Survive with the Last Starfleet by Wicked Grin Games
June 21, 2014 by deltagamegirl22
It's the year 4010, when the unthinkable happens. In a catastrophic event, the planet Earth explodes, sending the survivors out into the galaxy to band together and try to establish a colony on another planet. What to do? Where to go? As we all know, there are safety in numbers, so we must work as team to combine resources and try to safely land people on another planet to ensure the survival of humanity.
This is Last Starfleet, by Wicked Grin Games, which is out on Kickstarter now and looks like a ton of fun! Last Starfleet is a cooperative adventure card game to be played with 2-6 players, and what I love about this game is the ease of play. The rules flow nicely and the mechanics of the cards are very straightforward. It offers plenty of variety by players getting to choose which ship to play as well as which planet they are trying to inhabit/play against. The planet is your "enemy" in this game, causing trouble for your mission through the elements or the native life forms. The creators point out that a player of any level can play and enjoy this game. This is because the mechanics are clear enough for a "newbie" to hop in be a helpful addition to a team, while a more advanced gamer can find challenge in exploring the combinations of different ships in normal game play or branching into the alternate rule set, "Deus Ex Machina". I love that the rule sets are separated, because it keeps the game approachable and allows for growth.
Have you ever wondered how long it would take to establish a successful colony on another planet? The answer is 60-90 minutes. Not too shabby, considering your home planet is now an asteroid belt.
Will you join the Last Starfleet to ensure the survival of humanity?
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First they need to fix their pledges or redo the whole campaign. As it stands no one can actually pledge because all of them except for one are sold out, and the one pledge level can’t yield anything of value.
TBH wasn’t exactly blown away by the gameplay video but they only played a turn so it is hard to get a feel for the tension that may ramp up as the game progresses.
Like the theme but will sail on looking for a different planetary system to colonise 😉
I’m the designer and I 100% agree with you, wild! Swing and a miss, but I learned a lot and have relaunched the project. You can check it out here http://kck.st/1wlxg1p
Also there’s a free PnP of the updated core version – http://www.wargamevault.com/product/142862/Last-Starfleet-Print–Play