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Stellar Drift: Review

Stellar Drift: Review Introduction : Verb and Write games is a favourite mechanism for me, the more unique the verb is the more intrigued I am from Sonora being a flick and write game to an emergence of draft and writes like Boomerang and Draft and Write Records. Stellar Drift has brought a drastic change by creating a pull and write. On the base level players are pulling cubes from a bag each round determining the resources they can spend. As the game develops players will build their engine allowing for more cubes to be drawn per turn, more energy gained allowing for even more cubes or changes to the cubes colour, and since these are tangible resources players can even keep two aside for the next round. Players have a broken ship slowly drifting throughout space, players are using these resources to repair their ship by paying the right resources adjacent to a previously repaired location.  In typical style of these games, players will gain bonuses as they repair thei...