(This summary help section is in beta and may be incomplete in areas -- feel free to help expand it!)

Goal and Summary

The goal of Galactic Cruise is to get the most points during the game. You can do this from connecting your campus network, building your ship, visiting cruise destinations, and more!

On your turn, you'll usually be taking two actions at a campus building (or one nearby) to help prepare for your galactic cruise. Once you're ready, you can liftoff and visit stops on your cruise schedule for points and resource while you prepare for the next one.

After a certain number of launches and achievements among all players, the game will end with players finishing up, and then most points wins!

Starting the game

Each player will start by picking some blueprints and also put out their gear between two buildings. (If this is your first game, feel free to just pick something!)

Turn Structure

Advance on a cruise

Only applicable if you already launched a ship. (This step usually only happens later in the game.)

Move your ship one day forward on the schedule, and do that day:

Day in Space

If you move to a space symbol, multiply the number of orange guests on the cruise times the number of orange tags on your cruise ship components, then receive the orange guest bonus that many times. (Guest bonuses are listed top right corner of the campus map.) Repeat for purple and teal guests.

Day at Destination

If you land on a orange, purple, or teal space (a planet), you can first optionally deliver your upgrade token to get one of three upgrades at the destination.

You must pay ads for each guest you want to score - 1 ad for each that matches the destination color, and 2 ads for each that doesn't. Each one you pay for scores 3 points, plus 1 for each upgrade token at that destination.

Return to Earth

On last day on each schedule, guests return to earth (back to the supply), cruise is returned to discard, pilot is return to break room (gets a funding bonus) and ship can be used again.

(Option 1) Taking two actions

Pick a worker to send to one of the six stations. If it already has another player's worker, you can bump it back to that player, giving them a funding bonus. (You can't bump your own worker though, unless you unlock such upgrade)

You can take two actions (same or different) as follows

• An action at your building
• An action at an adjacent building connected by a gear of yours.
• An action at an adjacent building connected by at least one opponent's gear, if you pay 0-2 Money to every opponent that has a gear. (Cost depends on reputation)

See the Actions section below for more info on the actions.

(Option 2) Call a meeting

The call a meeting option lets you get access to your workers again, they return to break room gaining a funding bonus each. Also you can perform an action to do next to one of your gears.

(Option 3) Launch your ship

If you have fulfilled all the requirements, you can launch your ship instead of taking actions or calling a meeting. At the start of the next several turns, you can do the "Advance" part above. Note that it will add a cube to the progress track, which moves everyone closer to the end of game.

See the Launching your Ship section below for more info

(End Of Turn Extra) Check for achievements

On the bottom left of the board, there are three achievements for this game. If you have fulfilled the criteria, you move a cube to the progress track and uncover a "wing", which moves everyone closer to the end of game.

Actions

Get Resources / Ads

You'll need resources if you want to launch your ship:

• 1 food for each guest or pilot on the ship
• 1 oxygen for each ship segment on the ship
• 1 fuel for each fuel on the chosen schedule

Keep in mind your resource storage (with the gears) limits how many food/oxygen/fuel you can have at one time, but there is no limit to ads.

Action - Buy resources and ads

May pay 1 money for 2 resources from the supply May pay 1 money for 2 ads from the supply

Action - Get for free from the silo

May take 3 resources (if available) from the company storehouse (called the silo)

Action - Replenish one type of good in the silo

Discard an agenda in hand to move tracker to max level for one good, gaining 1 money per step moved. Also gain 1 reputation.

Build a ship

Each two adjacent ship segments can hold one guest -- for example, a ship with 3 segments can hold 2 guests. Keep in mind the cockpit/engine don't count as segments.

A ship will need at least one guest (thus at least two segments) to launch.

Action - Get a new ship

Pick any of the cockpit/engine sets. (Limit 3 ships per player.)

The engine displays the immediate bonus when bought, and the cockpit displays the launch and endgame bonus. Keep in mind, a player will lose 5 points for any ship that wasn't ever launched.

Action - Get Blueprints

Get up to two blueprints from the supply -- the market refreshes after completing this action. Getting blueprints is typically free, but you can pay an extra cost (plus the build cost) to build them immediately to your ship.

Action - Build ship segments

Pay the build cost to build them to your ship. (They're worth points at the end of the game.)

Schedule/advertise a cruise

You must pick the cruise schedule you want to go on as a separate action before launching your ship, though you don't have to advertise this schedule in advance.

Action - Schedule a cruise

Move your Consultant to a cruise you want to use when you launch. Note you can't move this once scheduled and you can only have one cruise scheduled at a time.

