Quick Peaks – Moon Colony Bloodbath, Xylotar: Unhinged, Hellas, Tokkuri Taking, 10 to Mosquito

Moon Colony Bloodbath - Justin Bell

The 2025 release Moon Colony Bloodbath—designed by Donald X. Vaccarino (Dominion) and published by Rio Grande Games—has gotten a lot of pub this year. A friend in my Wednesday group picked up the last copy at a local game store, so we got it to the table to have a look.

Moon Colony Bloodbath is a hard game to describe. It is not, contrary to my initial understanding, an engine destruction game similar to something like Space Station Phoenix (another recent Rio Grande game), because in Moon Colony Bloodbath, players don’t actually start with any buildings or structures that can be stripped for parts. The game does slowly add event cards to a shared deck that wreak havoc on all players…so the game becomes a chance to trigger actions from a player mat while finding ways to stay alive just long enough to watch the structures of other players burn to the ground.

Two turns into my first play, I began looking online to buy a copy. I absolutely loved its initial rhythm. The system is so easy to teach and building cards out of my hand was a breeze but featured interesting decisions. The events were rough, and losing citizens to funny…

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