How to Play

The guided game, as text

This is the same lesson the app's HOW TO PLAY button walks you through, step by step. Verbs in CAPITALS are the buttons at the bottom of the screen.

  1. Tap the glowing centre planet, then tap SETTLE to settle it. The centre is always the strongest opening.

  2. Your rival settles right next to you.

Now add the third dimension

Every board is three layers deep — 27 planets. Lines of three run through the cube too.

  1. Settle another planet. Your rival will block any line you nearly finish.

  2. Your rival is thinking…

  3. Drag up or down to tilt the cube.

  4. Now drag left or right to spin it.

  5. Pick a glowing planet in another layer — each one lines up with a planet you already own.

  6. Finish a line of three to win.

Now with Galactic Events

☀️ A supernova and ☄️ a solar flare are live.

Tap an event planet and ACTIVATE it, or SETTLE any planet to claim it.

Play to the end — win or lose.

  1. Tap the glowing event planet and ACTIVATE it, then SETTLE any planet.

    SETTLE ends your turn — so activate FIRST.

  2. Boom. Events can destroy a settlement or a whole system.

  3. See the dead planets? Nothing can settle there until they recover.

  4. Events drop bonuses — the supernova left you a 🌿✨ SUPER GAIA.

    Open the bonus tray, pick it, tap a dead planet and DEPLOY it to heal everything around it.

  5. Healed! SETTLE one of the revived planets.

  6. Play to the end — win or lose. Tap ? any time for a reminder.

One more thing

Play with friends: two players pass-and-play, or three on the 4×4×4 board in any mix of humans and AIs — pick it on the start screen.

⚙ The gear has sound, SFX, haptics, sprites, labels, axes, the Next seat flip and planet colours.

That's how to play!