Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Chart an unknown galaxy by fitting shared shapes onto your map, discovering alien worlds, upgrades, treasure, and dangerous black holes.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Distant Suns is a compact map-drawing game about exploring an uncharted galaxy. On each turn, the active player chooses one polyomino shape for their own map and assigns another to every rival, creating a constant tension between opportunity and obstruction. Players arrange those shapes among planets, aliens, upgrades, treasure, and black holes across three rounds, scoring discoveries while trying to avoid costly spatial mistakes. The same shared choices produce very different personal star maps.
