Leaving Earth?
No, a board game of the same name.:
Similar mechanics with rolling dice to compete mission stages.
Though leaving earth is a good game too!
Just started playing this, and I’m enjoying it a lot so far, especially as an educational game for my two 6 year old sons. Agree that the depth may not be there, but there’s enough to enjoy and it’s excelling so far educationally. Not only are they learning about rockets and planets, but probabilities! Trying to get 6 year olds to understand what a 25% chance for a mission to succeed means is fun, and if they’re going to grow up to be hardcore gamers, this is what they’ll need to know. Sight words are great and all, but you gotta get probabilities and they’re still on counting and addition in kindergarten.
I’d like to thank “spacegamejunkie” too, I believe he posts here (I’ve lurked a lot). We bought the game after watching his video, the boys loved it. Hopefully Steam has some way of tracking that the curator video led to a sale, and you can get some internet points or whatever. =)
We’re still early in, so I’m not sure how well it will hold up or last longer term, but definitely don’t regret the purchase!
Started this up again, and we’re still enjoying it. Just launched the Grand Tour Voyager mission, and they just announced the sequel:
Not a lot of information yet, looks like you can build bases on the Moon and Mars. I wonder if the search for life will be static (always alien fish in the sea under the ice layer of Europa), so you could just beeline there. Or if you’ll need to actually follow clues and such, maybe there will be a few different possibilities.
I didn’t realize there was a thread for this! I got into it about six months ago, and had a great time. I think it’s a way better game than any of the more simulation-y versions I tried previously (like the Buzz Aldrin games). It just occurred to me: This is how Sid Meier would interpret the subject. It’s the Railroad Tycoon of space program sims. Maybe one of the Siddiest games released in recent memory, actually, including most of Firaxis’ output.
What a lovely reason to be tagged. Hello there!