Nova: Conflict in the last frontier

NOVA is a card-based 4x space strategy game in which players lead rival space civilizations to achieve supremacy in a region of space. To do so, they must employ different strategies. The game features an original card game system with three decks (military, civilian and diplomatic) that allows players to customize their style of play. The rules cover all the typical aspects of a 4x game: exploration, expansion, colonization, technological advances, diplomacy ... and include a solo game system that is also integrated into multiplayer games. Although the mechanics are card-based, it has wargame elements and, above all, many ideas that make it unique not only in its genre. The rules for playing solo games are well integrated into the multiplayer scenarios. They are combined in a way that creates a lot of variability within the same scenario. The scenario system is also elastic, even allowing players to design their own, set in their favorite Sci-Fi universes. This edition provides four solo scenarios (one of which is introductory), one two-player scenario, and a sixth 3 - 4 player scenario. —description from the designer