Space Alert

Game Description

Get ready for an unprecedented space survival experience with Space Alert, the renowned cooperative board game from Czech Games Edition. Year 2008. Assume the role of a crew member of a small spaceship tasked with exploring dangerous sectors of the galaxy. Your mission? Simple, yet incredibly intense: protect the ship. Each mission lasts exactly 10 minutes of real time, a frantic period that will test your reaction and collaboration skills against all odds.

As the central computer counts down the time through an exciting soundtrack, you will be forced to face a myriad of alien threats and cosmic dangers. From formidable space battleships and interceptors, to interstellar monsters, asteroids, and even intruders or malfunctions aboard your own ship. The key to success lies in impeccable team coordination. Players will have to quickly agree on who will handle which task, moving around the ship, operating weapons, distributing energy, deploying battle robots against intruders, or launching guided missiles. Only shared, real-time strategic management can ensure a safe return.

Space Alert offers high replayability thanks to different difficulty levels and incredible variability, always ensuring a unique experience. Each game, including setup and scoring, concludes in just 30 minutes, making it perfect for dynamic and intense gaming sessions. Whether you're a lone wolf or part of a team, the game is designed for 1-5 players, offering compelling challenges for everyone. Get ready to experience the adrenaline of defending your ship against all odds, where every decision counts and time is your greatest enemy.

Rules

Space Alert is a cooperative team survival game for 1-5 players. Participants take on the role of spaceship crew members tasked with exploring dangerous sectors of the galaxy. Each mission has a fixed duration of 10 minutes of actual gameplay, during which the sole objective is to protect the ship from imminent threats in order to perform the hyperspace jump and return safely.

The core of the game is a real-time timer system, managed via a 10-minute soundtrack that also announces the arrival of various threats. These can include battleships, interceptors, interstellar monsters, asteroids, onboard intruders, or internal malfunctions. Players must collaborate and make quick decisions, coordinating their actions simultaneously to respond effectively to every danger.

The main actions players can take to defend the ship include:

Moving between spaceship sectors
Operating weapons
Distributing energy among systems
Using battlebots to confront intruders
Launching guided missiles

Only a well-organized team with excellent coordination can hope to survive the 10-minute mission and successfully complete the return to base. The game offers various difficulty levels and high replayability.