CatStronauts: The Board Game (2025) - A Review by Finn & Evan

About CatStronauts: The Board Game, from BoardGameGeek:

The International Space Station has been a big success! With a green light from President Cat, the CATSUP space agency can now expand the station by adding on all the modules. It's up to the CatStronauts to move these modules to the right spot as each arrives, bringing them online one at a time...before their time runs out! CatStronauts: The Board Game is a co-operative game in which you get to guide fearless commander Major Meowser, brave-but-hungry pilot Waffles, genius technician and inventor Blanket, and quick-thinking science officer Pom Pom on their most important mission yet. You win as a team by completing your core mission, which is to bring all of the space station's new modules online, boot up the system, and launch the re-entry pod before the power level drops to 0. As you move about the space station and assemble the modules as they arrive, you'll encounter side missions and alerts that make your core mission take extra time - but with teamwork and communication, the CatStronauts will overcome these difficulties to make it home in time for their parade. There will be really good snacks, too! Rules variants simplify the game for younger players, make it solo-player friendly, and increase the challenge for advanced gamers. -description form the publisher