Galactic Cruise: First Take

One of the big lessons COVID taught me: meet people who love board games. A major key to that lesson is to ensure you have friends who both love games and who love buying games.  In a world where 5,000 new titles enter Board Game Geek’s database each year, you won’t have the money to buy them all.

Another big lesson COVID taught me with strategy games: lots of people like to play games with a high rules complexity, but don’t like the idea that they might lose a game by making a bad decision on the first or second turn, maybe even during setup.

Enter Galactic Cruise, the new Eurogame strategy title from first-time publisher Kinson Key Games. I have had the chance to meet and interact with members of the game’s design team (TK King, Dennis Northcutt, and Koltin Thompson) a couple times over the last two years, as the designers have thrown themselves full throttle into the production cycle of the game. The Galactic Cruise crowdfunding campaign raised more than $800,000 and recently began fulfillment to backers.

From the jump, Galactic Cruise openly pays homage to many other heavy Euros of the last 10 years, right down to using quotes from other prominent designers during the campaign. (While Kinson Key handled fulfillment, Allplay is the retail distributor…

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