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Description
Embark on an Out-of-This-World Strategy with Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Now available at Mind Games!
1 – 4 Players | Ages 14+ | 60 to 120 Minutes
Lead humanity’s first permanent lunar base and coordinate rival agencies as you build, explore, and compete in this exciting modular strategy game. Whether you’re forging alliances or competing for dominance, this game offers deep planning, strategic choices, and a glimpse into the future of space exploration.
Why You’ll Love Shackleton Base:
- Innovative Modular Sandbox System: Use a tile-based system to build structures, funding projects, and expanding the lunar base across three intense rounds.
- Multiple Play Modes: Designed for 1 to 4 players, perfect for solo missions or cooperative competitive play.
- Diverse Corporate Goals: Select three companies from seven unique corporations—each with special projects, scoring methods, and mechanisms—creating high replayability and varying strategies.
How the Game Flows:
- Shuttle Phase: Draft shuttle tiles to determine your astronauts, resources, and turn order, shaping your strategy for the round.
- Action Phase: Deploy astronauts—Technicians, Engineers, Scientists—to gather resources, construct base structures, or fund projects, each unlocking new abilities and potential points.
- Maintenance Phase: Assign astronauts to structures for bonuses, generate income, and pay costs; resolve corporation effects and prepare for the next round.
Key Features:
- Seven Unique Corporations: Only three are chosen for each game, each with distinct challenges and scoring opportunities:
- Selenium Research: Sample collection and analysis
- Sky Watch: Collaborative asteroid defense
- Artemis Tour: Tourist management and base expansion
- Moon Mining: Rare mineral extraction and shipment
- EverGreen: Farming and self-sustainability on Mars
- To Mars: Propulsion and planetary migration
- Space Robotics: Robotics and tech development
- Diverse Astronaut Roles: Use Technicians, Engineers, and Scientists to maximize efficiency, build structures, and advance your agency.
- End-Game Scoring: After three rounds, tally points based on structures, projects, reputation, and corporation achievements to determine the ultimate lunar pioneer.
Perfect for Strategy & Space Enthusiasts in Australia:
Whether you’re in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Perth, or Adelaide, Shackleton Base offers a rich, replayable experience of future space colonization, alliance-building, and resource management.
Visit Mind Games today to launch your agency into the future! Build, explore, and compete in the ultimate lunar adventure—who will claim victory among the stars?
