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From the Juggernaut Stone Maier Games.
I sat with a table of 6 of lost souls who "In Game" have crash landed on a planet.
You wander around a little and find the objectives.
We had the task to find 5 "Bli-lithium Crystals" as I will remember it.
Think "The Wreck of the Pandora" only not as good.
The mechanics were a bit cumbersome for such a simple game. There are six general things you can do: Move, Engage, Study, Attack .... something something.
There's a symbol for the action and a color and a bunch of new words that mean about the same thing.
And, we had a thing called "Boost" which was "Re-Roll" only spelled "Boost".
And, then when you have to use the skills, you mitigate the skill use using the symbols on everyone's cards, When you've moved all the dice from this box to that box, you reset all the dice.
Now this would have been less of a problem if we weren't gamers. Because we each thought that there was some sort of game here. But, there wasn't.
So, for the few hours I played, I investigated the mission card and because of my investigation, I dropped the number of Bli-Lithium crystals needed from five gems to one. Was it an elaborate task? No. It just happened.
I found my sabre. I flew into a volcano because apparently I could not see the volcano. Don't worry, I got better.
Someone else found the single Bli-lithium crystal we needed and the game concluded.
It's a miss. A big glorious ... weighty cardy box of miss.
The group I played with was great. Everyone was serious and focused.
The game owner had played it before so as we were finding dull things, he was commenting that if we just take 19 more moves from that location, we would find the pyrate ship. Pyrate ship? Heck Yea!!!
One of the players found a dragon and fell on it's tale. She went through the underworld looking for the Bli-lithium crystal and thought maybe there was one there. Apparently so, but you had to be consumed by the Dragon to find it.
Consumed by the Dragon to find it. So, you're saying it's possible.
Fun time. Dumb game. It will sell a million.
(I tried finding a short review but could not find one. Watch for as long as you might endure.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOtNMEEO3M
Yours,
IronConrad
10-Feb-2026