Dark Side of the Mine

Take on the role of a “stellar economic geologist” and strip mine an asteroid in deep space! Operate autonomous mining robots from the comfort of the mothership and mine the most ore before the asteroid deck is depleted.

Players issue orders to their robots, which move along the asteroid’s surface and earn points by mining locations. As the players remain in orbit on the mothership, part of the asteroid is obscured from view. A signal cannot be sent to the dark side of the asteroid, and any robot caught there on a player’s turn will power down and wait until communications can be restored. When the asteroid deck is depleted and all players have taken an equal number of turns, the game ends. The player with the most points is declared the winner.