The Search for Planet X Game Review

The Search for Planet X is one of the most thematically outstanding deduction games I’ve played. Taking on the role of astronomers competing to locate the mysterious Planet X, you’ll survey the sky, research, submit theories, conduct peer reviews, and even attend conferences. It really feels like you’re putting in the work as a person of science.

“I am a Scientist – I seek to understand me”

In The Search for Planet X, players perform actions which will give them a piece of information about the objects that may be in particular sectors of space or about the objects in relation to one another. Your place in turn order is cleverly tied to which action you take, with more directly helpful actions (like targeting a single area or surveying a smaller portion of the visible sky) costing you more spaces on the Time Track, which dictates when you take your next turn.

There is only ever one object in each sector and the total number of each object is fixed for every game (for example, there are always exactly 4 comets and 2 gas clouds within the whole system) as are some rules that the objects adhere to (every asteroid is always adjacent to at least one other asteroid)…

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