Grave Robbers from Outer Space

About this board game

Grave Robbers from Outer Space is a fast-paced card game for 2–6 players, with games lasting about 40 minutes. Released in 2001, it takes a humorous look at B-rated science-fiction movies.

Players create their own bad horror and sci-fi films using cards that represent the essential ingredients of a wonderfully questionable production. Characters, props, locations, creatures, and special effects all come together as each film takes shape.

Creatures are used to attack characters, while props and locations can strengthen those characters against the threats facing them. The result is a lighthearted contest built around dramatic attacks, cinematic chaos, and the wonderfully unreliable logic of B-movie storytelling.

• Create films with character, prop, location, creature, and special-effect cards.
• Use creatures to attack characters in play.
• Strengthen characters with props and locations.
• Compete to have the strongest characters when the credits roll.

The game’s central challenge is deciding how to assemble and support your cast while dealing with the creatures brought into the action. Every card contributes to the evolving movie on the table, turning the game into a playful parody of horror and science-fiction cinema.

When the credits roll, the player whose characters are strongest in play wins. With its fast-paced theme and tongue-in-cheek take on low-budget genre movies, Grave Robbers from Outer Space is part of the B-Movie Series of card games.