Moon Colony Bloodbath is an engine-building, engine-losing tableau game set on a moon colony where everything is planned in detail and nothing can possibly go wrong. Players build a shared deck that makes things happen, many of them bad things that kill people in your colony, some positive, and some that let you build up.

How It Plays

• Each turn one card is revealed from the shared deck, which starts with four work cards, two trouble cards and two twists
• On a work card, every player simultaneously chooses an action: mine for money, farm for food, research for cards, build a new building, or restock boxes on buildings
• Trouble cards add events such as hunger, paperwork, glitches, accidents, leaks and power failures, and you can prepare for them again each time the deck is shuffled
• Players can also add cards to the shared deck, either perks only for themselves or developments that affect everyone
• The game ends when one colony has no people left or the event deck runs out, and the player with the most survivors wins

Twists vary from one game to the next.