Game: Cosmolancers Date: January 4, 2026 Impression: A classic Reine Knizia game, a tight abstract game with a high quality theme. You are a journalist taking pictures of events in space. You place your cameras and once the board if filled score the row and column. It has a great tension between setting a target on yourself vs disrupt others. Easy to teach short game with great player interaction. Design Thoughts: The player interaction here is really interesting, as you are adding negative scores or blocking positive scores that often affect multiple people, rather then removing opponents pieces. I wonder can other games have similarly softer but direct interaction?