![]() The first being the cards in your “tableau” and the second being victory points you earn by trading goods. There are two methods for acquiring these victory points. The metric by which galaxy conquerment is measured is the prestigious Victory Point, and whoever acquires more of these wins. The deal of this game is that you are racing against your opponents to be the first to conquer the galaxy. So What’s this Game’s Deal, Huh?Ī fair question. But just so you Race for the Galaxy veterans know, if I gloss over your favorite mechanic introduced in a later expansion, that’s why. ![]() They’re not important to understand why this game is awesome. If you don’t know what any of those mean, that’s fine. We’ll come back strategies later, but just know that the screenshots you see are for the app version of the game, but they are functionally identical to the physical game.Īdditionally, there are quite a few expansions to the game, but for the purposes of this article I will only be considering the base game plus The Gathering Storm (the first expansion) without using the “Goals” mechanic. The app even comes equipped with a ruthlessly smart AI built on a neural network and quite literally taught itself winning emergent strategies. It’s worth mentioning right off the bat that not only is this a great traditional board game, but the app is also a fast, intuitive, fun to play implementation.
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