Space Base Game Review
Space Base is a game where you build starships to work in one of twelve sectors, potentially forming a colony in that region, in a race to 40 points. On the surface and at first glance the game may come across as bland and predictable. After all, the theme could be replaced with any of a dozen others (e.g., homesteading in the 17th or 18th century North America, island-hopping in pre-colonial Oceania, etc.) and remain exactly as it is; the dice-driven dependency on luck is obvious, and so on. There is a lot here at which a critic could point and declare the game third-tier at best.
And such a critic would be wrong.
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Money (gold), Income (green), and Points (blue).[/caption]
Mission Briefing
Setting up Space Base involves a few steps:
- Each player places their command console (see image above) in front of them. The command console is populated with the 12 starting cards for that player (each going into the numbered sector as shown at the top-right of the card).
- Each player places a color-coded cube on each of the three tracks at the bottom of the command console. Players start with 5 coins (yellow disks), 0 income (green planets), and 0 points (blue starships).
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