Roswell Meltdown
The alien reactor is melting down. Hack the robots. Grab what you can. Get out.
2–4p · 30–60min · Age 12+ · Medium · Active 2019–present
Categories: Science Fiction
Mechanisms: Programmed Movement, Push Your Luck, Set Collection, Turn Order: Auction, Variable Player Powers
An alien spacecraft crashed at a remote military installation decades ago. The government kept it secret, until civilization collapsed. Now the alien reactor is going critical, and the military AI security robots are still patrolling on autopilot. You’re a scavenger-hacker at the perimeter, fighting to take control of the robots and extract sets of alien tech before the whole place blows.
This game is an early-stage experiment with turn order determined by bidding. Like Asteroid Miners, it’s about pick-up-and-deliver with imperfect controls and collecting sets on a board that’s progressively breaking (radiation spread here, exploding asteroid segments there).