Alien Artifacts

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Alien Artifacts, a sci-fi 4X-style strategy card game designed by Marcin Senior Ropka and Viola Kijowska, and published by Portal Games. In this game, players manage an interstellar faction, building a deck engine to command starships, research advanced alien technology, and harvest resource-dense planets. It's highly regarded for condensing a deep, massive empire-building "4X" (Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate) experience into a fast-paced game that plays in under an hour.