Race for the Galaxy: The Gathering Storm

Shuffle the goal tiles face down and select two "Most" (large) goals and four "First" (small) goals, remove the rest, and place the selected goals face-up in the center next to the 3‑VP goal chips (page 2).

A "Most" goal (5 VP) is held by whoever satisfies its condition by the greatest amount at the end of a phase; the first player to reach that greatest amount claims it, and a later player who exceeds that amount takes it away (they can be lost and returned to the center); ties leave the tile unclaimed or give tied non‑holders 3‑VP chips at game end (pages 3–4).

Place a match face die in the play‑mat space under your player action markers (both if two matches), using rules to shift left into the first matching phase space if needed; a match face means the robot will perform a matching action (use the top row on the mat) rather than just a response (use the bottom row) when resolving that phase (page 6).

If the robot has an unplaced 6‑cost counter and enough credit (2 on action, 3 on response) it places a 6‑cost counter and spends that credit instead of doing the normal Develop; otherwise the robot "flip to find" by revealing cards from its draw stack one at a time, discarding non‑matching cards, until it finds a development to place or the stack is exhausted (page 7).

By default the robot Settles by drawing and flipping to find a non‑military world (placing it if found); on response it needs positive credit to place, but some start‑world special mat counters (Epsilon Eridani, New Sparta, Alpha Centauri, etc.) change this to flip for military worlds, give extra draws, or remove the positive‑credit requirement (page 8).

Consume actions give VP chips and/or credit depending on which Consume faces occur (Trade increases credit + gives VP equal to economy size; 2x gives twice the economy VPs and increases economy by 1), Produce increases economy size, and special mats (Old Earth, Damaged Alien Factory) flip the robot’s "robot =" counter between $ and ×2 which changes the effect of Trade/2x on subsequent actions (page 9).