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Space Bastards

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2011 · 2-5 players · 90min · weight 3.07 · 191 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
106631
Name
Space Bastards
Year
2011
Rank
20946
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
90
Min playtime
90
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
3.0714
Num weights
14
Bayes avg
5.51486
Average
5.7356
Users rated
191
Num owned
281
Wanting
10
Wishing
69
Num comments
80
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:35:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Area Majority / InfluenceArea MovementSimultaneous Action Selection
Categories (3)
HumorScience FictionWargame
Description (1275 chars)

Space Bastards is a science-fiction game in which players try to occupy several small planets with their five races of aliens, which have varied relationships between each other. Players try to manage and effectively use those aliens' relationships – whether to eat opponents, create new alien babies, trade goods, and so on – to their advantage for profit. Races are also determined by their size and shape, and planets are too small for everyone... Space Bastards is probably the first game with a relationship management system. Relationships – that is, defined relations between two races of aliens – are connected to the game actions of the players. Players use these relationships to occupy planets and have a majority there. Relationships are: Love (born new alien - Bastard), Hungry (eat enemy alien bastard - enemy is removed from the planet), War (shot enemy alien bastard which dead body will fill the planet), Trade, Friendship, Migration (traveling by spaceship), Mutation (transform to a different alien) and Political propaganda (changing the relationships). Space Bastards is a game in which you can enjoy and observe the picturesque aliens as small animals in an aquarium – while siccing them on your opponents, of course...

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.