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Far Off Games  |  SKU: 1001944337

Xia: Legends of a Drift System

$119.95 CAD
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Description
Designer Cody Miller
Publisher Far Off Games
Players 3-5
Playtime 60-180 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up
Honors
Expansions Xia: Embers of a Forsaken Star 
Xia: Sellsword Mk II
Xia: Missions and Powers
Accessories Meeple Realty - XIA Station
Folded Space - Xia: Legends of a Drift System & Expansions
Xia 2K Coins

Xia: Legends of a Drift System is a 3-5 player sandbox style competitive space adventure. Each player starts as a lowly but hopeful captain of a small starship.

Players fly their ships about the system, completing a variety of missions, exploring new sectors and battling other ships. Navigating hazardous environments, players choose to mine, salvage, or trade valuable cargo. Captains vie with each other for Titles, riches, and most importantly Fame.

The most adaptive, risk taking, and creative players will excel. One captain will rise above the others, surpassing mortality by becoming Legend!

Customize: Each player begins the game by choosing and customizing a Tier 1 starship. Invest all your money in engines and be a rapid, yet fragile, explorer. Put all your credits into an uber missile and watch other players flee in terror. Get a small engine and save space and credits to invest in buying and selling cargo. Or create a well rounded ship, ready for anything. In Xia, the choice is always yours.

Adapt: The goal of Xia is to become the most famous captain. Completing missions, besting ships in combat, purchasing higher tier ships, selling Cargo Cubes and claiming Titles are all ways that players can earn Fame Points. The best pilots will adapt to their surroundings, making snap judgments and changing plans on-the-fly. If you can think on your feet, you'll do well in Xia!

Sandbox: The real fun of Xia is that each game will be different. There is no set direction of play, players may choose to be peaceful traders, fierce pirates, workers, miners, opportunists, etc. The game board is randomly laid out and explored each time you play. Players might choose not to explore at all, creating a tiny arena for swift and deadly combat, or explore all 19 sectors and have a large play-scape to exploit. It's up to you!

Customer Reviews

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Trevor Yarmovich

Awesome game.

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Ryan Krebs
Pulp Space Adventure in a Box

If you like to bring a bit of imagination into your boardgames, this is one of the best. Especially with the Embers expansion, this has a huge amount of potential player-made stories that will emerge with each play. You'll be talking about these moments long after the game is over!

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Joshua Williams
Does everything exceptionally

It doesn’t really invent anything, but all the mechanics are done excellently and mesh together perfectly. Pickup and drop off to sell. Dice rolls for combat. Search the galaxy for exploration tokens, and moving vie dice rolls and modifier. It doesn’t sound special, but when you combine those perfectly, while providing not notch production, and a game that lets you do want you want, you’re left with a special game that will have a spot in your collection for years to come.

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Frédéric Mazerolle
Great quality!

This boardgame remind me of Elite dangerous in the freedom you have. The quality of the miniature is great, the design is great the concept is awesome. The only downside I have with this game is the downtime when you are 4 player and one of then take is time to get the most of his ship. But that downside apply to most multiplayer boardgame.

If you don't know what this game is about just look some video on YouTube. It's an expansive game but worth every single penny. Just be aware that you will want the ember of forsaken star expansion with the base game.

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Gary Pressler
Privateer, Firefly, and then some

This is an amazing space sandbox game. Frankly, this is the game that Firefly the Board Game wishes it was. There are many paths to victory to try: exploration, trade, harvesting, pirating, bounty hunting, and more. The first expansion adds a lot, especially for solo play, but I had a lot of great games of Xia before that was released, so you don't need it right away. (Although looking up some of the rule changes that can be easily incorporated would improve the experience.) This seems destined to be my favorite game of all time.

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