Race for the Galaxy

Temple Gates Games LLC

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About this game

Race for the Galaxy is a strategy boardgame where players advance their empire by playing cards to build technological developments or to settle planets. Its core mechanic is a phase choosing game. Players secretly and simultaneously determine which one of seven phases they will lock in, all reveal at once, then execute the phases in order. Will you build an engine to ramp up VP generation on cheapo production planets? Will you invest in exploration and settle rare and valuable VP rich planets? Or will you rush a military conquest to cut off your opponents before they have a chance to develop their strategy.

Game Features

▪ 2 – 4 player with network multiplayer
▪ Single player mode with advanced neural network AI
▪ Five starting worlds and ninety settlement and development cards
▪ Free promo pack included: New Worlds with six additional starting planets
▪ Gathering Storm and Rebel Vs. Imperium expansions available for purchase

Ratings and reviews

This is my favorite game on android. I play it asynchronously with a family member regularly. It would be 5 stars, but a recent android update broke push notifications, making it much harder to complete a game before the whole game times out, at least for me. I will raise this back to a 5 when notifications return.

LOVE the game. The AI is great. Implementation of the game works very well most of the time. The UI is seriously lacking, though. Would love to see some way to track games played against others and maybe some way to communicate with other players. Why do I have to wait for others to take actions that are supposed to be done simultaneously. I have no idea what determines what order things are done. Also, for the amount of money spent on this app, it crashes unacceptably often, as do the online servers. Please update soon and often! This game is too good to be this frustrating.

I love this game, and the app is even better than the physical version. It's nearly perfect. all it's missing would be a few more options for multiplayer time limits. You can do 30 minutes, one week, or four weeks. 30 minutes is often too short, but a week is much too long! Why no option for one hour, or 24 hours? Two days? We need more options in between.

What's new

Fixed bugs with keyboard input.
Update to support 64 bit only phones.
Update to support more phone resolutions.
Fixed bugs with notifications on Android 13.