Escaping Earth (2022)

About this game

Escaping Earth is a semi-cooperative building game with bluffing elements suited for 2 to 4 players. Each player builds a functional civilization and/or confederation rocket to fly into space. The game is won by the player who has the most surviving astronauts in their ship. A civilization ship must be able to fly. Otherwise, there is no winner of the game. During building the civilization ship you can follow different strategies: Build a civilization ship together to place astronauts there. Sabotage building the civilization ship to push your own confederation ship. Push building of both ships. —description from the publisher

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 2.0/5 this is a mid-weight game — expect a proper rules explanation before you start.
• Age. The publisher suggests 10 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.