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Alien-Themed Board Games: A World Beyond Our Own

Alien-themed board games transport players to the farthest reaches of space and imagination. They tap into the universal curiosity about life beyond Earth and leverage the mystery and excitement that the subject of extraterrestrial beings invokes.

Why Aliens?

Alien themes offer boundless creativity in game design. They allow for unique storytelling, diverse character creation, and the exploration of theoretical science concepts within the framework of fun and engaging gameplay.

Common Mechanics

Games with an alien theme often include:

Exploration: Delving into unknown planets or space sectors.
Combat: Encounters with alien species may result in conflict.
Resource Management: Gathering and utilizing scarce interstellar materials.
Cooperation or Deception: Working with others or bluffing about alien intentions.

Notable Examples

Here are a few prominent alien-themed board games:

Cosmic Encounter: Emphasizing negotiation and strategic alliances.
Twilight Imperium: Known for its epic scale and complexity, involving diplomacy and warfare.
Alien Frontiers: Combines dice placement mechanics with resource management on an alien planet.
XCOM: The Board Game: Integrates a digital app for real-time decision-making against an alien invasion.

Concluding Thoughts

Alien-themed board games continue to fascinate and challenge players, offering a wide range of interactive experiences that appeal to many due to their often cooperative, strategic, and imaginative play.

Jeux à thématique Video Game Theme et Aliens

ALERT: SENSORS INDICATE THAT ALIENS ARE INVADING THE RED PLANET!As you begin to establish the first colonies on Mars, you discover that you are not alone in the galaxy… and that you are not welcome anywhere beyond Earth. Play the familiar role of human...

Experience the groundbreaking M.U.L.E. The Board Game. Join your fellow alien pioneers on an exciting expedition to planet Irata.On the planet, claim plots of land, fit M.U.L.E.'s (Multiple Use Labor Elements) for harvesting of food, energy, smith ore...

Master of Orion: The Board Game will take you into the epic world of the legendary strategy video game. You will lead one of the mighty races that face each other in a grand space struggle. Your actions will determine the fate of the sneaky Darloks, ...

Paris has fallen. New York is a pile of rubble spilling into the Atlantic. Alien attacks against Nanjing and Changzhou prompt widespread panic throughout the streets of Shanghai. Defense satellites detect UFOs in orbit over Mexico, Russia, and Brazil...

Jeux utilisants Area Majority / Influence à thématique Aliens

Jeux publiés par Clever Mojo Games à thématique Aliens

Do you have what it takes to be a deep space colonist? An alien frontier awaits the brave and daring! This new planet will be harsh, but if you have the skills to manage your resources, build a fleet, research alien life, and settle colonies, the world...

Alien Frontiers (5th Printing)

Now that the potential of the new frontier has been realized, powerful factions have begun vying for control! The Definitive Edition of Factions includes all the factions and cards from the original expansion as well as all of the content from the Faction...

Alien Frontiers - Factions (Definitive Edition)

Jeux utilisants Hidden Roles à thématique Aliens

A mysterious alien plague has crept aboard the space station and is transforming the human crew into horrendous monsters! The remaining crewmen desperately try to save their lives by escaping from the derelict spaceship, but in the darkness the aliens...

In One Night Ultimate Alien, strange beings from the heavens have infiltrated your small village, bringing fearsome futuristic technology and an insatiable appetite for both Villagers and Cows. Fortunately, the village has many powerful inhabitants, ...

An alien lifeform has infiltrated a bleak and desolate Antarctic research station assimilating other organisms and then imitating them. In the hidden identity game The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31, you will relive John Carpenter's sci-fi cult classic...

A dangerous alien, capable of taking any form, has been released from its hibernation after millennia. The researchers of Outpost 31, isolated in Antarctica, are the only ones who can stop the creature. The future of humanity is in their hands...The ...

Strategy Game à thématique Aliens

Aliens - Bug Hunt

Cosmic Encounter (42nd Anniversary Edition)

Cosmic Encounter (2009 Edition)

Martian Fluxx (Version 1.1)

Visitor in Blackwood Grove

Hunted - Mining Colony 415

Under Falling Skies

Shadow Planet, The

Who Goes There? (2nd Edition, Deluxe, Deluxe Outpost Edition)

King of Tokyo: Origins

Origins: Ancient Wonders Expansion

Steven Rhodes Games: Don't Talk to Strangers

Origins: First Builders

Jeux publiés par Gale Force 9 à thématique Aliens

Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps (Updated Edition)

Aliens (Updated Edition): Get Away From Her You B***h! Expansion

Aliens (Updated Edition): We're in the Pipe, Five by Five Expansion

Aliens (Updated Edition): Ultimate Badasses Expansion

Doctor Who: Time of the Daleks

Jeux utilisants Variable Player Powers à thématique Aliens

Alien: Fate of the Nostromo

AvP - The Hunt Begins (1st Edition)

Who Goes There?

