Under Falling Skies Reviews

4.9 Rating 46 Reviews

Under Falling Skies in 3 Mins Rob Plays Under Falling Skies .newspaper {column-count: 2;}Aliens have arrived to conquer Earth. Enemy ships fill the skies. Humanity retreats to underground bunkers across the globe, hopiong to develop a weapon that will stop the invaders.Buy yourself time by shooting down enemy ships. Dig your base deeper to expand your capabilities.In this dedicated solo game, every action you take moves the enemy ships closer to the city you are trying to defend. Higher die rolls give you more powerful actions, but also make the ships descend faster. Use your rerolls wisely, and you might just be able to save your planet.Contents:Standard Game ‣ 5 Purple Ships ‣ 4 White Ships ‣ 3 Plastic Tokens ‣ 7 Wooden Dice ‣ 1 Excavator Token ‣ 1 Mothership Tile ‣ 4 Sky Tiles ‣ 3 Base Tiles ‣ 3 Ctiy Tiles ‣ 1 RulebookCampaign Game ‣ 1 Campaign Notebook ‣ 4 Chapter Comics Sheets ‣ 14 More Cities ‣ 12 Upgradable Characters ‣ 13 Unique Scenarios ‣ 8 Additional Base & Sky Tiles ‣ 1 Special Orange Ship ‣ Cardboard Scenario TokensAges: 12+Players: 1Game Length: 20-40 minutes

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“Game play is very quick and easy to understand. good variability You do need some space to lay out the board.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Great solo game. Challenging with ways to increase difficulty! Can't wait to dive into the campaign”

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Posted 2 years ago

“If you're like me and you're looking for good solo options to fill the time between group play, this should probably be one of your first picks. It's a sort of dice/worker placement game, with a little bit of push your luck to it, and an efficiency puzzle. It looks like space invaders meet Independence Day, but while the theme is strong that's not really what the game plays like. Even with the dice, there isn't strictly speaking a lot of luck to it since you get rerolls and where you place the dice is just as important as the value you roll. This game is more of a puzzle. Where do you need to put the dice in order to position the alien ships so that you can shoot down multiple of them in one go, while still making sure you have time to research and gain energy, and you have to be careful about how you position the dice because they can't share columns so choosing to do one option will cut off your other options. What makes this game work is that everything is so tightly bound together, that every decision you make will have an effect on every other decision you could have made. I haven't found this to be a brain burner yet, at least on the easier difficulties, because ultimately while there are bad options and slightly worse options and good options and perfect options, it is more about tradeoffs so you'll find yourself saying "maybe this isn't the ideal choice, but it's a good choice at least" and that may be enough to win the game. At higher difficulties, you will probably have to make ideal decisions every time to win if that's your thing. If not, then just don't play the higher difficulties, I know I probably won't. Aside from gameplay, at the end of the day they packed a lot in this box for a surprisingly low price. There's a ton of extra campaign stuff that you may or may not choose to use including different abilities for your cities you defend, characters, etc. This game may not be for everyone, but if you like solo gaming, you don't mind a sort of euro-y efficiency puzzle, but you also like chucking dice and blowing stuff up, this game will probably worth it for you.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“This is my favorite solo game. It’s like a board game version of the old Galaga game, except you use dice placement to try and stop aliens from landing. It has several different cities with different variations, and a campaign mode.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“The alien mothership is slowly descending on your base and sending fighter craft to bombard you. You have until the mother ship reaches attack range or the fighters destroy your base to research the means to stop the invasion. Under Falling Skies is a dice game with a heavy worker placement element. Placing higher value dice gives you greater rewards, but also makes the alien fighters descend faster. You can manipulate the rate the alien ships descend to place them into kill zones, though, which will allow your fighters to shoot them down. For what it is, there's a decent amount of strategy in the gameplay. There are also a lot of ways to adjust the gameplay, with double-sided sky, city, and base tiles. There's also a campaign, which I haven't tried yet, that adds even more options.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“The puzzle is always different enough to bring you back. Multiple levers to pull to set your own difficulty, and if that's not enough there's a campaign mode. 5 out of 5”

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