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ExoShip

ExoShip

2024·Kevin Sylves

1 players
15 - 30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

From BoardGameGeek

La Oruga is a massive starship, capable of bringing a crew of thousands on a centuries-long journey to found a base on the distant exoplanet Mariposa. However, the ship's Directorate has become increasingly authoritarian and resistant to change, even as it becomes clear that Mariposa is already inhabited with intelligent life. You are the head of Rift, a resistance movement trying to covertly sway others to your side, seize control of the ship, and change its destination. ExoShip is a solo spatial puzzle game. Cards represent the ship's founders, which can be manipulated by your actions, randomized events, or by the passage of time itself. A card representing the ship moves decades along a timeline each turn as it travels across the table from Earth to its destination planet. As the ship moves each turn, the eldest founders die while a new generation of founders are added. At the start, all founders are loyal to the Directorate but their cards can be flipped to join the Rift resistance movement, unlocking powerful unique abilities and earning points toward winning the game. Members of Rift must avoid the watchful eyes of Directorate founders or risk being "disappeared" during the suspicion phase! Actions include: sway an adjacent Directorate founder to your side, use a Rift founder's ability to manipulate the grid, or replace a Rift founder with the top founder card from the stack. Once per game you must take an action to change the ship's destination to the uninhabited exoplanet Axios, but only if the ship's captain belongs to Rift! Win by swaying enough points worth of founders to the Rift movement and flipping the destination planet card before the ship arrives. Do you and the Rift founders have the conviction to guide La Oruga to Axios and establish an ExoBase? -description from artist

ExoShip

Watch first

Review

ExoShip | Solo Board Game PaRTy!!! (Playthrough and Review/ Tutorial, yup!)13:11

ExoShip | Solo Board Game PaRTy!!! (Playthrough and Review/ Tutorial, yup!)

Tabletop Tokki

Tabletop Tokki

Watch it played

Playthrough + Review | ExoShip29:59

Playthrough + Review | ExoShip

Sir Thecos

Sir Thecos

Which ExoShip video should I watch?

ExoShip has 4 videos from 4 creators: 2 reviews, 1 playthrough and 1 other video. They date from 2023 to January 2024.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "ExoShip 🌃 | Solo Board Game PaRTy!!! (Playthrough and Review/ Tutorial, yup!) 🎉" by Tabletop Tokki. To see it played, watch "Playthrough + Review | ExoShip" by Sir Thecos.

If you like it, try Otter, Fields of Fire, Snowcrest or Nature, which share several of its mechanics.

All videos

ExoShip | Solo Board Game PaRTy!!! (Playthrough and Review/ Tutorial, yup!)Review13:11

ExoShip | Solo Board Game PaRTy!!! (Playthrough and Review/ Tutorial, yup!)

Tabletop Tokki

Tabletop Tokki

Playthrough + Review | ExoShipPlaythrough29:59

Playthrough + Review | ExoShip

Sir Thecos

Sir Thecos

Purple Moose Plays...ExoShip - preview copyReview45:32

Purple Moose Plays...ExoShip - preview copy

Purple Moose Plays

Purple Moose Plays

ExoShip Trailer1:49

ExoShip Trailer

Mike Berg

Mike Berg

Creators who cover this

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Mike Berg
Mike Berg
1 video of this game
Purple Moose Plays
Purple Moose Plays
1 video of this game
Sir Thecos
Sir Thecos
1 video of this game
Tabletop Tokki
Tabletop Tokki
1 video of this game

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About ExoShip

From BoardGameGeek:

La Oruga is a massive starship, capable of bringing a crew of thousands on a centuries-long journey to found a base on the distant exoplanet Mariposa. However, the ship's Directorate has become increasingly authoritarian and resistant to change, even as it becomes clear that Mariposa is already inhabited with intelligent life. You are the head of Rift, a resistance movement trying to covertly sway others to your side, seize control of the ship, and change its destination. ExoShip is a solo spatial puzzle game. Cards represent the ship's founders, which can be manipulated by your actions, randomized events, or by the passage of time itself. A card representing the ship moves decades along a timeline each turn as it travels across the table from Earth to its destination planet. As the ship moves each turn, the eldest founders die while a new generation of founders are added. At the start, all founders are loyal to the Directorate but their cards can be flipped to join the Rift resistance movement, unlocking powerful unique abilities and earning points toward winning the game. Members of Rift must avoid the watchful eyes of Directorate founders or risk being "disappeared" during the suspicion phase! Actions include: sway an adjacent Directorate founder to your side, use a Rift founder's ability to manipulate the grid, or replace a Rift founder with the top founder card from the stack. Once per game you must take an action to change the ship's destination to the uninhabited exoplanet Axios, but only if the ship's captain belongs to Rift! Win by swaying enough points worth of founders to the Rift movement and flipping the destination planet card before the ship arrives. Do you and the Rift founders have the conviction to guide La Oruga to Axios and establish an ExoBase? -description from artist

Designer

Kevin Sylves

Artist

Mike Berg

Publisher

We Heart Games

Categories

Card GamePuzzleScience Fiction

Mechanics

Solo / Solitaire GameModular Board & Variable Setup
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