Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Guide the starship Exodus, negotiate between human-machine hybrids, and build the technologies that can seed another world.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Negotiation
Make proposals, promises, or deals directly with other players.
Semi-Cooperative Game
Players share some objectives while retaining individual victory conditions.
Market
Buy and sell through a shared supply whose availability or prices can change.
Melding and Splaying
Combine cards into sets and spread them to expose additional icons or effects.
Simulation
Model a real or imagined system through detailed cause-and-effect rules.
Read the full game description
Interstellar is a science-fiction simulation of humanity’s first voyage to another star. Seven human-machine hybrids aboard the Exodus develop technologies for survival, propulsion, communication, terraforming, and colonization while the ship crosses an unforgiving gulf. Players meld and splay cards into developing tableaux, manage markets and scarce capabilities, and negotiate the compromises needed to keep the mission alive. Everyone shares the danger of failure, but prestige and influence still determine who shaped humanity’s future.
