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2025 Ranked #508

Moon Colony Bloodbath

An engine builder with a vicious twist: the deck remembers every disaster and your moon colony is designed to fall apart.

Strategy Games Deck, Bag, and Pool Building Mechanism: Tableau Building Simultaneous Action Selection Science Fiction

Players

1-5

Play time

45-90 min

Age

14+

Complexity

2.11/5

Rating

7.64

Easier to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 3.5/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.5/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.2/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.1/5

Deep strategy

Player control 3.6/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 10 min
Teach time About 20 min
Table footprint Standard
Campaign commitment No campaign
Recommended edition Moon Colony Bloodbath – English edition (2025)
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How it plays

How does it play?

Build a moon-colony engine while a shared deck fills with failures, shortages, and disasters that gradually dismantle everything you created.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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Simultaneously assign colonists to mine, farm, research, build, or restock, then resolve a shared deck containing productive work cards, damaging trouble, and disruptive twists. New developments and perks improve the colony, but trouble cards join the deck and return on later reshuffles, making food, power, and population increasingly fragile. When the colony finally collapses, the surviving player with the strongest legacy wins.

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Editions

Language and publisher variants currently recorded in the catalog.

Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Moon Colony Bloodbath – English edition (2025) 2025 English Rio Grande Games / US
Moon Colony Bloodbath – French edition (2026) 2026 French Rio Grande Games
Moon Colony Bloodbath – German edition (2026) 2026 German alea, Ravensburger AG
月面コロニー大惨事 – Japanese edition (2026) 2026 Japanese Hobby Japan
Moon Colony Bloodbath – Polish edition (2026) 2026 Polish Rebel Sp. z o.o.

Game and edition data

All specifications (28)

Play and group

Players
1–5
Play time
45–90 min
Age
14+
Complexity
2.1/5
App
None app Source
Player elimination
Yes Source
Downtime
Low Source

Practicalities

Setup time
About 10 min Source
Teach time
About 20 min Source
Teardown time
About 10 min Source
Table footprint
Standard Source

Campaign and continuity

Campaign commitment
No campaign Source
Group continuity
Flexible Source
Resettable
Fully Resettable Source
Save system
None; each colony’s rise and collapse is self-contained. Source
Scenarios
1.0000 scenarios Source
Consumable components
No consumable gameplay components. Source

Edition and product

Optional extras
Solo play is included; simultaneous work actions keep larger games moving. Source
Recommended edition
Moon Colony Bloodbath – English edition (2025) Source
Language
English
Region
US
Availability
Current
Edition type
Standard Source
Current edition
Yes Source
Box weight
2100 g Source
Box dimensions
29.5 × 29.5 × 7.5 cm Source
Consumable components
None. Source
Compatibility
Standalone Game. Source
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Donald X. Vaccarino

Artists

1
Franz Vohwinkel

Publishers

6
Rio Grande Games alea Hobby Japan Ravensburger AG Rebel Sp. z o.o. Transludis

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