By request of Fantasy Flight Games, Board Game Geek lists the various editions of Cosmic Encounter in separate entries. Each edition is the same game at its core, but the features, compatible expansions, and production differ among them. This entry is for the original 1977 Eon version. Players represent alien races that are seeking to spread themselves...
User Description The White Dwarf expansion for Cosmic Encounter has four new Alien Powers cards for the Games Workshop edition of Cosmic Encounter (2nd edition). Published in the White Dwarf magazine, issue 78 with an article about Cosmic Encounter and its history. All four of the Alien Powers cards were in Eon expansion sets (Grudge in #1, the other three...
Players represent alien races that are seeking to spread themselves onto five foreign worlds. To accomplish this, they make challenges against other players and enlist the aid of interested parties. But alien powers, which are unique to each race, give players ways to bend or outright break some rule in the game. This is an updated version of the original...
In Cosmic Encounter, you play the leader of a colonization effort whose ships are traveling throughout the Cosmos to prove their worthiness for Cosmic leadership. Each player is a race that has the ability to bend or break certain rules in the game. You will use force, cunning, and diplomacy to win success for your unique form of alien intelligence....
This is the first expansion set for the Fantasy Flight Games version of Cosmic Encounter . Over the years, alien empires have risen and fallen. The Vacuum has failed to eliminate the Zombie, the Virus has spread far and wide, and the Loser has turned defeat into victory. 50 different species have tried to conquer the galaxy, and each have made their mark...
Cosmic Encounter 42nd Anniversary Edition welcomes new players to the game of infinite possibilities with a freshly revised rulebook and a beautifully illustrated Quick-start Guide that captures the nostalgia of the original game and makes it easy for anyone to learn. The Quick-start Guide’s comic book style throws readers back to the 1970s, providing...
Introduction: The compassionate bodhisattva has made a decree, seeing who can blast across the universe and reach enlightenment the fastest! Sugoroku is a classic game of moving pieces according to the roll of the dice, but dice won’t be needed in this cosmic high-speed sugoroku race game! Gameplay summary: Players try to be the first to move from the...
Costume Party is a quick card game about bluffing, memory, and looking great. The goal is to score the most points among several rounds of play by wearing certain costumes. Each round, players have a hand of three cards and can play one of five corny costumes -- Vampire, Mummy, Robot, Ghost, Zombie, or one half of a Horse costume -- and each costume works...
Cotto & Frullato is a game for only cool people. You've been recruited into a team of legendary action movie stars in the most epic competition in history. Finally the world will see who will be the best badass of all. Your task will be to taste different dishes that have been blended to pulp, recognize their nutritional benefits and assign them to each...
Couch Kingdom is an action based and area control card game that plays out over 3 timed rounds. Players can go solo or split up into teams and move around the game area placing their units on lands to claim them and get money. Teams only have several minutes to act, and multiple teams can try and fight over land cards! Those players fighting over land only...