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Designers | Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle |
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Illustrators | Vito Gesualdi |
Publishers | Wise Wizard Games |
Players | 2 to 4 (adding expansions allows the game to support more players) |
Playing time | until one of the players loses all their authority. |
Chance | Card draw |
Age range | 12 and up |
Star Realms is a card-based deck-building science-fiction tabletop game, designed by Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle and published in 2014 by Wise Wizard Games. The game started out as a Kickstarter campaign in 2013.[1] The goal of Star Realms is to destroy opponents by purchasing cards using "trade" points and using these cards to attack an opponent's "authority" using "combat" points. The game takes place in a distant future where different races compete to gain resources, trade and outmaneuver each other in a race to become ruler of the galaxy.[2]
Star Realms is similar to other deck-building games, like Ascension and Dominion. The game is marketed as portable and expandable, as it comes in a small box and contains only cards and no dice or markers. In 2016, Wise Wizard Games published a fantasy version of this game called Hero Realms.