Cover art for Galactic Cruise

Galactic Cruise

2025 · BGG
Avg rating
8.30
Bayes rating
7.57
Weight
3.98 (Heavy)
Players
1-4
Playtime
2 hr 30 min
Ratings count
7,614

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Description

Hello, and welcome to Galactic Cruise. Here, we offer our guests something special: the comfort of a luxury cruise with the innovation of space travel. As the first company to offer extended-stay space vacations, we are excited to have you working for us! As a supervisor of this company, you’ll be expected to not only build these ships and satisfy our guests, but also to help the company thrive by enhancing our company network, inventing new technologies, and growing our workforce. We are a united company, and you’ll often find that what another supervisor does will make your job easier. Let me be clear, though, this is a competition. Our current CEO will be stepping down in three years, and the supervisor who comes out on top will take his place. On your turn, you will either place a worker to take two actions in the ever-expanding network, launch a ship and send one of your workers to space as a pilot, or recall all your earthbound workers to collect funding bonuses. Actions include acquiring blueprints, constructing ships, attracting guests, and building developments–connections between locations that increase action selection throughout the game. You will also be affecting resource markets that ebb and flow with the actions of all the players. When you launch a ship, one of your workers will accompany it as a pilot, navigating the ship to various destinations and “days in space,” where guests will reward you for all your hard work. Throughout the game, you will also be competing with your fellow supervisors to complete company goals, which will earn you progress cubes throughout the game. Progress cubes are also placed when you launch ships, and when a certain number of cubes are placed onto the company’s progress track, the game ends, and the player with the most Victory Points becomes the new CEO of Galactic Cruise. Do you still think you have what it takes to work for us? You do? Great. Let’s get started. —description from the publisher

Play mode

Solo

How it plays

Action selection / worker placement Card play & hand management Drafting
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Resource & economic management Set collection & pattern building Tile, map & route building

Game type

Board game

What it’s about

Science fiction & space Business, building & transportation

Publishers

CrowD Games Dranda Games HIT Games Kinson Key Games Maldito Games PD-Verlag Pendragon Game Studio Portal Games Super Meeple

Designers

Dennis Northcott Koltin Thompson T.K. King