You also get a funding bonus and flip that token over. You can't use that exact funding bonus anymore -- the token will get moved when you launch your ship.

Action - Advertise a cruise

You can advertise any cruise for which you can pay the ad cost, including ones you haven't scheduled. You can move up to two guests from the right side, paying their ad cost to under the cruise schedule. Each guest moved this way scores you 1 money per destination on the cruise, plus an additional reputation if the guest's color matches a day on the cruise.

Upgrades and improvements

Action - Buy a Development (Gears)

To get a technology or improve your network, pay the cost of the leftmost gear in the food, oxygen, or fuel rows -- you can pay for it in money or with the resource the gear started on (money/food for gears in the food row, and so on).

You can move the gear to the network, increasing the action combinations you can do. Or, you can move it below a technology, giving a passive bonus for the game. (Players can also pay 0-2 money to temporarily activate a technology, depending on their reputation.)

At end of game, each column emptied of its gears will score points.

Action - Hire an expert worker

You can buy one of two expert workers from your board -- each costs 12 Money but can be discounted. The left expert worker costs 3 less for every one-time-use (black) upgrade token you've used. The right expert worker costs 2 less for every gear you've moved off the food or oxygen rows.

Expert workers have an additional bonus that normal workers don't -- see the between the buildings on the main board. Also, because you gain the worker to your Break Room, you get also funding bonus as part of the action.

Action - Get agenda cards

You can get up to two agenda cards from the display, or spend a reputation to get the one discarded (as long as you didn't play it this turn). Keep in mind the display doesn't refill automatically.

Action - Refill agenda cards

First, gain each bonus from the empty card slots in the agenda display. Then discard all remaining agenda cards, and refill the empty spaces in the display.

Launching your ship

Choose a pilot

Pick a worker from the Break Room to serve as a pilot for the ship

Add guests to the ship

Each guest must be in its own cabin between two ship segments. (This means your ship must have at least two segments.)

Take presold (advertised) guests from the below the schedule, or pay ads to get them from the right side/ supply. Any presold guest you don't take will cost you 2 reputation.

Pay resources

Pay resources (1 food per guest/ pilot, 1 oxygen per ship segment, 1 fuel per fuel on the schedule).

Start the cruise

Some parts of launch are automated online, such as adding a cube to the progress track, scoring your cockpit, and moving your upgrade token onto the ship (to be delivered to a destination).

End of game

When the progress track is filled up for all three years, finish out the round (equal turns), then all players get an extra turn. Also, each player gets an extra "continue your cruise" action after this extra turn. At this point, additional end of game points are scored (such as scoring ships and leftover items), and most points wins!

References

It is actually best to read the real rule book https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/293417/galactic-cruise-training-manual-rulebook.

There is also FAQ on BGG for unclear moments https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/GalacticCruise_FAQ

BGA Limitations and special rules

Resolve Delayed Bump

If your workers were bumped off their stations you can get their Funding bonus before start of your turn (not DURING opponent's turn)

Rachel's choices

Rachel (solo "Automa") does not use numbering system on the cards, she uses BGA random number generator

Anytime actions

Not all actions can be performed anytime. During early testing a lot of player got into dead lock situation where they played actions that reveal some information which blocks Undo but could not complete other actions (such as payment). So we blocked ability to play such actions in the middle of payment or other operations that can fail.

Agenda cards with pre-requisites

In real game you can stop game anytime to play agenda card, but BGA game mostly automated, to improve the flow instead of letting you play agenda at any time we inject the game "stops" at the moment that you can possible play that agenda card. Since there is not much choice at what to do at these moments - the game just asks if you want to play specific agenda card. As a consequence - you cannot play most of agenda card yourself, it can only be done via such prompt.

Another limitation - If agenda has a prerequisite of a specific action (such as build segments), it has to be in your hand when you select the action otherwise it won't trigger (i.e. if you pick this card during the action because of some other effects).

Agenda: COLLABORATION

1) You can play it at any time to "activate" any discovered technology (such as it has at least one gear) 2) Gear can be your own 3) You get money == number of gears and its considered activated till end of turn (as oppose to rules that imply it one time deal)

Original text: You may use any Technology once on your turn without paying the players who have a [Development] on it. Gain [1 Money] for each [Development] on that Technology.

Bga "text": You may activate any invented technology without paying for developments to be used until end of your turn. Gain [1 Money] for each [Development] on that Technology.

Agenda: STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP

The text and graphics were adjusted to this rule:

"Spend 1/2/3 [Reputation] to gain 3/6/9 [Money]"