2011Gabriele Mari, Gianluca Santopietro
- Videos
- 53
- Creators
- 46
2 - 6 players90 minMedium weight

2022Giacomo Santopietro, Gianluca Santopietro
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. The Shadow Planet: The Board Game is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 3 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
In strange and remote regions of space, death may not be the worst end… A group of astronauts on a rescue mission lands on a desolate planet to learn the fate of a long-lost scientific vessel. With little over a day to investigate what happened, they discover that the planet itself and the encountered survivors hide horrible secrets that might endanger humanity. The Shadow Planet: The Board Game is a sci-fi game of alien horror, based on a beautifully illustrated, Italian graphic novel by Blasteroid Brothers and designed by Giacomo and Gianluca Santopietro, the authors responsible for Letters from Whitechapel. It perfectly blends the idea of hidden identities with a completely revolutionary approach to the deck-building genre, thus offering you a unique gaming experience and a chance to use a completely different strategy every time to play. Draw your secret goal and use six different characters to achieve it. Deceive your rivals and control the flow of the game through cunning management of different decks. Move around various locations on the planet to gain powerful cards or use special abilities, but remember that they will also benefit your opponents, who can acquire the very same deck you're trying to modify. Play over the table, look for allies, and identify the alien threat before it proves too powerful… unless you're the creature trying to leave the planet! Save humanity… or save yourself. -description from the publisher
The Shadow Planet: The Board Game has 18 videos from 16 creators: 8 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 3 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2021 to September 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "THE SHADOW PLANET - gra planszowa" by ON TABLE Gry Planszowe, which runs 18 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "The Shadow Planet - Preview | Cardboard Rhino" by Cardboard Rhino. 8 creators have reviewed it.
If you like it, try Letters from Whitechapel, Whitehall Mystery, Penny Dreadfuls of Victorian London and Kingsport Festival, also by Gianluca Santopietro.
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2011Gabriele Mari, Gianluca Santopietro
2 - 6 players90 minMedium weight
2017Gabriele Mari, Gianluca Santopietro
2 - 4 players45 - 60 minMedium weight
2023Gabriele Mari, Gianluca Santopietro
1 - 5 players45 - 60 minMedium weight
2014Andrea Chiarvesio, Gianluca Santopietro
3 - 5 players90 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In strange and remote regions of space, death may not be the worst end… A group of astronauts on a rescue mission lands on a desolate planet to learn the fate of a long-lost scientific vessel. With little over a day to investigate what happened, they discover that the planet itself and the encountered survivors hide horrible secrets that might endanger humanity. The Shadow Planet: The Board Game is a sci-fi game of alien horror, based on a beautifully illustrated, Italian graphic novel by Blasteroid Brothers and designed by Giacomo and Gianluca Santopietro, the authors responsible for Letters from Whitechapel. It perfectly blends the idea of hidden identities with a completely revolutionary approach to the deck-building genre, thus offering you a unique gaming experience and a chance to use a completely different strategy every time to play. Draw your secret goal and use six different characters to achieve it. Deceive your rivals and control the flow of the game through cunning management of different decks. Move around various locations on the planet to gain powerful cards or use special abilities, but remember that they will also benefit your opponents, who can acquire the very same deck you're trying to modify. Play over the table, look for allies, and identify the alien threat before it proves too powerful… unless you're the creature trying to leave the planet! Save humanity… or save yourself. -description from the publisher
Designers
Giacomo Santopietro, Gianluca Santopietro
Artists
Alan D'Amico, Demis Savini
Publisher
Galakta
Mechanics