Star Realms Legacy - Rise Of An Empire Review

Star Realms: Rise of Empire is a new standalone pre-quel to the popular Star Realm series game with 141 cards, and a 12-game legacy scenario campaign. Rise of Empire introduces three brand new factions: the Consortium, the Scavengers, and the Kingdom. Rise of Empire will take players on an epic adventure over the course of 12 scenarios where players will permanently alter the market deck cards while tracking their battle wins and losses. Players will compete to achieve various objectives, earning them Campaign Victory Points and unlocking the secrets of the worlds around them. Rise of Empire can be played stand-alone or combined with all previous Star Realms content after you’ve finished the campaign.

TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Background & Thoughts
0:02:12 - Overview
0:06:45 - Infinite Replayability Deck
0:08:50 - Review
0:11:05 - Recommendations

5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.

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[kumanight]

SR is fine, I never felt the need to own more than the base deck. I'm sure there are die hard fans who are really happy for this.

[Teachermook]

I really like the idea they advertise of a legacy add on for the base legacy game that allows a reset to play the whole story all over again.

[GrimLocke]

I remember enjoying the iOS app several years ago, but it's not something I'm raring to jump on. But, it's definitely something I have my eye on.

[disguisedlizard]

I wonder and hope if this expansion will come out for the app star realms

[zakkoehler]

No access to the PM without a Full Tier Pledge unfortunately

[madebyhman]

I will chime in and say that shards of infinity killed both star realms and hero realms for me. Shards even has a campaign mode where your starting deck changes between games. Granted, this campaign mode is not as ambitious as the one here in star realms rise of the empire, but it’s all the game needs.

[sidneyleejohnson]

"Star Realms is a game I would rate 4/5"...filter's reviews on star Realms and observes the original rating 4 with a current rating of 3... uh..so how long is the 4 rating going to stick on Rise of an Empire? How did your rating fall from 4 to 3 if you are so certain now that the rating was still a 4? Ugh these subscribers are killing me... lol.

[tonybowers]

I enjoy playing the base SR app on my phone, often when I’m waiting, etc.

[mikedunn]

If it’s not actually a review of final product, why label it as such?

[Alphanva]

The Quack, slip up was funny…is Jesse doing some sort of mind control manipulation. lol

[adriangutierrez]

I do not understand why this company is running a kickstarter for this, as it is not the first game they are making. They have the profits to be able to pay for this and release it. This is a greedy move. I love star realms but won't be supporting this kickstarter (maybe will buy the retail release later on).

[mabos]

Hate star realms, love hero realms.
I know that they are same games but they are not.
First, the lack of theme in star realms bugs me a lot - recycle bots, space ships and space stations each card is one of those. Mehhh
So adding stickers won't change the fact that there is no theme to it.

Hero realms? Better game, campaign is decent, characters are unique, level up the abilities is amazing, you buy cards that are more themed : vampire and deamons, dragons and knights, ogers wolves etc it's more fun and unique.

Let's not even talk about the chatholo realms which is the most terrible realms game they offered.

So overall? Not hyped for the legacy train, in fact I've never played a legcay game in against this idea of ruining a game

[bushibayushi]

Shards of Infinity kills Star Realms for me. Bigger decision space, more interesting combos with mercenary cards and "power" level ;)

[vincentw]

Would never kickstart another game from these guys after the star realms foil deluxe debacle. No one has gotten them long overdue and all they had to do was print art they had with foil. It seems like the company runs a Kickstarter to finish paying production on a previous Kickstarter...like a Ponzi. Woe to the supporters of the last Kickstarter they run.

[sonyman]

looks very cool. But realy stickers =(

[DireMcCann]

Gah! German Adult content spam on a board game channel?!!? They know no bounds!

Thanks for the board game content! Been looking at this one at my FLGS