Star Wars: Destiny

The light against the dark in a strategic dice and card game

In dice and card game Star Wars: Destiny, two players face off against each other, one representing the light side, one the dark side, each striving to eliminate the opponent’s characters first.

The rules are relatively straightforward but have a strong deep-strategy element to them as well. The base version contains two characters on each side: Rey and Poe facing off against Kylo Ren and Captain Phasma. Along with your characters you have a deck of cards containing support, events and upgrades. You have shields to apply, limited resources to use and allimportant damage to inflict. The upgrades you apply to your characters can be massively helpful as they make them both more powerful and harder to eliminate, so using them well and early is paramount.

It’s important to use a balanced strategy of attack and defence, as we found that going on all-out attack left us vulnerable to surprise events from the opponent’s card deck, and once you lose a character (especially when playing only two characters per team) the going gets extremely tough. However, we also found being too cagey led to problems when it came to finally trying to damage the enemy. Finding the right order of your actions from the start is vital, as each turn — especially early on — has a limited number of actions. Star Wars: Destiny is fastpaced, and once you get the hang of the rules and basic strategy it has great replay value.