How it’s played: Each player gets a basic starter ship and chooses one of eight characters. Options include Lando, Boba Fett, Jyn Erso, and even Doctor Aphra from the comics. Each has special skills that benefit different styles of play. (For instance, Han Solo provides a bonus to your ship’s speed, letting you complete missions faster.) The goal of the game is to gain Fame points, which you can earn in a variety of ways: collecting bounties, delivering illegal cargo, and more. As you make money from these jobs, you can upgrade your gear and even replace your starter ship with the famous Millennium Falcon, Slave I, and others. During each turn, a player can choose to move their ship between planets, purchase upgrades, and then do jobs, collect bounties, and so on. Jobs are games-within-the-game: multistep activities like heists or the infamous Kessel Run, requiring multiple rolls of the dice, with wins based on your character and crew’s skills. Although the game can run long in its standard first-to-10-points mode (especially with four players), we found that it can be equally fun with a set time limit. In that case, the winner is the person with the most Fame points when time expires.
