To the Moon and beyond

We finally got Welcome to the Moon 🌕, the newest flip and write game in the ’Welcome To’ series. I remember we were quite taken aback when we saw its price tag at SPIEL21. 🙀 As it turned out, Welcome to the Moon has 8 different sheets you can play through in a campaign mode - that also has some story snippets in a campaign book. They also decided to go with dry-erase sheets, which is an excellent choice especially with all the different maps and a player count of 6. So for the price it’s like you get 8 different Welcome To games. 👍

We started out with Adventure 1, where we are trying to hastily leave Earth in our rockets 🌎🚀 as asteroids ☄️ are bombarding the planet. Players familiar with the Welcome To games don’t need much rules learning here. In Mission 1 the icons tell you which rows you can write your numbers into, and of course you have to fill rows in ascending order as usual. Another mechanic is that after filling rooms completely, you get to activate the bonuses they contain.

It’s all a race to cross out all of the rocket symbols to launch your rocket into space. This is basically an introductory mission with simpler mechanics. We found it fun nonetheless and are anxious to dive into Adventure 2. 🤩