Beyond the Sun (2020)

Game of the year for 2020. That’s the best way I can describe my love for this game.

Come for the gameplay, stay for the gameplay. The hype is justified!

The reviewer highly praises "Beyond the Sun" as one of their favorite games of the year, highlighting its emergent strategic experience and looking forward to many more plays to explore its varied systems.

The reviewer highly praises Beyond the Sun for its excellent tech tree, tension, crunchy decisions, and emergent storytelling, considering it one of the best games played in the year despite some uninspired artwork.

Beyond The Sun is quite an interesting take on tech trees, long my favorite part of civilization or space games. The tech tree is thoroughly the center of the game, but the board play still matters, and interacts with the tech side well.

The reviewer highly praises Beyond the Sun, describing it as an excellent medium-plus weight game with engaging worker placement, a strong tech tree, and area control elements. They particularly enjoyed the high replayability and considered it one of their favorite games of the year.

The reviewer highly praises "Beyond the Sun" as an incredibly interactive Euro game that expertly blends engine building, worker placement, and area control, offering a unique and fascinating experience with impressive technology advancements, though it might be challenging for new players initially due to its complexity and abstract theme.

The reviewer highly recommends "Beyond the Sun" for its engaging engine-building, efficient gameplay, and appealing space exploration theme, finding it a fun game with depth that will remain in their collection.

The reviewer enthusiastically praises "Beyond the Sun" as a mechanically solid and well-designed game that offers a very satisfying and fresh strategic experience, with its only minor drawback being subjective opinions on its graphical presentation.

I mean this is a game that I played once…..and immediately setup to play again. After that, I took a break to play something else…..but was thinking about this game the entire time.

A great addition to any well curated board game collection, I highly recommend Beyond the Sun.

The reviewer highly praises 'Beyond the Sun' for its exceptionally elegant and well-designed technology tree, considering it one of his favorite games from the previous year, despite its dry presentation.