Episode 287: Crafting the Cosmos

Crafting the Cosmos is designed by David Gordon and TAM and published by Office Dog.

Crafting the Cosmos is a 2-4 player game where you’re a space architect competing to build the coolest galaxy in the universe-one hydrogen token at a time. To win the game, score the most points by completing nebulas, spawning life, and crushing the universal objectives.

Crafting the Cosmos is played over a series of rounds that are composed of two phases. The energy phase and then the craft phase. In the energy phase you move your energy marble and possibly other marbles up to 3 spaces around a central board that are broken into sections (time, gravity, matter or entropy) to collect resources. Depending on how many marbles are in that section will determine how much of that resource you can collect like (hydrogen, helium, carbon and oxygen which are needed to complete nebulas, and you can get power cards, proto-life, more nebulae or TIME CRYSTALS. Where your energy marble lands gives you a little something extra as well. THEN In the craft phase you will spend those collected resources to lay down nebula tiles, drop stars into place, evolve proto-life into advanced life because SCIENCE and play energy cards to buy or activate power cards that give you powerful effects.

Crafting the Cosmos ends if the time crystal tokens in the supply are depleted or if the last universal goal card is scored. If end game is triggered you flip your hidden upgraded advanced life tokens, count your points and whomever has the most points wins. Now let’s head back to the studio to hear which PEG basked in the glory of galactic domination.