Tabletop 101

Top 5 Board Games for Sci-fi Lovers

by Serban, Quartermaster @ The Guild Hall

September 4 2020

If you’re anything like us, you want to be taken to a whole new world, because, let’s face it, the one we’re in is pretty lame! Well, worry not! We here, at the Guild Hall, have gathered the best games of the Sci-fi genre, meant to transport you into galaxies far far away and provide troves of fun! Here are our top 5 picks:

Gaia Project

We’re starting our picks with a bang! Gaia Project is a difficult game of space conquest, but not through fighting! In this vast and complex galaxy, you’ll be trying to further your research, gain power and ore and terraform planets to your liking! The game also has unique factions with special abilities and starting points, making the economic battlefield even harder to predict! Not to mention this game is on BoardGameGeek’s top 10 games of all time!

Gaia Project board game

Fallout

Fallout

Pulsar 2849

Pulsar 2849

Star Wars: Imperial Assault

It is no surprise that we’ve included a Star Wars game, is it? How could we forgo the largest and most popular sci-fi universe the world has ever seen? Star Wars: Imperial Assault is a fantastic campaign-based roleplaying game in which each player will select a character and slowly build up their abilities and become stronger. A group of players will combine to form a party of space adventurers, while one player will take over the evil Empire, fighting to take down the others in team-based fights every mission! This game is vast and filled with awesome moments in a legendary universe. What’s there not to like?

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective board game

Scythe

Scythe

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