
2024Bryan Kline
Mainly reviews. Stellar Drift: Pull & Write is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 11 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Stellar Drift: Pull & Write is a roll-and-write game about repairing your broken spaceship. Each player is the captain of their own heavily damaged ship, drifting in orbit around an unstable white dwarf star. The captains must quickly conduct emergency repairs to their ships using whatever materials they can find, before the star decides to go nova and wipe them all out. Stellar Drift is played over seven rounds. At the beginning of each round, the players draw random colored cubes out of a shared central bag. These cubes represent the resources the players have that round. Each player may then spend those cubes to move around their ship, conducting repairs as they go. Each player has their own separate game sheet with a spaceship-shaped grid on it, and squares in this grid are marked off as the players move through them. Play is simultaneous, players are all pulling cubes from the bag and marking off their sheets at the same time. Each ship grid square costs some cubes of specific color(s), and gives the player rewards in the form of movement on their 'ship status' tracks, which gives various benefits such as more resources, special abilities, and victory points. At the end of the seven rounds, players tally up the victory points they scored for successfully restoring the various ship systems. Most points wins! A game of Stellar Drift typically takes between 30 to 45 minutes, regardless of the number of players. -description from the publiser
Stellar Drift: Pull & Write has 24 videos from 14 creators: 11 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 3 playthroughs, 4 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2023 to October 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "All the Games with Steph: Stellar Drift" by Steph Hodge, which runs 1 h. For a quicker teach, "Stellar Drift Preview - Kickstarting The New Year With This Stellar Game! #kickstarter" by The Nerdyweds runs 7 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "10 Board Games You Should Have Played By Now" by Gaming Caravan. 9 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Rahdo Previews►►► Stellar Drift: Pull & Write" by Rahdo Runs Through, one of 3 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Manaforge, also by Bryan Kline, or Space Empires 4X, Recall and The Anarchy, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2024.
8 of 14
2011Jim Krohn
1 - 4 players60 - 240 minHeavy weight
2025Helge Meissner, Kristian Amundsen Østby, Kjetil Svendsen, Anna Wermlund
1 - 4 players90 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Stellar Drift: Pull & Write is a roll-and-write game about repairing your broken spaceship. Each player is the captain of their own heavily damaged ship, drifting in orbit around an unstable white dwarf star. The captains must quickly conduct emergency repairs to their ships using whatever materials they can find, before the star decides to go nova and wipe them all out. Stellar Drift is played over seven rounds. At the beginning of each round, the players draw random colored cubes out of a shared central bag. These cubes represent the resources the players have that round. Each player may then spend those cubes to move around their ship, conducting repairs as they go. Each player has their own separate game sheet with a spaceship-shaped grid on it, and squares in this grid are marked off as the players move through them. Play is simultaneous, players are all pulling cubes from the bag and marking off their sheets at the same time. Each ship grid square costs some cubes of specific color(s), and gives the player rewards in the form of movement on their 'ship status' tracks, which gives various benefits such as more resources, special abilities, and victory points. At the end of the seven rounds, players tally up the victory points they scored for successfully restoring the various ship systems. Most points wins! A game of Stellar Drift typically takes between 30 to 45 minutes, regardless of the number of players. -description from the publiser
Designer
Bryan Kline
Artist
Nilanjan Malakar
Publisher
Mystic Tiger Games, LLC
Categories
Mechanics