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Lunarchitects

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2016 · 1-5 players · 60min · weight 2.63 · 506 ratings

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ID
178591
Name
Lunarchitects
Year
2016
Rank
4678
Min players
1
Max players
5
Playing time
60
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.625
Num weights
16
Bayes avg
5.8084
Average
7.21772
Users rated
506
Num owned
753
Wanting
71
Wishing
256
Num comments
190
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Grid MovementHexagon GridRondelSet CollectionTile PlacementTurn Order: Time TrackVariable Phase Order
Categories (2)
Science FictionTerritory Building
Description (1343 chars)

You and your fellow players are architects at Luna Mare, the architectural firm planning the first base on the moon. You will compete with your coworkers for access to building blueprints, astronauts, and construction resources- all to develop the most successful moonbase! Lunarchitects is a medium-weight strategy game that has players moving their pawns forward in a refilling circular queue to claim building blueprints. Players use the claimed blueprints to build personal moonbase plans in front of them. But instead of turns proceeding clockwise, the player furthest behind in the queue always takes the next turn. This makes blueprint choices a matter of quality over quantity. Blueprints from four stages are shuffled then stacked, with stages increasing in both cost and power. Each time all players complete a lap of the blueprint queue, scoring occurs- and the game ends after the fourth round of scoring. The player who has collected the most points is the winner, and their plans will guide the creation the first settlement on the moon! Unknown tile arrangement and variable scoring schemes (determined before the start) makes the game very replayable, as there is never a single most-powerful strategy. Inspired by the well-loved game Glen More, Lunarchitects is a family game for 1-5 players that plays in about an hour.

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