Renegade Game Studios Renegade Games Studios RGS0594 Clank in Space Game, Multicolor, 31.12 x 8.26 x 31.12 cm

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I’ll be showing my age by noting that based on the arcade cabinets chosen, I would also be considered “vintage”. Each of these has benefit (Swords, Boots and treasure points for the end game), so they certainly have a use.

Clank in Space is a deck builder that pits you against your friends to see who can claim the most points by looting the ship and escaping alive. Look, it’s just a fun game with a lot of replayability and differing mechanisms to introduce new players to the game as well as provide substantial enjoyment to seasoned players. With each more powerful card you may pick up along the way, you’ll also draw cards that are enemies and/or have the dreaded Eradikus icon in its frame on the card. The three central units can be rearranged as you like and each are double sided, with different layouts of rooms and traps and other bits and pieces to tempt or distract you. Over time you will end up adding more and more of your colored cubes based on how much noise you make, which is usually determined by the cards you play.That said I have so much fun building my deck and just chatting about the game with other players during play that I don’t even mind the low interaction. But 90% of your failures are going to stem from your own miscalculations, greed, or one other important variable, the other players. This time, you are on a circular station instead of a space ship, and facing off against the dreaded Commander Preon, a boss lady who knows what kind of cybernetics she likes!

I do also like the fact that the base game is relatively quick to play (for 4 of us, we can be done in about 70 minutes so we can even sneak games in on weekday evenings sometimes). Certainly not necessary to ever even touch the Reserve, but it’s another strategic option I usually forget about until halfway through the game. If a new adventure row card has the attack icon, cubes get pulled from the bag according to the rage track. The basic gameplay of Clank in Space is relatively unchanged, though I also really like the Executive Escape Pods.After all this time, what do you think is the best way to play Clank / Clank in Space and which of them do you prefer? The Artifacts with the higher points are in harder to reach spaces, so they come with their own risk. He may rule with an iron grip, but his most prized artifacts are about to slip through his cyborg claws.