Star Realms

Star Realms is a card-based deck building science-fiction tabletop game, designed by Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle and published in 2014 by Wise Wizard Games. The game started out as a Kickstarter campaign…

90 13 August 2014 Free to play

Card & Board Game Strategy Turn-based strategy (TBS) Science fiction

Star Realms is a card & board game developed by Wise Wizard Games, released 13 August 2014 on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play.

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What Star Realms is

Star Realms is a card & board game game developed by Wise Wizard Games and released in 2014. It is available on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Many centuries ago the human race began to colonize worlds other than Earth. An exploding population combined with an international hunger for the untapped resources of new worlds led to mankind’s rapid expansion beyond Earth’s solar system and out into the rest of the galaxy. The desirability of potential colony worlds varied widely based on location, natural resources, atmosphere, size, etc. Not surprisingly, this led to tensions and even outright conflict between interested parties, whether they were nations, corporations or other organizations. This led to the militarization of human space. Given the great distances involved and evolving political landscapes and interests, many colonial…

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How it plays

Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Star Realms holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for DX9 (shader model 2.0) capabilities; generally everything made since 2004 should work..

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What it launched against

Star Realms launched on 13 August 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux and Metro Redux. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Metro Redux.

Cheats and codes

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