Exploration: Warzone (2022)

About this game

Exploration: Warzone is a space themed game in which players take control of spaceships with different skills and jump into a space battle. This is a dynamic filler game in which the most important part is that you need to assess what your opponent's next move will be. Should you attack, defend, recover, avoid battle, collect VP or use spaceship skills? That is the question. There are multiple paths to win: destroying opponent spaceships and became last man standing in the warzone, collect two relic cards or get the most victory points. You will be able to acheive the goal by building your deck of hex cards including action cards, war cards and relics. Then you will be able to utilize them in one of 9 possible actions. To expand your hand you will need 4 resources that create microeconomics in the game. Finally, you'll use your spaceship's unique ability to overwhelm your opponent in a simple, but not crude, card-based combat system. —description from the designer

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 3.
• Rules load. At 1.0/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 8 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.