Derelict is a cooperative sci-fi board game for 2-4 players.
Choose from five playable characters with unique strengths, weaknesses, and special abilities.
Dynamically reveal rooms, pick up valuable items, gather evidence, and overcome hazards as you map out the vessel.
Your mission? Reach the derelict’s engine room and recover its nuclear fuel source. Decide which squadmate will take custody of the delicate core before the treacherous return journey to your ship.
Battle (or do your best to evade) a wide-ranging cast of human, beast, and automaton enemies, protecting the plutonium core at all costs.
Make it back to your ship with the core (ideally with your full squad intact!) to notch up a win.
With randomized room layouts, dozens of discoverable items, and 35 possible endgame scenarios, you’re bound to see something new with every replay!
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Certain vibes have always been central to the Derelict experience: uncertainty, suspense, off-beat humor, the satisfaction of effective teamwork. But a board game can’t be built on vibes alone ...
What makes “ghost ship” sci-fi media so engaging, in my view, is the sense that, as you first arrive at the floating husk of the ship, you have no idea what to expect. Crew members driven mad? Encamped marauders? Rogue robots? Anything could happen ...
Like shipwrecks on the ocean floor, abandoned spacecraft adrift in the void have long activated the imaginations of both artists and audiences. Sci-fi video games such as Dead Space, Star Wars: Republic Commando, and Alien: Isolation have all employed “ghost ship” settings to oppressively eerie effect ...
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