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Smash Up

Year: 2012
Players: 2–4
Play time: 45min
Min age: 12+
Weight: 2.06
BGG rating: 6.69
BGG rank: #1315
Best with: 3

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 6.0

Michael Redlich
Rating: ★ 6.0

The "shufflebuilding" game Smash Up begins with a simple premise: take the 20-card decks of two factions, shuffle them into a deck of forty cards, then compete to crush more Bases than your opponents! Each faction involves a different gaming mechanism - Pirates move their minions around, Zombies bring back their cards from the discard pile, Dinosaurs have enormous power - and each combination of factions brings a different gaming experience. During the game, players compete to score points from Base cards. Players play minions to the bases, and you want to have the highest total power of minions at the base when it breaks. Sounds easy? Is it easy when an opponent's Alien-Ninja plays minions to your bases that destroy your minions? What happens when the Pirate-Dinosaur player plays Full Sail and frees King Rex to trample your minions into the ground, or when the Wizard-Zombies player uses their mystic power to create an outbreak, suddenly flooding minions to the base from their discard pile? Or if you were facing a Zombie-Dinosaur player instead who created an epidemic of massive beasts?!? With eight different factions, Smash Up includes dozens of combinations to try. Pirate-Aliens play different from Ninja-Aliens, for example. Which one will you use to crush your opponents? And did we mention the Dinosaurs have laser beams?

Categories

Card GameFantasyScience FictionHumorZombiesPirates

Mechanics

Hand ManagementVariable Player PowersVariable Set-upOpen DraftingArea Majority / InfluenceDeck ConstructionTake ThatCard Play Conflict ResolutionKill Steal

Best with how many players

1

Not rec.

2

Recommended

3

Best

4

Recommended

4+

Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Extensive use of text(56 of 78 votes)

Sub-rankings

Family Game Rank#478
Strategy Game Rank#940

Learn to play

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External data

Wikidata enrichment: 2 links · 2 facts · latest game data 06/20/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 06/20/2026.

Links

Official rulesyoutube.com
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Official ruleswikiboardgames.com
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Official rulesstore.steampowered.com
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Official rulessmashup-rulebook.alderac.com
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Official FAQsmashup.fandom.com
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Official erratasmashup-rulebook.alderac.com
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BGG fileboardgamegeek.com
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Fan referencesmashup.fandom.com
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Facts

Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group
Publisher: Iello