In Tiny Epic Galaxies players will be competing to earn victory points through colonizing planets and improving your empires abilities. The first player to reach 21 victory points wins. 
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This is one of my favorite of the Tiny Epic Games. This was also my first introduction into the Tiny Epic Universe. It was described as a big game in a little box, and that is definitely a solid description. Gameplay is pretty smooth and easy to teach, and learn. The following mechanic is a great way to keep other players invested during other people's turns. The base game has a solo option where it’s you against rogue factions. Each faction has their own abilities and strategies. 
The game does have 1 major expansion, Beyond The Black. This ads more ship varieties, more ways to gain points, as well as a point tracker mat to help keep track of score. It also has two play mats that are available which give the game a lot of room and a lot of pop on the table. 

Players work together to play cards into a single pile of cards in an ascending order. The trick is you cannot communicate what cards are in your hands. In fact you can’t communicate at all with other players. Can the players clear their hands out in eight levels of play? Ten? Twelve? 
The players start with a number of lives equal to the number of players. Each player receives a number of cards based on the level of the game. Round 1 one cards each, round 2 two cards each. Each player tries to play a card in ascending order to the previously played cards. If no one holds a card lower than the one just played the game continues. If someone does all players discard all face up cards lower than what you played and players lose a life. Lose all your lives and it’s game over. When everyone empties their hand successfully the round has been won. Players have an opportunity to earn Shuriken cards. When played Shurikens allow players to discard their lowest card face up. Opening up options for play to continue. 

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This game is tricky and fun. Not being able to speak to each other is super difficult. It takes a bit of finesse with the card playing to know when to play your cards. Early on it’s not so bad. Starting off you have one card each so it can be easier. 
This is definitely a fun game in our collection and it is simple enough for a variety of folks to play from seasoned gamers to beginner gamers. 


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​Players clear off the locations of mint tokens. Each player gains one mint and the players may begin their turn. 

The game does feature a solo mode where the players have a solitaire ai to face. Each of these brings their own challenges to the game. 

The game is a minty fresh take on the worker placement genre. It is super simple to play and pick up. It takes up such a small space on the table that it is easy to pull it out and set up quickly. It is definitely a solid travel game. Though the airport metal detectors might get a bit angry at the metal. 

While this game is fantastic to play it does have a few drawbacks. The first being the small packaging. While this is a great selling point of the game, there is so much to this game that sometimes getting the cards out of the little tin can be difficult. I do not have very dexterous hands and they are very large as well which I understand is a factor. AI can be difficult to follow along with the flow of how they work. It has taken me a few plays to get their patterns down right. The only other critique of the game going back to the small size of the container is there isn’t much room for expansion of more buildings. While the advanced locations do provide great randomness to the game they can be a bit repetitive.