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Galactic Cruise

TK King, Dennis Northcott, Koltin Thompson · Kinson Key Games · 2025

A space tourism worker-placement game where you build luxury cruise routes between planets while managing passenger satisfaction, crew assignments, and ship upgrades. Won both the Golden Geek Heavy GOTY and Dice Tower GOTY for 2025.

Players

1–4

Time

150 min

Ages

14+

Difficulty

Heavy

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Why you'll like it

Won both major US GOTY awards for 2025
Worker placement with a fresh space tourism twist
Network building creates satisfying route puzzles
Strong solo mode
Deep strategy with high replay value

How it plays

Galactic Cruise is a heavy economic game about running a space-tourism company. Players build spaceships, plan itineraries, recruit passengers and launch luxury cruises to the planets.

On your turn you place a worker to take actions (and can bump someone else's worker, who gets a small bonus), launch a ship if it's built, crewed and supplied, or call a meeting to bring your workers home. Launched ships move along their routes each turn, earning bonuses in space and points on planet excursions. Launches and achievements fill a scoring track in three sections, and when the last section fills, the game ends.