Darkrock Ventures

About this board game

Darkrock Ventures is a science-fiction worker placement game for 1–5 players that plays in about 45 minutes. Each player controls a mining company operating in a hostile outer-space environment, where scarce resources, alien raids, and careful planning stand between a crew and the most credits.

At the start of each round, a set of shared Power Dice is rolled. Players take turns placing workers at different space stations and on a mineral-rich asteroid, then use their personal Rig Dice alongside the community dice to resolve mining operations successfully.

Once the workers have been placed, a third and more volatile Power Die is rolled. On each turn, players roll their Rig Dice and resolve all of their workers. As minerals begin to be exported, hostile alien ships start patrolling and attack every round, making successful worker resolution increasingly difficult.

• Place workers across space stations and asteroid resource nodes.
• Manipulate and combine dice to acquire minerals.
• Increase your worker count and gain additional Rig Dice.
• Spend credits and acquire Neutronium bombs for protection from alien attacks.
• Export minerals to earn the credits that determine victory.

The game ends when three of the asteroid’s six resource nodes are emptied of minerals. After the current round is completed, the player with the most credits wins. Darkrock Ventures combines dice manipulation, resource farming, exporting, and worker placement with a strongly thematic science-fiction setting.

Alongside its standard game for up to five players, Darkrock Ventures includes special rules for two players and a Solo/Co-operative variant, offering multiple ways to face the dangers of the asteroid.