Every so often a crowdfunding page appears with a designer credit that makes euro fans sit up, and Galileo's Truth has one. This competitive strategy game for one to four players comes from Virginio Gigli and Flaminia Brasini, the Italian pair behind the heavyweight favourite Lorenzo il Magnifico. (Gigli also co-designed the much-loved Grand Austria Hotel.) It is live on Gamefound now and has already funded.
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Set up your group for freeThe setting is the dawn of modern science. You play a scholar observing the night sky, writing persuasive treatises and building inventions to reshape how the world understands the heavens. The clever hook is a choice that echoes the real Galileo's troubles: do you back the sun-centred Copernican principle or the old Earth-centred Ptolemaic one? That decision colours your options and your scoring, mixing worker placement, resource management and a little deck-building into the kind of chewy puzzle Gigli and Brasini are known for.
Publisher Awaken Realms is best known lately for big miniatures projects, so a comparatively restrained, brain-burning euro from the studio makes a nice change of pace. Pledges start at around 49 euros.
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Find events near youIf you are the sort of player who likes a table to go quiet while everyone plots three moves ahead, this is one to watch. Galileo's Truth is aiming for that expert-euro sweet spot, and with these designers attached, the pedigree is hard to argue with. Round up your heaviest-gaming friends for when it lands.
Sources: Gamefound | Board Game Quest | BoardGameGeek
