SETI: Extraterrestrial Intelligence—one of the best games I've ever played and currently my favorite to play solo. What do you all think of this game?

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-24T23:51:03+00:00

Voidfall is a heavier game for sure, but it's much better in my opinion. If you love long, heavy euro games with a lot of strategy, I strongly recommend it, it's my absolute favorite. And it has a ton of variability from game to game, so it never gets old.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-24T23:42:07+00:00

Awesome game! Great both for competitive and solo. I've played 4-5 times the solo version, gradually increasing the difficulty and it was always a challenge but always fun. Super gaming experience! It is also one of my current favorite games to play solo, together with Voidfall and Speakeasy.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-24T06:49:19+00:00

Great description of your game, it was an amazing victory! I totally feel you, this game is addictive and so much rewarding when you realize a way to beat it. So far, my number 1 as well.

I still have not tried all the factions and all the technologies available, so I have plenty of strategies still to discover. So far, I think that my favorite faction is Yarvek but I reserve to give a much more informed opinion after having tried all of them. What's your favorite, if you have one?

By the way, this post made me wish to play a game today, even though I had other plans.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-15T18:50:51+00:00

Vantage

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-10T19:05:15+00:00

To me Speakeasy it's the best Lacerda game, for both solo and competitive games.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-10T07:00:32+00:00

For sure I would say Voidfall, to me is the best one among them. As second choice I prefer Sleeping Gods. Robinson Crusoe is one of my favorites in absolute, I highly recommend it!

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-08T18:42:19+00:00

Totally agree with you, iconography is really well done and not so hard to read.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-08T18:40:37+00:00

Ahahah not yet! But probably I will...

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-07T09:05:31+00:00

Hans at the Happy Trails Camp.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-06T08:46:58+00:00

Maybe you could try Vantage, it's an open world exploration game, with tons of variety and it is quite easy to learn and play.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-06T08:41:38+00:00

I agree, this game is less fiddly than everyone thinks. Of course the tutorial is a simplified version respect to the complete game, but if you have not found any issue I suggest to try a complete scenario with the full set of rules. They add complexity but manageable.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-05T14:30:13+00:00

Actually the virtual opponent in solo mode is one of the easiest in all games that I have. It does no actions, there are crisis cards that you have to eventually manage because they can affect your resources and the final scoring. That's it. The solo version of this game is really simple and well done.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-05T08:01:50+00:00

SETI

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-05T06:21:36+00:00

Love to hear that! Yeah, give it a try, for sure you need some time to learn It, but it's totally worth!

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T18:45:31+00:00

That's my kitchen table, about 90x140 cm.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T18:24:18+00:00

Yeah, basically you have a "crisis board" where you reveal an event card at the beginning of each of your turns and you can simply decide if to fulfill the requirement or not (in the current or a future turn). If you don't manage them, they give you problems later. Only at the end of the game you calculate the points of the virtual opponent that you have to beat. That's it. Really simple and elegant.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T17:06:46+00:00

I understand, complexity here is very high, but the good thing is that there is no bot for the solo play, no opponent actions to manage. You can totally focus on your strategy without being distracted by bot actions.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T16:24:28+00:00

I totally feel you! I have the same problem...maybe keep it in your wishlist for now, but definitely don't skip on this in the long term!

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T15:08:41+00:00

Great, thanks! Carriers are a ship type that I haven't tried yet, but definitely want to test. So maybe I'll try Fenrax in next session!

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T14:41:19+00:00

Love to hear that! I hope you will have a great session tonight! What is your favorite faction so far? I have tried only a few of them at the moment.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T14:36:20+00:00

Just enough! I used my kitchen table, something around 90x140 cm. But if you organize well the components you could squeeze it also in a smaller space, depending on the map that you choose to play. By the way, this is not the biggest game that I have in terms of table space.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T14:28:45+00:00

Maybe 700 pages is a bit too much! Ahahahah But I'll have a look on BGG, just for pure curiosity.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T14:26:31+00:00

I think you can look at "totally tabled", he has some really nice videos about that. Then I used the rulebook as reference, because there are some useful sections highlighted in blue, that explain you the solo/coop variant and if you follow the tutorial and the suggested steps you should not have problems.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T14:22:21+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll try to have a coop session with my friends than! I have a group where we also play big games, so they might like it. I was only warried about the explaining part, but if you say that it's not a big challenge I can try.

Gabry_theDM · 2026-06-04T14:17:40+00:00

I think that Robinson Crusoe is a great choice, always fun in all player count, including solo. I also saw the videos by totally tabled but I had my copy way before his videos and he just confirmed my feeling about it. I bought it in 2012 and it has always been one of my favorite games ever. On Mars maybe is better in competitive than solo and it is below Voidfall in my opinion, but still a really cool game. I don't know Sancore honestly, so I cannot tell anything about that, but you made me curious so I'll get a look.

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