Gen7: A Crossroads Game cover
2018BGG rank #6,799

Gen7: A Crossroads Game

by Steve Nix

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Players3–4
Time60–90m
ComplexityMedium-Light
Age14+

About the game

What is Gen7: A Crossroads Game?

An international colony ship has left an exhausted Earth, headed for a distant planet in the Epsilon Eridani system. Thirteen generations will be born on this vessel before it reaches its destination, each generation a steward of the hopes and ideals of the human species. For six generations, everything has gone as planned.... Now, just as a new command team takes control of the ship, a terrible mystery emerges that will threaten the entire mission. The commanders of Gen7 are about to discover that everything is not as it seems, and the fate of the human species will hang on the choices they make. In the tradition of the award-winning Dead of Winter, Gen7: A Crossroads Game is a grand narrative game with multiple possibilities. The choices players make as they play will alter the direction of the story. Gen7 will constantly challenge its players with a variety of unique situations that force them to make difficult moral decisions. Will you compromise your integrity to ensure the safety of your crew? Will you value their lives over the safety of the mission? —description from the publisher

How it plays

Mechanics

Cooperative GameDice RollingModular BoardOpen DraftingVariable Player PowersVotingWorker PlacementWorker Placement with Dice WorkersWorker Placement, Different Worker Types

On the shelf

Categories

Science Fiction

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