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Moon Colony Bloodbath
Year
2025
Players
1–5
Play time
90min
Min age
14+
Weight
2.15
BGG rating
7.62
BGG rank
#449
Best with
4

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 7.0

Plays: 5

Board game

Moon Colony Bloodbath

Kolonia Księżycowa: Krwawa Jatka

Designed by Donald X. Vaccarino

MeepleMates notes for Moon Colony Bloodbath

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  • Moon Colony Bloodbath has been played 1 time on MeepleMates game days.
  • Best with 4 player according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 7.62 and BGG rank #449.
  • Groups use this page to connect Card Game, Science Fiction metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 1, 2, 3, 5.
Cities on the moon! This will be humanity's crowning achievement. At last, no longer bound to the Earth - the moon, a stepping stone to the stars. The rockets are loaded with supplies and colonists; the robots are programmed and ready. Everything has been planned down to the tiniest detail, and there is no chance whatsoever of failure. To the moon! Moon Colony Bloodbath is an engine-building, engine-losing tableau game, with a shared deck the players build that makes things happen, many of them bad things that kill people in your moon colony, but some positive, and some that let you build up. More specifically, each turn one card is revealed from the shared deck, which starts with four work cards, two trouble cards, and two twists. For work, each player takes an action of their choice simultaneously: mining for money, farming for food, research for cards, build a new building, or restock boxes on buildings. Twists vary from one game to the next. Trouble adds a new event card to the deck: hunger, paperwork, glitches, accidents, leaks, power failure - whatever can go wrong will go wrong, then whenever the deck is shuffled, you can prepare for all those events once again. Players can add cards to the shared deck, too, whether perks that are only for you or developments that affect all players. The game lasts until one player's moon colony has no people remaining, or until the players reach the bottom of the event deck. At that point, the player with the most survivors wins.

Categories

Card GameScience Fiction

Mechanics

Simultaneous Action SelectionVariable Phase OrderDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingEventsDelayed Purchase

Best with how many players

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

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Moderate in-game text(14 of 15 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Strategy Game Rank#287

Videos

YouTube3

Instructional3

BoardGameGeek8

Review1

Session2

Instructional1

Unboxing4

External data

Wikidata enrichment: 1 links · 2 facts · latest game data 07/26/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/23/2026.

Links

Facts

Publication date
2025
Publisher
Rio Grande Games