Beyond the Sun

In Beyond the Sun, you are a faction leader at the dawn of the Spacefaring Era, competing to be the dominant force in galactic exploration and development. The game challenges you to shape the future of humanity by researching technologies, expanding your economy, and colonizing distant star systems. The game unfolds over a variable number of rounds, ending when certain end-game achievements are collectively claimed by the players. The ultimate winner is the one with the most victory points, which you earn by advancing your technology tree, boosting your economy, controlling and colonizing systems, and completing a series of objectives and events throughout the game. On your turn, you move your action pawn to an empty space on the technology board and perform the corresponding action. Then, you enter the production phase, where you can generate ore, grow your population, or trade resources. Finally, if possible, you can claim one achievement. One of the coolest things is how you build your own technology tree. There are four levels of technology and four types (scientific, economic, military, commercial). Higher-level technologies need to match one of the types that lead into them, allowing you to create unique paths to increase your military strength, explore new habitable exoplanets, colonize them, supercharge your resource production, or even develop android tech to grow without relying on population. It's a game that gives you a lot of freedom to chart your own strategy and watch your civilization flourish among the stars!