“Star Realms” is a strategic board game that combines the thrill of deck-building games with the interactive combat style of collectible card games.

During the game, you buy new starships and bases with trade points, improving your deck. Once played, these starships and bases arm you with powerful abilities, grant trade points, and provide combat points to attack your opponent’s bases. You win by reducing your opponent’s Authority to zero.

Gameplay

In “Star Realms,” you start the game with a personal deck of cards representing your space armada. On your turn, you play cards from your hand to trade, fight, increase your Authority, and apply various effects.

• Trade points are needed to purchase powerful starships and bases.
• Combat points are needed to attack your opponent and their bases.
• Authority points represent your health. Each player starts the game with 50 Authority.

At the end of your turn, you discard all played starship cards and draw 5 new cards from your deck. If your deck runs out, shuffle your discard pile (along with any newly purchased cards) to form a new deck. The first player to reduce their opponent’s Authority to zero wins!

We recommend watching the video rules in the “Video” section and, if desired, exploring the illustrated PDF rules in the “Files” section.

One Last Note

Galu the Rooster recommends adding the legendary “Star Realms” box to your collection and beginning your journey into the deck-building board games genre.

We also recommend checking out the adventure deck-building board game — “Lost Ruins of Arnak”.