Rex: Final Days of an Empire

In the dying days of an imperial reign, rival interstellar factions compete to control key districts within a vast, continent-sized city. Players command asymmetrical civilizations, marshal troops, and deploy leaders with differing abilities while negotiating, forming alliances, and betraying one another. Influence is gathered from held areas and spent to smuggle forces past an orbital blockade; military contests resolve when opposing forces meet and depend on committed troops and leader strength, with the possibility of secret traitors among commanders. A moving Sol fleet periodically bombards the map, forcing players to seek shielded locations or suffer devastation. Games mix diplomacy, tactical combat, hidden information, and variable faction powers for different strategic paths.

Players: 3–6 best 6
Playing time: 120–180 min
Age: 14+
Complexity: 3.3 / 5

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Design: Bill Eberle
Corey Konieczka
John Goodenough
Peter Olotka
Jack Kittredge
Christian T. Petersen
Art: Dallas Mehlhoff
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games

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Plays logged: 34
Players: 1h 32m
Average play: 39
In collections: 3
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from 13 Ludoya reviews

Mestremuten5.0
Rating: 2/5 Production value: 3/4 Is the game in my collection/Love to have?: 0/1
Garfield2.0
17 Don't think I will ever get 5-6 people to play a maybe 3-5 hours long game?! Blind bidding for strategy cards? And other random and take that stuff and I came to the conclusion that I would not enjoy such things.
Evan10.0
Rex is a carefully balanced 6p 'player negotiation' game. Theme is a big turn off, and the mechanics encourage bad moves. I see what they're trying to do here, but after reading the Dune rules, I don't think I can go back to playing Rex. ☆ Art, Iconography and components functional ☆ Clever or interesting mechanisms ☆ Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players ☆ Multiple plays stay interesting ☆ Low or mitigatable luck elements ★☆☆☆☆ Raw enjoyment