
2025Donald X. Vaccarino
Mainly reviews and playthroughs. Moon Colony Bloodbath is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 42 reviews, 19 how-to-play guides, 28 recorded sessions, 16 unboxings, and 5 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Cities on the moon! This will be humanity's crowning achievement. At last, no longer bound to the Earth - the moon, a stepping stone to the stars. The rockets are loaded with supplies and colonists; the robots are programmed and ready. Everything has been planned down to the tiniest detail, and there is no chance whatsoever of failure. To the moon! Moon Colony Bloodbath is an engine-building, engine-losing tableau game, with a shared deck the players build that makes things happen, many of them bad things that kill people in your moon colony, but some positive, and some that let you build up. More specifically, each turn one card is revealed from the shared deck, which starts with four work cards, two trouble cards, and two twists. For work, each player takes an action of their choice simultaneously: mining for money, farming for food, research for cards, build a new building, or restock boxes on buildings. Twists vary from one game to the next. Trouble adds a new event card to the deck: hunger, paperwork, glitches, accidents, leaks, power failure - whatever can go wrong will go wrong, then whenever the deck is shuffled, you can prepare for all those events once again. Players can add cards to the shared deck, too, whether perks that are only for you or developments that affect all players. The game lasts until one player's moon colony has no people remaining, or until the players reach the bottom of the event deck. At that point, the player with the most survivors wins.
Moon Colony Bloodbath has 110 videos from 89 creators: 42 reviews, 19 how-to-play guides, 28 playthroughs, 16 unboxings and 5 other videos. They date from 2025 to October 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Moon Colony Bloodbath - GameNight! Se12 Ep50 - How to Play & Playthrough" by BoardGameGeek, which runs 1 h 28 min. For a quicker teach, "Ludochrono - Moon Colony Bloodbath" by Ludovox runs 8 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Moon Colony Bloodbath Review: Bloodbath and Beyond" by The Dice Tower. 39 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Bad Robots! | Moon Colony Bloodbath | Solo Playthrough" by Take a Chanse, one of 28 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Dominion, Dominion: Rising Sun, Kingdom Builder and Dominion: Plunder, also by Donald X. Vaccarino.
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2024Donald X. Vaccarino
2 - 4 players30 minMedium weight
2011Donald X. Vaccarino
2 - 4 players45 minMedium weight
2022Donald X. Vaccarino
2 - 4 players30 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Cities on the moon! This will be humanity's crowning achievement. At last, no longer bound to the Earth - the moon, a stepping stone to the stars. The rockets are loaded with supplies and colonists; the robots are programmed and ready. Everything has been planned down to the tiniest detail, and there is no chance whatsoever of failure. To the moon! Moon Colony Bloodbath is an engine-building, engine-losing tableau game, with a shared deck the players build that makes things happen, many of them bad things that kill people in your moon colony, but some positive, and some that let you build up. More specifically, each turn one card is revealed from the shared deck, which starts with four work cards, two trouble cards, and two twists. For work, each player takes an action of their choice simultaneously: mining for money, farming for food, research for cards, build a new building, or restock boxes on buildings. Twists vary from one game to the next. Trouble adds a new event card to the deck: hunger, paperwork, glitches, accidents, leaks, power failure - whatever can go wrong will go wrong, then whenever the deck is shuffled, you can prepare for all those events once again. Players can add cards to the shared deck, too, whether perks that are only for you or developments that affect all players. The game lasts until one player's moon colony has no people remaining, or until the players reach the bottom of the event deck. At that point, the player with the most survivors wins.
Designer
Donald X. Vaccarino
Artist
Franz Vohwinkel
Publisher
Rio Grande Games
Categories
Mechanics