Renegade Game Studios had great success with 2020’s The Search for Planet X from designers Matthew O’Malley and Ben Rosset, who then brought the search down to Earth with 2023’s The Search for Lost Species, but now Renegade is looking to the skies again thanks to The Search for UAPS from designer Ted Alspach, with this August 2024 release being co-publisher with Alspach’s Bézier Games.
Here’s an overview of this 1-5 player design:
The Search for UAPS is a game about this real-world search. You are astronomy enthusiasts, and you’ve recently seen something in your evening stargazing that you can’t explain. Using your telescope, camera, and computer research, you’re trying to track down this Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) to help the global scientific community gain a better understanding of what’s out there. While UAPs have been spotted all over the world, you’ll be focusing on the edge of space, where it is possible that these objects might be.
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Deduction fans will enjoy new gameplay elements such as variable quantities of objects, analyzing satellites, and major new twists, such as rotating orbits that result in continually changing placement and adjacency. Objects can be next to something, above it, below it, in the same quadrant from it, or even directly across from it. As the Earth rotates, the options continue to expand! Search for and take pictures of satellites, the International Space Station, or the Hubble Telescope to help you track down mysterious UAPs!
