Game title:
Star Realms
Designer: Darwin
Kastle
Manufacturer:
White Wizard Games
Year: 2013
I bought Star Realms
on a visit to Ecclectic Games in
Reading, UK. As you would expect the staff in the shop are keen gamers and very
knowledgeable. After discussing my game collection and mine and Amy’s current
love for Dominion, we looked at some
2-player deck-builders and narrowed it down to Star Realms and Ascension. Give
the different price point of the two games (around £13 and £25 respectively)
and Amy’s love of all things space, I opted for Star Realms. The current
ranking on Board Game Geek didn’t
hurt either, at #54.
Star Realms is a
spaceship combat deck-building game. Each player starts with the same deck of
10 basic cards, which have a total value of 8 Trade and 2 Combat. Trade allows
a player to buy Ships or Bases from the trade row on their turn, whilst Combat
deals damage to an opponent’s Authority or destroys their Bases if this can be
achieved in one hit.