The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine

About this board game

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine is a cooperative trick-taking game for 2–5 players, with missions designed to take around 20 minutes. Players become astronauts embarking on an uncertain space adventure to investigate the rumors surrounding an unknown planet.

The journey unfolds across 50 exciting missions, each presenting varied individual tasks that the team must complete together. Success depends on every player fulfilling their own assignment, so the group must coordinate carefully rather than simply focus on winning the most tricks.

Communication is essential, but space makes teamwork more difficult than expected. During each mission, the challenge is not the number of tricks taken; it is taking the right tricks at the right time. Every decision contributes to the team’s shared objective.

• Cooperative trick-taking gameplay for 2–5 players
• A 50-mission space adventure with increasingly difficult challenges
• Individual tasks that require the entire team to succeed
• Missions that can be paused and continued later

With each completed mission, the difficulty increases, creating a steadily developing test of planning and coordination. The team completes a mission only when every player has successfully met their task, making shared progress more important than individual achievement.

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine can be played as an ongoing journey or in separate sessions, since the adventure may be paused after any mission and continued later. The game includes 50 missions, plus three additional missions published in spielbox 2/2020.