We're Doomed! | Party Game | 4-10 Players

Great party game, and the time limit helps keep you from being stuck for too long if the cards aren’t in your favour for that round

This is my favorite game. Constrained time, up to 10 people, endlessly replayable. Buy it, you won't be disappointed.

I played this five or six times at a Pop-Up Gen Con location. It's an excellent party game for 4-10 players, a (15-minute) hourglass counts down to the End, and I had a blast -- I say this having never successfully gotten a seat off-planet, and indeed I was nuked (eliminated from the game) twice.

(I deserved it both times.)

There were two main things about this game that I loved. First, sure, the "best strategy" is for everyone to make resources and throw them at the rocket-builders each turn. But each type of country has its own strengths, and there's a lot of joy to be found in balancing your personal strategic strengths against the "build the rocket" goal. And since play goes by rounds, your strategies will have to shift in reaction to others moving against you ... Or threatening to overturn the rocket-building efforts all together!

Event Cards, played at the end of each round, can dramatically alter the nature of the game. Your win conditions or allegiances might change. Your country type might shift. Or you might have to get a complicated task done quickly, in real time, to allow others to resume building the rocket. A lot of Event cards waste time in hilarious and nerve-wracking ways, and their effects stack.

I highly recommend this game as a short game with a lot of replayability, and plan to purchase a copy of my own in short order.