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LeeC:
I've been playing Stellaris lately... well, not playing so much as creating empires on create custom and then saving them so they can spawn in game as NPC factions.  So Far I've made:

From Dune:
The Atreides
The Harkonnen
The Corrino
The Spacing Guild (Mega Corporation)
The Fremen
The Synchronized Worlds

From Warhammer 40K
The Eldar Empire
The T'au Empire
Ork WAAAGH!!! (Barbarian Despoilers)

Star Wars:
The Sith Empire
The Galactic Republic (Clone Armies)
Confederation of Independent States
The Mandalorian Marauders

War of the Worlds:
Martian League

Red Faction:
Red Faction

Mass Effect:
The Geth Consciousness

Wing Commander:
The Kilrathi Empire

Norse Mythology:
Svartalfheim Empire (Dwarves)
Alfheim Alliance (Light Elves)
Dokkalfa Hegemony (Dark Elves)
Galactic Jotunn Sovereignty (Mountain Giants)
Empire of Hel (Helheim, reanimator Necroid empire)

I also made a space French Empire based on Napoleonic France called the Froad Empire and yes I am using frog avatars for them (I got bored of so many human avatar empires). I also created a Megacorporation called RA Tech and they're loosely based on Ancient Egyptian gods and use Falcon humanoids as their avatars. I also made an Angelic looking civilization (they look like goat people but the horns connect in a halo like effect) that lives on a ring world and a Satyr civilization that reveres the Celtic god Cernunnos.

Thrillho:
Just started the Outer Worlds. It is incredible.

cesium133:
I've been playing Freeways. A pretty simple game (you're given a set of highways that need to be connected, and you have to design a junction that won't get jammed with traffic).

LeeC:
So the "Board Games" thread is 7 years defunct, so I think it may be appropriate to just post here (games and more games) instead of an extreme threadcromancey (mods feel free to move it if it is your desire).

Tonight I played the board game "Alien: Fate of the Nostromo" with my wife. Its a 1-5 player co-op game where you play as the crew members of the Nostromo (each with their own special ability) and deal with the Alien from the film. You run around the ship, collecting scrap, crafting items, and completing objectives while avoiding the Alien and
(click to show/hide) Ash the Android if you play with his optional rules, which we did. The alien moves at the end of every player's turn and there are encounter tokens throughout the ship where he can just teleport depending on whats on the other side of the token.  After all objectives have been complete, you and your crew have to complete a random "final mission" card to win the game. All objectives and final mission cards are randomly drawn cards, making every game a different experience. If you and your crew lose all your morale (there's a morale counter that ticks down every time you come face to face with the alien, Jonesy the Cat, or the spoiler), or start the ships self destruct and fail to complete the final mission before it ticks down to 0, you lose. My wife and I played as Ripley and Parker (our favorite characters from the film) and beat the game with only 2 morale left so we won by the skin of our teeth, and the final objective was probably the best outcome the crew could have faced in the movie.
(click to show/hide)No one died (except Kane of course), Alien and Ash destroyed, ship remains intact We're calling it the "super happy ending" final objective card. It was rather funny, the first objective we tried to complete looked like the easiest and quickest one to complete, until the alien moved around and foiled our plans causing it to be the last of the 3 objectives we had to complete. I also found a video on youtube that explains the game, which we watched before playing to help us set up the board and understand the rules. There were a few times where we still had to consult the rule sheet, and one or two times where we had to interpret the rules, but other than that it was fun and exciting. The rules and video makes it seem a bit complicated, but once you start playing, it moves fairly quickly and is easy to pick up. Set up time, watching the video, and playing the game took us about an hour and a half. I really liked that it was co-op and you have to work as a team rather than something competitive. We'd love to play it again and maybe invite a few other people over to make it more interesting (more layers means more objectives). If you like the movie and/or board games, its worth a look.

How to Play video



Edited for correcting spelling mistakes -LeeC

Farideh:
Sounds great! If you like tricky cooperative games, have a look at Pandemic.

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