Featured Game - Galactic Cruise

Featured games are our way of teaching new games and highlighting something we think our players may enjoy or take note of. We'll explain from scratch how to play the game with a detailed description and demonstrate a few turns, then break into tables to actually play it. Each week it'll be something new, but will run the spectrum of different lengths, complexities, themes, and game mechanics. So if this week's game doesn't interest you, feel free to look again next time around!

Galactic Cruise is a game themed around space tourism. On most turns, you'll take actions on a worker placement board, but unlike most worker placement games, you'll be able to bump other players' workers off the board, giving them a small bonus. Your overall goal is to build, improve, and eventually launch ships. Once launched, ships continue moving automatically along their path, eventually getting passengers to their destinations - the more they're interested in the planets they go to, the easier it is to score points for them.

Galactic Cruise is a game for up to 4 players and should take experienced players 1&1/2 to 2 hours to play. It has a complexity of 3.99 according to BoardGameGeek, making it a heavy game compared to games typically played here.

Read the rules here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63be3bbedccfd7204863dacc/t/678ec178b3866d42073ed4cc/1737408906274/Training+Manual+v25.pdf
Watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C63q_ViNayM

If this is your first time with this group, you should see a link to our Discord group once you've signed up for this event. You may join any time before the event begins to get to know people, but once this event starts, we'll typically join the Lobby voice chat, then move to another voice chat once we've gotten started. Note that I, as the game teacher, will share my screen to show how the game works, but all other interaction will be voice only, no video, so no need to look presentable first. The game itself will be played using Board Game Arena - please create an account on this site beforehand.