Cysmic

About this board game

Cysmic is a sci-fi strategy wargame for 1–6 players, with games lasting about 180 minutes. Set on a crumbling planet, it challenges rival factions to survive long enough to build and launch a colony ship.

The planet was meant to become a new utopia, but a destabilized terraforming process has doomed the colonists’ world. Society has fractured, information is scattered, and each faction must fight for the resources and blueprint modules needed to escape.

Players manage their empires while recruiting units, exploring their surroundings, waging war, and developing their economies. Enemy units can be captured, providing knowledge that may help complete the colony ship’s construction.

• Gather resources and secure the information needed for construction.
• Recruit units and protect your faction’s base.
• Capture enemy units while competing for control of the dying planet.
• Evacuate all your units before launching your completed colony ship.

Play proceeds in rounds of five turns per player. On each turn, a player plays one Unit card or Tactic card, then performs a bonus action. When everyone has completed five turns, the round ends and the next round begins with the player holding the first player token.

There are no points in Cysmic. Victory belongs to the first faction to build its colony ship, evacuate its units, and launch offworld. The ignition may destroy the planet, so every decision pushes the survivors closer to a final race for escape.