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Lux Aeterna, Frosted Games/Surprised Stare Games, 2019 — front cover
Sample Art
Ready to play on the small tray within a German train
Lux Box Art
My own Black Hole Proximity Track - Based on Alex Lee's drawing
Components
Just opened the Box
Gamebox
Homemade insert
Bragging time! Finally managed a new high score of 74 with a 10 minute timer (2 min to spare). Starting this  close to the black hole makes it very hard to repair systems since my focus is staying away from the Schwarzschild radius.

Lux Aeterna (2019)

Players
1
Best: 1
Playing time
6–15 min
Age
10+
6.97
Average rating
1,151
Ratings
2.00/5
Weight
#3392
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Designer:Tony Boydell
Artist:Alex Lee
Publisher:Surprised Stare Games Ltd +2 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 2, Complexity 4, Theme 6
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction2.0
Complexity4.0
Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Card GameScience FictionReal-timeHand ManagementOpen DraftingSolo / Solitaire GameReal-TimeMulti-Use Cards

Overview

Your ship has sustained massive damage, is falling apart around you, and is drifting toward the ultimate catastrophe, a black hole. You are alone.

Your challenge in Lux Aeterna is to draw and play all of the cards in the main deck, one turn after another, without the spaceship collapsing completely or falling into the black hole. Cards have multiple functions; you will assign drawn cards to one each of these functions each turn:

As damage to a system (with six systems available to you); As an action to help stay alive/fix the ship; or, As movement toward the black hole.

If a ship's system collapses, the game will get harder for you; if you should repair a system, then you just might avoid the ultimate doom.

Events (called "glitches") can be seeded into the main deck to make things even more difficult, as will reducing the real time that you have to play: 12 minutes -> 10 minutes -> 8 minutes, etc.

—description from the designer

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