When it comes to board games, a frequent “Holy Grail” game (a term used to describe a game that someone has been hunting for, usually out of print and expensive) on many lists is Fantasy Flight Games’ Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game. But it looks like the search may be coming to an end for fans, as it was announced today that Ghost Galaxy has entered into an agreement with Universal and Fantasy Flight Games to publish a brand-new edition of this coveted title, coming to crowdfunding early next year.

First released back in 2008 and featuring imagery from the Sci-Fi Channel reboot, this social deduction/hidden traitor game wonderfully captured the tension from the show, where anyone could be a secret Cylon agent trying to thwart the single mission of the humans—to get home. Battlestar Galactica would go on to get three expansions, but almost a decade ago now, it all went out of print, and now prices on the secondary market for a full set (base game + expansions) could easily cost you more than a grand. Back in 2021, FFG did release a sort of reskinned version of BSG with Unfathomable, which replaced the Galactica with a boat and the Cylons with Lovecraftian horrors, which has seen success as well.

Details on this new edition are scant right now; all we have is that it’s a “new edition” that will feature “an updated design,” whatever that means, but I think the game is in safe hands. Overseeing this project will be Christian T.

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