I have written before about the current re-emergence of dice games in gaming. It’s an interesting shift, since for the longest time luck was frowned upon by “real gamers.” They would turn their noses up at games with anything more random than a deck of cards, and looked for games that limited the effect luck could have on your strategy. This led to some really great games, many of which I quite like. It also led to Puerto Rico (the apotheosis of this movement) which I find boring and programmatic (although, I am definitely in the minority there..) Today’s game, Galaxy Truckers, is the antithesis of that idea, and I love it.

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