A board game about humanity over-relying on AI is currently being sold on Amazon with photos that may well have been generated by AI, and the designer wants nothing to do with them. Wargamer reported on 6 May that Amazon's product listing for Moon Colony Bloodbath shows components, including a board, miniatures, and hex tiles, that simply don't exist in the actual game.
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Set up your group for freeIf you've not seen it before, Moon Colony Bloodbath is a card-only shared deck-builder from Donald X. Vaccarino, the designer of Dominion. There is no board. There are no minis. Players take on rival corporations colonising the moon, building a shared deck that throws disasters and the occasional mercy at everyone, and trying to keep more colonists alive than their rivals. It came out via Rio Grande Games in 2025 to broadly positive reviews, including a fond write-up at Space-Biff! for its anti-engine-builder structure.
Vaccarino flatly disowned the images on BoardGameGeek back in April, writing, "it's not a leak, not an old prototype, and doesn't come from me or RGG in any way." Reviewer Mollie Russell pointed out the obvious irony: a game with a satirical bent about humanity sleepwalking into AI dependence is being misrepresented on the world's biggest storefront by what look like AI-generated mock-ups. Wargamer says it has asked both Amazon and Rio Grande Games where the images came from. Neither has responded as of publication.
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Start organising for freeIt's a small story with a bigger lesson for buyers: if you're picking up a game blind on Amazon and the photos look suspiciously slick, check BGG or the publisher's site before you click buy. For Moon Colony Bloodbath itself, the actual game is genuinely worth tracking down, just not via those listing photos.
Sources: Wargamer | Rio Grande Games | Space-Biff!
