Under Falling Skies

Great dice placement mechanism with some incredible moments of sacrifice to make your next turns better.

get your atari 2600 dreams here. space invaders? galaga? under falling skies has that flavor with two giant scoops. great quality components, and a lot of content in a little box

Read some reviews and saw some playthroughs. This game provides a very enjoyable solo experience.

UFS is a incredible game with a lot of fun decision making and incredible quality parts. It's campaign was fun and had some great twists and turns in mechanics to make it interesting throughout. I originally was going to give it 4/5 because I don't think it's a perfect game but I also don't think there I anything quite like it (besides Galaga) so it fits its own hole in the board gaming community. Aka it's unique. So 5/5 Very Good and worth buying if you are a solo gamer. My only caviet is that I think the game mechanics get a little boring after 30-60mins of play. But when I need to roll some dice and kill some aliens, this is the game I'm pulling out.

This game is by far one of the best solo board games that’s quick, involves strategy, and is very fun to play. The theme is great and fits well with the dice placement mechanic of the game. The components themselves are good quality and and storing the game is very simple. This game has great replay value and is for sure staying in my collection. Great buy!

Lots of replayability and also features a campaign. The puzzle element is great.

Very nice solo game that has a good tension of the ships coming down as your allocate dice to enhance your play.

Game play is very quick and easy to understand. good variability You do need some space to lay out the board.

Great solo game. Challenging with ways to increase difficulty! Can't wait to dive into the campaign

If you're like me and you're looking for good solo options to fill the time between group play, this should probably be one of your first picks. It's a sort of dice/worker placement game, with a little bit of push your luck to it, and an efficiency puzzle. It looks like space invaders meet Independence Day, but while the theme is strong that's not really what the game plays like. Even with the dice, there isn't strictly speaking a lot of luck to it since you get rerolls and where you place the dice is just as important as the value you roll. This game is more of a puzzle. Where do you need to put the dice in order to position the alien ships so that you can shoot down multiple of them in one go, while still making sure you have time to research and gain energy, and you have to be careful about how you position the dice because they can't share columns so choosing to do one option will cut off your other options. What makes this game work is that everything is so tightly bound together, that every decision you make will have an effect on every other decision you could have made. I haven't found this to be a brain burner yet, at least on the easier difficulties, because ultimately while there are bad options and slightly worse options and good options and perfect options, it is more about tradeoffs so you'll find yourself saying maybe this isn't the ideal choice, but it's a good choice at least and that may be enough to win the game. At higher difficulties, you will probably have to make ideal decisions every time to win if that's your thing. If not, then just don't play the higher difficulties, I know I probably won't. Aside from gameplay, at the end of the day they packed a lot in this box for a surprisingly low price. There's a ton of extra campaign stuff that you may or may not choose to use including different abilities for your cities you defend, characters, etc. This game may not be for everyone, but if you like solo gaming, you don't mind a sort of euro-y efficiency puzzle, but you also like chucking dice and blowing stuff up, this game will probably worth it for you.