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Galactic Cruise Game Review

Luxury Among the Stars

It has been several years since I first set eyes on Galactic Cruise back at Tantrumcon 2023. It was set up in the demo hallway, and the artwork, along with the big, chunky, colorful pieces, caught my eye. I didn’t have a chance to try it out then, but I kept seeing it pop up at most conventions I attended. If you’ve been out at any of the big tabletop conventions in the last few years, you’ve possibly passed by the game and even registered it in the back of your brain somewhere. I’ve been chomping at the bit to give it a proper spin ever since, so when a gargantuan box arrived courtesy of Kinson Key Games, I couldn’t wait to assemble my playgroup and put it through its paces.

Galactic Cruise is a worker placement and resource management game that unfolds over three distinct “eras.” I think they’re technically supposed to be “years”, but they’re variable and don’t always last the same amount of time (with the third and final era usually ending pretty abruptly), so I’m going with eras. As a supervisor in this luxury cruise line, you’ll have to build ships to satisfy guests’ needs while also marketing to the public to generate interest and invest in new technologies to…

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