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Escape

from the Aliens in outer Space

The Selva, a deep-space explorer and research vessel, has been heavily damaged and to make things worse an alien plague has invaded the ship and changes humans into aliens who want to devour the humans.

Players are either human searching for the escape hatch or alien hunting humans. Humans each play by themselves, aliens try to cooperate. You secretly note down the coordinates of the sector where you want to go, humans can move 1 sector, aliens 1 or 2. In dangerous sectors you draw a card and follow the instructions as regards to announcing your location, bluffing about your location or silence, this card is kept secret, too. After movement aliens can attack: If you are present in the attacked sector you must announce this and quit the game, regardless if you are alien or human. So attacks must be carefully timed as they declare the alien status of a player! The Black Edition of the game features three different maps for the ship. Galilei is a good introductory scenario, Fermi is strategically challenging and best played by up to 6 players, and Galvani is best with up to 8 experienced players. The rules for the advanced game add new character abilities and items to the game, and it is possible that both aliens and humans win, because whoever survives is a winner.

Escape from the Aliens is game of bluff and deduction game with a horror Sci-Fi background, which somewhat reminds me of Battleship, with the difference that it only needs one hit to sink a player – but it is funny and challenging and stays interesting due to the advanced rules and the scenario tool available from the web.

Players: 2-8

Age: 12+

Duration: 30+

Designer: Nicolo Tedeschi, Mario Porpora, Pietro Righi Riva, Luca Francesco Rossi 

Artist: Giulia Ghigini

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Cranio Creations 2010

Web: www.eftaios.com

Genre: A game of bluff and deduction

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: en

Rules: de en es fr it kr pt

In-game text: no

Comments:

Topic only for fans of Horror Sci-Fi * basically simple mechanism * stays interesting due to advanced rules and scenario download possibility

Compares to :

Battleship or Scotland Yard for deducting secret locations

Other editions:

Angriff der Aliens aus dem All, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, and others

Chance: 1

Tactic: 1

Strategy: 2

Creativity: 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory: 2

Communication: 0

Interaction: 0

Dexterity: 0

Action: 0