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2020 Ranked #6,408

One Small Step

This worker-placement engine-building game has space agencies gather resources, develop capabilities, and launch missions for the most victory points. Worker type changes each action’s effect, while successful launches improve options for both sides and accelerate the moon race.

Strategy Games Aviation / Flight Educational Modular Board Set Collection

Players

2-4

Play time

60-120 min

Age

10+

Complexity

3.18/5

Rating

7.05

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Lead the United States or Soviet Union Space Agency in this engine building, worker placement, race for the moon Eurogame. Play on a team of one or two players where each player on a team controls either the Engineer Workers or the Administrator Workers for their team.

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Lead the United States or Soviet Union Space Agency in this engine building, worker placement, race for the moon Eurogame. Play on a team of one or two players where each player on a team controls either the Engineer Workers or the Administrator Workers for their team. Coordinate your actions with your teammate on each of your turns to either place an Engineer or Administrator Worker on board actions to gather the games 9 different resources, draft development cards, increase your media coverage, recruit astronauts, upgrade resources, develop your space flight capability, or spend resources to launch humanity’s first unmanned and manned Missions into space. Which type of Worker you place changes the effect that a board action has. Each board action can only be used once each round, so placing a Worker does not only prevent your opponents from using the action but prevents your teammate from using the action's alternative effect with their workers. Gain the advantage in the media to place your worker first in a round or to gain a media bonus for special one time abilities and bonus resources. Score Victory Points by building cards you drafted or by successfully launching Missions into space. Every successful launch you have upgrades one of the board actions not only for your team but also your opponents. Successfully launch enough Manned Missions to achieve the first manned moon landing before your rivals, gaining you bonus Victory Points and ending the game. The team who has the most Victory Points at the end contributed the most to one of humanities greatest achievements and wins the game. One Small Step provides a fun learning experience about the space race that makes it perfect for a US history curriculum in the classroom and home school. —description from the publisher The Kickstarter Deluxe Edition included the expansions and may be found here One Small Step: Deluxe Edition.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
60–120 min
Age
10+
Complexity
3.2/5
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Credits

Designers

3
James DuMond Gunter Eickert James Schoch

Artists

1
Jarek Noco?

Publishers

1
Academy Games, Inc.

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