From the Moon Deluxe Edition: the high-stakes race to save humanity by La Boîte de Jeu
Designed by Johannes Goupy and Gilles el-Alis, illustrated by Anthony Wolff for La Boîte de Jeu, From the Moon - Deluxe Edition is an expert engine-building and worker-placement board game for one to four players. With Earth on the brink of ecological collapse, players command rival space corporations based on the Moon, racing to harvest resources, construct bio-domes, and assemble three colossal space arks to preserve humanity. This crowdfunding Deluxe Edition vastly expands the core retail release by doubling the available asymmetric factions and incorporating over twenty stretch-goal content upgrades. The game features:
- A total of 8 asymmetric factions equipped with dual-layer player boards and custom starting parameters.
- Nearly one hundred plastic miniatures representing lunar rovers and astronaut teams.
- Bonus gameplay tiles including advanced mission parameters, extra laboratory facilities, and an upgraded solo mode.
Worker placement, rover surface expeditions, and spaceship assembly
Matches demand rigorous logistics where every battery charge and oxygen reserve must be managed:
- Deploying rovers across the lunar terrain: Program surface expeditions to drill through regolith, extract rare minerals, build foundation sites, and assemble research domes.
- Activating specialists: Station scientists and engineers inside your facilities to trigger resource combos and power up energy grids across the colony.
- Assembling the three colony arks: Contribute polymers, refined water, and propulsion modules to the joint construction of the three giant escape ships to earn victory points.
- Corporate asymmetry: Leverage unique corporation traits to streamline logistics and overcome harsh lunar survival constraints.
Launching the escape arks and final contribution assessment
The contest concludes as soon as all three colony ships are fully assembled and prepared for launch:
- Ark contribution scoring: Corporations calculate victory points based on structural components, life support systems, and engines supplied to the ark project.
- Base development milestones: Tally additional victory points for completed living domes, operational labs, and fulfilled corporate achievements.
- Leading the new dawn: The participant with the highest cumulative contribution score wins the game and takes charge of humanity's destiny beyond the stars. From the Moon: Deluxe Edition is an exceptional heavy eurogame, perfect for fans of hard sci-fi and demanding economic optimization where forward planning decides the future of human civilization.
