Board Game Night: Moon Colony Bloodbath

Moon Colony Bloodbath is an engine-building, engine-losing tableau game, with a shared deck that makes things happen, many of them bad things that kill people in your moon colony, but also positive effects that help you build up.

Each turn, a card is revealed from the shared deck, which starts with four work cards, two trouble cards, and two twists. When "Work" cards are revealed from the shared deck, each player takes an action of their choice: mining gains money, farming gains food, research gets cards, build allows players to build new buildings, or to restock boxes on buildings in your colony. Twists vary in effect from one game to the next, while Troubles add new event cards to the deck: hunger, paperwork, glitches, power failures, and more. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Only the power of human ingenuity protects your colonists from the cold, unfeeling vacuum of…