It’s good to have professional goals in life.
One of mine is to eventually review every licensed “Alien” board game ever released.
Honestly, it’s a more challenging proposition than you might think.
Depending on how wide you cast the net, you might include out-of-print games like the 1997 “Aliens Predator Customizable Card Game” or 2015’s “Alien vs Predator: The Hunt Begins.” Even the first “Alien” board game — a 1979 Kenner release inexplicably positioned for ages seven and up — is hard to find outside of a drunken eBay splurge.Thankfully, there’s the (somewhat defunct) Upper Deck Entertainment license for those of us on a budget.
I’ve previously sung the praises of “Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game,” which builds on the popular Legendary system to create fun adaptations of each “Alien” movie.
But just as compelling is “Aliens: Bug Hunt,” a 2020 release from designer Ryan Miller that combines dungeon crawler and tower…
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