Out In The Dark

Leaning more and more towards a dark science fiction game next. And it can’t all be because of Alien Day. I haven’t done something like that in over a decade.

(The Stars On Fire, using first edition Trinity rules for convenience with a DIY setting about hostile first contact for a divided humanity, about as disorganised as Battlestar Galactica 2004. I borrowed spacesuits from Halo, ships from EVE Online, and the aliens from Primeval.)

And there have been quite a few games like that released in the last few years, not least Alien itself. (Which I would consider running face-to-face, after avoiding doing it online.)

Boxy grey spaceships, colony planets with constant bad weather, political and corporate star systems, projectile weapons...