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Onward to Venus
Year
2014
Players
2–5
Play time
120min
Min age
13+
Weight
2.63
BGG rating
6.85
BGG rank
#3099
Best with
4

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 6.0

Board game

Onward to Venus

Dr Grordbort's Onward to Venus

Designed by Martin Wallace

MeepleMates notes for Onward to Venus

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  • Onward to Venus is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 4 player according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 6.85 and BGG rank #3099.
  • Groups use this page to connect Comic Book / Strip, Fighting, Science Fiction metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 3, 5.
Onward to Venus is based on the Doctor Grordbort graphic novels from writer/artist Greg Broadmore, with those books being a parody of sorts of the British Empire in the late 19th century, but instead of the race for Africa, we now have the exploitation of the Solar System, which is populated by various natives who resent the Earthling settlers. The game Onward to Venus takes lots of artwork from the books and mixes it together to create an empire-building game set in the Solar System. The core rules are fairly straightforward, and a game can be completed in 90 minutes. The game is played over three turns; in each turn you whizz around the planets and moons claiming tiles. The tiles grant you cards, allow you to build a factory or mine, let you hunt strange beasts, or simply earn you some money. Other tiles allow you to attack other players or add to the crisis level on the planet/moon in question. You have to be careful with crisis tiles as if you let too many build up, bad stuff - Martian invasions, robot rebellions, space pirates, etc. - starts happening.

Categories

Comic Book / StripFightingScience FictionSpace ExplorationTransportation

Mechanics

End Game BonusesHand ManagementVariable Set-upIncomeSudden Death EndingArea Majority / InfluenceDice RollingTurn Order: Claim ActionMovement PointsPoint to Point MovementEventsStat Check Resolution

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Not rec.
3
Recommended
4
Best
5
Recommended
5+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Some necessary text - easily memorized(6 of 11 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Strategy Game Rank#1440

Videos

BoardGameGeek11

Review6

Session2

Interview1

Other2

External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/23/2026.

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