Planetary Control!

Planetary Control! is a card game about alien factions competing to claim and hold six unclaimed worlds. You draw cards and build armies that match a planet’s faction crest, while using Spec Ops cards to protect your worlds or interfere with your opponents. You can play against the AI, against friends, or against both at the same time.

Claim and defend planets

Each of the six worlds is better suited to one of the galaxy’s six major races. To claim a planet, you build a hand of Army cards with the matching faction crest. To take a planet from another player, your hand’s army total must exceed the army already holding it.

Use Spec Ops

Special Operations cards can shift control of a planet by letting you draw more cards, steal cards from other players or take useful cards from the discard pile. Nukes can also be used against opponents. As planets change hands, their populations grow as members of previous armies lay down their arms and settle there.

Victory points

The game ends when the Cease Fire card appears as a surprise draw. Players total their Victory Points by adding the size of the army on each of their planets to its population. The player with the most points wins.