The goal of the game is to score the most points by collecting particular sets of heavenly bodies on sky tiles. If it were a smaller box, I’d also be more likely to take the game with me when traveling, but as it is I’d have to pull it out of the box. One of my friends, upon seeing the contents, said “that box is an insult to my shelf space.” The box itself is actually quite nice-it has spot UV printing so that the stars and various design elements are shiny and stand out, but it’s so unnecessary for it to be this size. The plastic insert is so shallow that you expect there to be something under it. The Stargazer board is pretty, but really all you need is some way to have numbers from 0 to 9-the center of the board is not used at all. My only real complaint is that the game really could have fit in a much smaller package. It’s easy enough to correct, but seems a shame this wasn’t caught before printing. However, there is a typo on the Player Aid tiles for the nebula scoring, which is rather unfortunate: it should list bonuses for 2, 3, 4 and 5 colors, but instead it references 3, 4, 5, and 5. The cardboard components are pretty good quality-nothing spectacular or shoddy there-and the Player Aid tiles are coaster-sized cardboard rectangles rather than cards. The stardust tokens are very nice: tiny wooden 7-pointed stars.
There are nice background patterns and designs on the sky tiles and the stargazer board that are purely decorative, but add nicely to the astronomy theme. The components for StarFall are very pretty-there’s a blue/orange/white color palette for most of it, reflecting the box cover, that is fitting for a game about gazing at the night sky. 60 Stardust tokens (40 small white, 20 large orange).The theme and gameplay would be fine for players as young as 8, though younger players may not grasp the strategy or may not be able to calculate scores as quickly during the game. It retails for $29.99 and is available now. At the Royal Hinterland Observatory, you and your fellow astronomers compete to discover the best patterns of heavenly bodies in this “game of clever astronomy”: StarFall.Īt a glance: StarFall is a game by Scott Almes for 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and up, and takes about 30 minutes to play.
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