Description

Confluence Sidereal is a unique trading and negotiation game for 4 to 9 players. In the course of the game, each race must trade and negotiate with others to acquire the resource cubes needed to fund their economy and enable them to produce goods for the next round. The key to success is intrigue, deal-making and mutually beneficial agreements. Although technically a competitive game, Sidereal Confluence has a cooperative aspect during the trade phase, as no race has the ability to prosper alone. Trade well, and you'll develop technologies and colonize planets to form a civilization the galaxy envies.

Each player chooses one of nine unique and asymmetrical alien races that have come together to form a trade federation in their quadrant. Each race has its own deck of cards representing all the existing and future technologies it could pursue. Some races also have other cards related to the unique characteristics of their culture. These cards represent parts of the culture's economy and require spending a certain number of cubes to use them, resulting in more cubes, ships, and possibly victory points. Since each culture's output rarely matches their input, players must trade goods with each other to run their converters to create the resources they actually need to run their society as efficiently as possible and have an efficient economy. Almost everything is tradable, including settlements, ships, and all sorts of resources.

Each game turn contains an open trading phase in which all players can negotiate and execute deals for cubes, ships, colonies, and even the temporary use of technology! Players with sufficient resources can also research technologies, upgrade colonies, and spend resources on their race's special cards during this phase. Once this phase is over, all players simultaneously rotate their savings, spending resources to obtain more resources. Confluence follows, starting with players sharing newly researched technologies with all other races, then bidding to acquire new colonies and research teams. Researching a new technology awards many victory points for the prestige of helping galactic society advance. When a race builds a new technology, it is shared with all other races. Technologies can be enhanced when combined with other technologies.

The ultimate goal is to obtain victory points, which are acquired by seeking out new technologies.

120 min

14 years old and over

4-9 players