What are the best space board games? Sometimes, board games must go where no game has gone before. Many of the world's biggest sci-fi franchises have dedicated (and delightful) board game adaptations, while other designers create unique solar systems of their own. We've journeyed through a lot of them to run up this guide to the best.
The genre regularly produces titles in contention for our list of the best board games, period - and, while strategy board games are a core part of this genre, we've included some choices more suited to fans of social deduction games.
One caveat: most of our choices here work best with multiple players - if you fancy a polished two-player experience, you may be better off exploring our galaxy of top-quality board games for couples.
Space, as Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy once said, is big. Really big. And so is the range of different board game types we've compiled guides to - check out our board games homepage for all our favorites, from household names, all the way through to the best sex board games for amorous players aged 18+.