Space Monster from Invisible City

Invisible City’s free Game of the Month for December 2008 (#106) is Space Monster. The rules, cards, and tokens you need to play are all available as a 240 KB PDF at:

http://www.invisible-city.com/file_download/139/

There’s something alien in Deep Space Outpost 233-B, and it’s hungry. Will you figure out how to neutralize it before it eats you?

Space Monster is a cooperative exploration / suspense / combat game for one to five players. Your goal is to figure out the space monster’s weaknesses and stop it before it eats everyone on the space station – including you! This brings up an important point: The game is actually only _mostly_ cooperative. if things get really dire, you can make a run for the sole one-person escape pod. If you escape and the monster eats everyone else, you win!

Space Monster uses a modular card-based board, special powers for each player, a deck of special powers for the monster, and an unusual deck-based hit point system for the monster. The many permutations of these modules helps ensure good replay value.

Space Monster is a fairly complex game. As such, it is appropriate for ages 14 and up. A 4-player game takes about 60+ minutes to play, although your first game may take significantly longer. You will need to supply dice, pawns, and some assorted tokens in addition to printing out and cutting up the cards and some special tokens.

Enjoy!

Jonathan
Games Advocate
Invisible City Productions
http://www.invisible-city.com/play/