Colonize! (0)

Explore, exploit, expand, colonize! Earth is in peril, if we want to survive we have to leave or it will be the end of the human race. In Colonize! you are the captain of the biggest space ark of your nation. With that giant spaceship you will explore the unknown space, exploit the resources you find, terraform planets and lastly bring your population there! Each of these efforts of colonization will grant you Victory points. But beware, your ship’s reactor produce dangerous radioactive wastes! These wastes take a tremendous space in your cargo's ship. Will you recycle them on Earth or will you simply dump them in deep space? The game end after 8 turns, so you will have to make a lot of choices if you hope a to find a new home for your survivors stranded on a over polluted earth. Quick Gameplay overview: Every player start by placing their ship on Earth’s tile. At the beginning of a turn each player take a Waste token and put it at the start of their energy track on their Spaceship board. In a clockwise order, each player spend 2 energy points to make actions, moving their Waste token as a marker along the energy track. Actions may include : Hauling population or resources into your spaceship Moving through space tiles Exploring the unknown space Using space artifacts Installing a Station on a planet Exploiting the resources of a planet Terraforming a planet and building a Colony When the waste token reach the end of the track, it is moved into the ship’s cargo space. Every player put a new Waste token on their energy track and a new turn begin ! The game ends when there is no more waste token available. —description from the publisher