Build a dyson sphere using dice workers

Time for a quick overview of ☀️ Solar Sphere! Humanity has used up the energy from Earth and it’s time to venture out into space and become an intergalactic civilization. To be able to harvest enough energy, you have to build a dyson sphere around the sun!

It’s a dice worker placement game played over 6 rounds or until every Sphere Tile is built. Each round you have 3 dice to place, so only 18 actions in total, which makes the game tight. You can unlock 3 temporary dice during the game but even then it is only 21 actions. This is where the morale track comes in, which is a key aspect! Before you take an action you can optionally go down this track to the next wrench symbol(s) - for each symbol, you get some bonus actions like gaining resources.

There are 8 location cards you can visit with your dice, either to do their action or to place a satellite cube on them and amplify their action for the rest of the game. Placing the cube takes your whole turn/die so it is a big sacrifice to make!

The three most important locations let you:
🙋 Recruit crew that give you special abilities.
🚀 Fight resistance ships by placing cubes on them. Combat is resolved at the end of the round with a majority mechanic. Players gain points and morale for taking part but only the one with the most cubes takes the card itself.
☀️ Build the Dyson sphere by paying costs of sun tiles and gaining their bonuses. There is also a random scoring card that determines how you should build tiles.

Crew, resistance ships and sun tiles all show faction icons - you want to collect as many complete sets as possible for extra points.

Satellites are another central element of the game. You need them for many things: to amplify locations, attack resistance ships, modify your dice, go to occupied location cards or to build the sun tiles. You will keep using these, building new ones or refreshing them. You can also disassemble inactive ones to put them in a matrix, unlocking bonuses!

So while the dice workers are the first thing you notice about this game, I think it’s all about managing your morale track and satellites well.