Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Breach the airlock, blow the doors, board an enemy star ship, loot and plunder, complete your objectives and survive! Into the Black: Boarding Party is a semi-cooperative space pirate dungeon crawl with a hidden traitor element.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Grid Movement
Move pieces between adjacent spaces on a regular grid.
Action Queue
Place actions into an ordered queue that resolves now or on later turns.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Modular Board
Build the play area from interchangeable sections that vary between games.
Variable Player Powers
Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Read the full game description
Breach the airlock, blow the doors, board an enemy star ship, loot and plunder, complete your objectives and survive! Into the Black: Boarding Party is a semi-cooperative space pirate dungeon crawl with a hidden traitor element. You are a fierce band of space pirates who have boarded an enemy vessel, set on accomplishing your mission while each pirate has their own secret goal to fulfill. Explore and loot the vessel of its bounty, fend off a seemingly unending wave of enemy defenders and encounter a potentially lethal series of events around every corner; All this while keeping morale high as the clock ticks down to your potential capture. Be wary of the the traitor lurking among you, out for personal glory at the expense of the rest of the crew! Will you make it off the ship with all of your goals accomplished and your crew intact? Find out in Into the Black: Boarding Party!