Voidfall

The game setup involves arranging the main board made of hexagonal sector tiles representing star systems, alongside the galactic board for tracking turn order and cycles. Each player receives a player board where they insert their chosen house faction, resource dials to track five resource types, focus cards, and starting tokens. Voidborn enemy fleets and corruption tokens are placed in designated sectors to act as opponents, and galactic event cards and technology cards are laid out in their respective areas for the upcoming cycles.

Players take on the roles of great houses belonging to the Dominion galactic empire, competing to rid the galaxy of the evil Voidborn. The ultimate goal is to amass the most influence points over the course of three game cycles by expanding territory, managing resources, fighting tactical non-random combat, and fulfilling agenda cards.

Each cycle is divided into three phases: preparation, focus, and evaluation. During preparation, players determine turn order via a priority track and select a galactic event card. In the focus phase, players take turns playing focus cards from their hand to execute up to two distinct actions per card. Actions include producing resources via placed guilds, moving fleets between sectors, invading enemy-controlled spaces to initiate combat, building infrastructure like shipyards and defense installations, and advancing society, statecraft, or economic tracks.

Scoring happens during the evaluation phase at the end of each cycle and at the game's conclusion. Players earn influence points by meeting the criteria listed on chosen galactic event and agenda cards, controlling sectors, researching technology cards, and developing installations. Players must also subtract points if they cannot pay upkeep costs in supply resources.

Voidfall is played over exactly three cycles, each consisting of multiple rounds determined by the galactic event cards. After the evaluation phase of the third and final cycle, all final influence points and penalties are tallied, and the player with the highest score is crowned the winner.