher | Czech Games Edition |
SETI: Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence Overview
SETI: Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence is a competitive strategy game with resource management and some tableau building. The goal of each player is to earn the most victory points by the end of the 5th round. Victory points are scored in a vast variety of ways. However, players will be mostly wanting to find traces of life on various planets in order to discover new alien life and learn more about them to score big.
On each players turn, they will perform various actions like launching probes to scout out nearby planets, dropping landers on those planets to do some deeper analysis, scanning deep space around Earth, discovering new technologies, analyze data, and more.
Depending on the technologies each player unlocks, they will have a different edge over their competition for each different action. For example, one technology makes landing a rover cheaper, while another offers a wider range while scanning deep space.
As players are racing to launch probes, drop rovers, and also land on the multitude of moons, they might score points based on who got there first, who did the most research, and so on. But one the alien life is found, the game really begins!
There are several different alien species to be discovered, and players won’t know which they’ve found until it’s discovered. At that point, the aliens special setup and rules are revealed. The alien species will offer new cards for players to collect into their hand as well as new ways to earn points and resources.
The game ends at the end of the 5th round. At which point the player with the most points wins!
SETI: Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence is a game that offers a ton of strategic depth. Plus there are lot of different tactics to reach victory. There are many different mechanics and systems that seamlessly work together in order to offer a great gaming experience. It’s on the heavier side of complexity. But if that’s not an issue for you gaming group, you might love SETI: Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
SETI: Space Agencies
You’ll be able to expand your search for alien life later this year. SETI: Space Agencies adds asymmetric organizations that will change how you scan the stars. These private tech companies and global research networks have unique abilities, strategic advantages, and starting conditions.
The expansion introduces new alien species with their own unique traits, as well as more than 40 project cards that provide variety and strategic options. It also adds a new mechanic, Signal Tokens, that enhances scanning efficiency.
SETI: Space Agencies arrives in Q4 this year.
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