The Shadow Planet: The Board Game

About this board game

The Shadow Planet: The Board Game is a sci-fi alien-horror game for 3–5 players, with games lasting around 90 minutes. Based on the Italian graphic novel by Blasteroid Brothers, it combines hidden identities with an unconventional deck-building experience.

A group of astronauts arrives on a desolate planet during a rescue mission. Their objective is to discover what happened to a long-lost scientific vessel, but they have little more than a day to investigate. As the survivors and the planet reveal their secrets, the mission becomes a threat to humanity itself.

Each player draws a secret goal and uses six different characters to pursue it. Deception, negotiation, and careful planning are essential as you move through the planet’s locations, seek allies, and try to determine where the alien danger truly lies.

• Use locations to gain powerful cards or activate special abilities.
• Manage and modify different decks to influence the course of the game.
• Remember that other players may acquire cards from the same deck you are trying to control.
• Identify the alien threat—or work to escape the planet as the creature itself.

The game’s deck-building system gives every session a different strategic character, while the hidden objectives create uncertainty around every alliance. Players must decide whom to trust, how openly to pursue their goals, and when to act before the threat grows beyond control.

With its striking graphic-novel inspiration and tense blend of investigation, shifting loyalties, and deck manipulation, The Shadow Planet: The Board Game offers a distinctive journey into alien horror. Save humanity if you can—or save yourself.