SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence BGG ↗

SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence · English edition · (2024)

Your rating: 8.0

My BGG Comment

Some thoughts after one game: * I like the rulebook. It was easy to go through it to learn the game. Also all the edgecases I could find were annotated and thought of. This seems to have seen some thorough playtesting. Yay! (Example: “Can I take free actions during my pass turn to move my probes and deliver samples?” “Yes you can!”) * The turning pieces of the board seemed gimmicky to me and I was very hesitant about the game because of it. I don’t like games with gimmicks. Turns out this is not only well produced (you could possibly light the sun with a small LED) but a well integrated central mechanism that I enjoyed a lot during the game. Yay again! * Another thing: this game has a lot of stuff on the table. But once you learned the rules, it doesn’t seem that much anymore. Especially the per player area remains pretty neat and doesn’t take up too much space. I also like that the dual layer player boards are just foded boards stuck together which probably prevents warping and also is much cheaper to produce for CGE. Those are nice. Table hog but not overly so. * Rules retention / mistakes: we consulted the rulebook twice during our game. One was the example above about free actions in passing turns and the other was also about the passing turn when to turn rotate the board. Except for one minor setup mistake with one of the technologies, we didn’t have any blunders. * There are neat folding player aids that explain all the icons and we almost didn’t need them. But it’s nice they exist and thanks to the folding they don’t clutter the table. * Everything fits into the box. No needless amounts of air. Just enough that one could build an insert which might be useful to have at least a little box thing for the techs which have to be sorted just so for every game. That I have to mention some of these speaks to the level of quality that I have had on my table in recent years. CGE seem to have made a well-produced and well-developed game here. More on my blog: https://blog.delusions.de/game/2024-10-07-seti/