Alien: El Destino del Nostromo is a board game in which you play as members of the Nostromo crew: Ripley, Lambert, Parker, Brett or Dallas and is available for sale from Ravensburger. During the game you will have to perform different actions to achieve different objectives and, obviously, the alien will not make things easy for you. This wonderful cooperative board game featuring miniatures designed by Sott Rogers and developed by Steve Warner, will put players in the middle of the hell and chaos that breaks out on the USCSS Nostromo, the same ship from the classic late 1970s film.

Alien: El Destino del Nostromo It’s a family game, but Ripley doesn’t feel the same way

AND Alien hides in the corridors of the merchant ship Nostromo and wants to hunt you and the other crew members. As a team, better than alone, because in the infinite universe your screams cannot be heard. We will therefore have to work as a team to move around the ship, collect the necessary elements and build objects to survive. All this with some fantastic miniature figures that will delight fans of the saga. An alien is hiding in every corner and the feeling of being watched has been achieved in this game. And remember: in space no one can hear your screams.

Each turn has two phases. In the crew action phase, players navigate the corridors of the Boatswaincollect scrap metal, craft items, trade scrap metal and items with other participants, and use items and their special abilities. In the encounter phase, crew members draw and resolve an encounter card. The alien could be lurking around every corner. And that’s the beauty of the game: if you don’t use your characters’ abilities correctly, you’re in more danger than you imagine.

Once players achieve their initial objectives, they face one of five final missions, each with a unique set of requirements. The alien’s potential victims must simultaneously fulfill the requirements of the final mission to win the game. It seems like a complex mechanic but it isn’t, even in single player mode (we don’t recommend it, loneliness in space is even more terrifying). As soon as you acquire character skills, you can try to achieve objectives.

The best way to play Alien: El Destino del Nostromo is with the soundtrack playing in the background, the lights off, with candles or dim lights and on a table where you can see each other’s faces, as this will recreate the feeling of angst from the film Alien, The Eighth Passenger” is a further incentive.

A luxury finish and the spirit of the saga is evident

An excellent quality board, figures of the characters and pieces, good weight cards and die-cuts, make this game very accessible and entirely in Spanish. The components of the game are:

• 1 Nostromo tablero
• 5 summary letters
• 5 crew panels
• 5 crew miniatures
• 1 alien miniature
• 1 morale token
• 21 encounter cards
• 10 objective cards
• 5 final mission cards
• 20 discard tokens
• 12 item tokens
• 6 Coolant Bottle Tokens
• 13 ambush tokens
• 1 self-destruct token
• 4 countdown tokens
• 1 ash figure

Players can also introduce the science officer Ash for a more complex game. Ash It moves around the ship, removing trash and causing the crew to lose morale. But this is only possible if you want to level up the game and make it more challenging, as it starts in the infirmary, and if you’ve seen the movie, you already know what happens.

Whenever Ash moves, using the shortest path to move him to the nearest room or hallway with scrap metal or a crew member is the way to make it harder for him to survive, if possible. The point is that Ash removes scrap wherever he finds it and this significantly delays the creation of gadgets to survive. This is where the challenge of adding Ash lies and an incentive to extend the life of the game.

In short, we are faced with a game that has all the spirit of “Alien: The Eighth Passenger”, and which if you overlap with it (as we did), gives you the possibility of reliving those events that made that film the beginning of a saga. All with an excellent ending and with the incentive to further complicate the existence of the crew of a ship destined to become legendary. Recommended for ages 10 and up, adults will have an extra retro style with Ash. All this with Ripley at the helm.