City of Six Moons

About this board game

City of Six Moons is a 2024 solitaire board game for one player in which you guide the destiny of an alien civilization—and play a game from an alien civilization.

Inside the box are the components needed to play and a rulebook written entirely in symbols and icons. There is no conventional rules explanation waiting to guide you. Instead, you must decipher the game’s rules yourself.

• A one-player experience focused on guiding an alien civilization
• A rulebook composed entirely of symbols and icons
• An intentionally unresolved question: whether you have understood the rules correctly

City of Six Moons makes interpretation part of the experience. As you work through its unfamiliar visual language, you will have to decide how the information in the box fits together and what the symbols mean.

The game offers no mechanisms list to reveal how it works, and its designer will never answer rules questions. You will never know whether you have gotten it right or not, making the act of deciphering the system inseparable from guiding the civilization itself.

For players drawn to unusual designs and games that withhold familiar explanations, City of Six Moons presents an unusual challenge. It is both a solitaire civilization game and an artifact that seems to come from somewhere beyond the usual traditions of board game design.