AvP - The Hunt Begins (2nd Edition)

Card Game à thématique Aliens

In galaxies far, far away, powerful alien empires have always fought for the most prized resource of the universe: cows.Vie for control of these precious beings while trying to prevent your adversaries from discovering which planets are your favorite...

There are alien armies on all fronts! Take command of one of four asymmetric armies in a huge battle and deploy your units strategically and carefully. You can't possibly win all the fights on the battlefield. Choose which battles to resolve in which...

Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deck Building Game is really two games in one: You can play as humans working together to escape and fight off the Predator. Or your group can play as Predators competing to hunt humans and earn the most Honor. You can...

Jeux publiés par Do it games à thématique Aliens

War of the Worlds: The New Wave

War of the Worlds: The New Wave is an asymmetrical deck-building game with a playing board for two players. The game events unfold several years after the original "War of the Worlds" story by H.G. Wells.The extraterrestrial invasion is occurring once...

Science Fiction

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

Hand Management

Jeux illustrés par Alexandr Kiselev à thématique Aliens

First Contact

An exceptional party game where imaginary ancient Egyptians re trying to overcome the language barrier with...Aliens.In each turn Aliens will draw weird symbols, trying to explain which earth items they'd like to collect. Puzzled Egyptians are trying...

Ancient Civilization

Communication Limits

Jeux à thématique Adventure et Aliens

Survive the WildLow on fuel, your rocket's guidance system leads you to a mysterious, abandoned spaceport on a remote moon.The spaceport is completely overgrown with jungle and is infested with a colony of spider-like aliens who don't take kindly to ...

Long before the threat of the Nemesis, before the perils of warp drive or the founding of our own Space Academy, humanity experienced a Golden Age of space exploration. The mineral riches of the thriving Moon colony inspired legions of hearty Earth ...

In this fast and goofy family game, 2 to 4 players begin by simultaneously rummaging through the common warehouse, frantically trying to grab the most useful component tiles for building their space ship—all in real-time.Once the ships are launched,...

At the furthermost tip of the galaxy burns a small white star. Here lie the remnants of the First Born, an advanced civilization that conquered the galaxy long ago but found themselves utterly alone, and brought low by civil war. One war-like faction...

Jeux publiés par IGAMES à thématique Aliens

Jeux publiés par Korea Boardgames à thématique Aliens

Nemesis - Lockdown transports players to a threatening and enigmatic scenario on Mars, where survival hinges on strategic thinking and careful exploration of a multi-level base. As a game of intricate design, it blends cooperative and competitive elements...

Nemesis is a 1-5 player survival with incredible miniatures and clever, immersive rules that include cooperation, bluffing, backstabbing, and all other elements of an iconic science-fiction horror adventure.The crew wakes up from hibernation. The damage...

To play the Chytrids expansion, you will need the Nemesis Lockdown or the original Nemesis game to play. To play Carnomorphs, Void Seeders, or Aftermath characters in the Nemesis Lockdown, you will need the corresponding expansions. Components:22 high...

The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away, and the Empire rules the galaxy by fear. Its newly constructed battle station, the Death Star, is powerful enough to destroy any opposition.Yet, there is a new hope. A brave few have chosen ...

Jeux publiés par Albi à thématique Aliens

Jeux conçus par Prospero Hall à thématique Aliens

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - Light Years From Home Game

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was left behind, and now, federal agents are coming for him! In this cooperative adventure game, play as Elliott, Gertie, Michael, and Greg as you work together to send E.T. home. Bike through the neighborhood, using shortcuts...

Movies / TV / Radio theme

Science Fiction

Jeux développés par Peter Vaughan à thématique Aliens

Mission Catastrophe (Deluxe Edition)

The ship is doomed, but you aren't phased. Set a course for MAXIMUM DANGER and buckle up in style. Complete with bonus crew members, asimo-v personal robots, special modules (and a towel?), this is the fullest experience you can have this side of the...

principalement positif, 75 %

Cooperative Game

Variable Set-up

Jeux publiés par Hobby Japan à thématique Aliens

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