Space Mining Reviews

No. Dont do it.

Full disclosure, I'm recommending this more because I think it's interesting than because I think it's good. Basically, you have 2-5 players, each of which is a color. Each color has its own deck theme (blue floods the board, green grows stuff in the ground, etc). The goal is to chain gems of your color together, bump them up against gems of an enemy color and infest them like some sort of zombie plague, until you eventually infest their core and destroy them. Hopefully you destroy everyone before someone gets stronger than you and destroys you. I don't really understand why in particular the dev decided that space rocks fit this theme at all but, que sera sera. The main issue is that you don't really start the game with anything unlocked, so you have to grind vs AI to unlock cards if you want to make your own deck, else the game is just going to give you random cards for your deck. The game with just random cards is not very good. I lost one game just from drawing the same card 10 times in a row. Progression based unlocks are ok when the game is at least interesting early but this game definitely isn't. Also just from what I saw of the cards, I'm not terribly convinced even if I could make a deck the game would feel consistent or balanced at all, although it's a card game played on a randomly generated board so it probably isn't meant to be. I think the fun I did get out of it is just the fact that it's a very unique idea and its a very open problem space to reason about (5 different colors, lots of different board sizes, 4 different possible player counts). It's a very unique game and I enjoy unique things just because they're unique, so I'm recommending it on that basis. I think as a fully fleshed out game, it leaves a lot to be desired.