Dark Stars
(1980)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 12 and up. You can play with 2 to 4 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Dice Rolling, Events, Grid Movement, Hexagon Grid, Movement Points, Paper-and-Pencil, Ratio / Combat Results Table, Simulation und Simultaneous Action Selection...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 360 |
| Minimum age: | 12 |
| Number of players: | 2 - 4 |
| Publisher: | Simulations Canada |
| Designers: | Stephen Newberg |
| Artists: | Rodger B. MacGowan |
| Mechanics: | Dice Rolling, Events, Grid Movement, Hexagon Grid, Movement Points, Paper-and-Pencil, Ratio / Combat Results Table, Simulation, Simultaneous Action Selection |
Dark Stars is played on both the Interstellar and the Interplanetary level so as to place the full range of space exploration and conflict possibilities in the hands of the players. At the time we did Dark Stars, I played a lot of board games, but almost none of them SF because they were so bad. They routinely ignored pretty much everything having to do with astronomy, physics, and mathematics, and since my background is technical I found that hard to swallow. The main problem with just about every science fiction game I ran across was too much fiction and not enough science. We put a lot of hard science into the system's design, simplified as much as possible to be playable, to try to put some of the science back in, rather than having it just fiction.
—description from the designer
Alternative names:
Dark Stars
Last Updated: 2025-08-12 17:17:07 UTC
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