2025David Gordon (I), Michael O'Connell (II)
- Videos
- 138
- Creators
- 100
1 - 5 players45 - 60 minMedium weight

2025David Gordon (I), TAM
Mainly reviews. Crafting the Cosmos is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 12 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 5 recorded sessions, and 1 other video.
From BoardGameGeek
In Crafting the Cosmos, you are interstellar architects, competing to build the galaxy – one star at a time. Manipulate the laws of the universe to your advantage, shifting gravity or the flow of time to activate useful power cards, and even spawn advanced life that can earn you extra victory points at the end of the game. Use your resources wisely as you craft your cosmic creation. Each round consists of each player taking a turn, which then is followed by shared end phase. A player's turn consists of two phases: energy and craft. Players takes their turns moving energy on the main board and gaining resources. They then spend their resources to craft their galaxy. During the energy phase, you move energy tokens around the controls on the main board to gain resources for crafting your cosmos. Then during the collect resources phase, you gain the resources from the one active control space with your energy token, then from all four of the passive control spaces. Once a player has collected all of their resources, they spend them during the craft phase in any order to craft their galaxy. You may take placement actions, scoring actions, energy card actions, and slider actions in any order. You may place the four standard kinds of stars: hydrogen (H), helium (He), carbon (C), and oxygen (O), place proto life, or even nebulae. Players can spend energy cards to gain power cards to help them craft their cosmos more effectively, and they compete to complete universal goals. -description from the publisher
Learn to play
Crafting the Cosmos has 23 videos from 19 creators: 12 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 5 playthroughs and 1 other video. They date from 2024 to August 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Crafting the Cosmos - Official How to Play Board Game Tutorial. Complete, Clear and Concise" by Meeple University, which runs 20 min. For a quicker teach, "Crafting the Cosmos - In Focus" by BoardGameGeek runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Crafting the Cosmos Review: You're a Shining Star" by The Dice Tower. 11 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Crafting the Cosmos - GameNight! Se12 Ep52 - How to Play & Playthrough" by BoardGameGeek, one of 5 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Finspan, Monkey Palace, Floristry and Making Monsters, also by David Gordon.
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2025David Gordon (I), Michael O'Connell (II)
1 - 5 players45 - 60 minMedium weight
2024David Gordon (I), TAM
2 - 4 players45 minMedium weight
2026Jonathan Gilmour-Long, David Gordon (I)
2 - 4 players45 - 60 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In Crafting the Cosmos, you are interstellar architects, competing to build the galaxy – one star at a time. Manipulate the laws of the universe to your advantage, shifting gravity or the flow of time to activate useful power cards, and even spawn advanced life that can earn you extra victory points at the end of the game. Use your resources wisely as you craft your cosmic creation. Each round consists of each player taking a turn, which then is followed by shared end phase. A player's turn consists of two phases: energy and craft. Players takes their turns moving energy on the main board and gaining resources. They then spend their resources to craft their galaxy. During the energy phase, you move energy tokens around the controls on the main board to gain resources for crafting your cosmos. Then during the collect resources phase, you gain the resources from the one active control space with your energy token, then from all four of the passive control spaces. Once a player has collected all of their resources, they spend them during the craft phase in any order to craft their galaxy. You may take placement actions, scoring actions, energy card actions, and slider actions in any order. You may place the four standard kinds of stars: hydrogen (H), helium (He), carbon (C), and oxygen (O), place proto life, or even nebulae. Players can spend energy cards to gain power cards to help them craft their cosmos more effectively, and they compete to complete universal goals. -description from the publisher
Designers
David Gordon (I), TAM
Artists
Greg May (II), Dann May
Publisher
Office Dog
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Mechanics