Drop Drive
BGG Rank: 8052
Players: 2 - 4, Recommended: 4+, Best: 4
Playing Time: 60 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5
Mechanisms: End Game Bonuses, Events, Pattern Movement, Pick-up and Deliver, Set Collection, Variable Set-up
Family: Misc: LongPack Games
Designer: Scott R. Smith
Artist: Gong Studios
Publisher: Phase Shift Games
Instant Space... Infinite Possibilities!
Gather your crew and prepare to explore the vast reaches of infinite space! Your newly installed rocket drive will aid in mining valuable resources from nearby asteroids, while your experimental drop drive will let you jump to distant and unknown depths of space. Orbit strange worlds to sell your cargo, pick up passengers, and collect alien specimens, all while battling unscrupulous pirates hell-bent on profiting off your tireless efforts...
...it's time to drop into infinite space!
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Drop Drive is a lightweight sandbox game for 2-4 players (5 with extra add-on pack), featuring a "drop-style" mechanic that assures no two games could possibly be the same. Drop Drive blends strategy with a novel spatial element that will challenge casual and hardcore gamers alike!
THE BIG BANG! At the start of each game, objects of all kinds are dropped onto the table from a height of 4 to 5 inches. This creates a galaxy layout with infinite possibilities. You will then assume the role of an alien starship captain, exploring space, upgrading your ship, mining asteroids for precious resources, and landing on mysterious worlds to sell your cargo, pick up passengers, and collect strange alien specimens!
—description from the publisher
| Average Playing Time | 1-2 hours |
|---|---|
| Best Player Count | 4 Best |
| Collection | Kevin |
| Difficulty | Opener/Closer |
| Played | Unplayed |
| Recommended Player Count | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
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Players: 0 - 0, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 0 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
You may use Captain Marv Luz in any game of Drop Drive, and you may now play with up to 5 players at once! Marv keeps all 3 explore cards drawn at the start of each game.
When playing with 5 players, add in the extra asteroids, salvage piece, fuel canisters, and market demand tokens.
This expansion pack includes:
• 5th captain components (captain tile, player ship, pirate ship, battle die, 7 nav tool links)
• 5 asteroids
• 1 salvage piece
• 2 fuel canisters
• 4 market demand tokens
• Extra cardboard space coins
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Players: 2 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 60 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
This adds an additional Ship Part card to the game called "Incubator" with two cargo slots.
This was handed as a freebie to people testing Drop Drive at Spiel 2023 and later available as part of Pack Druid from the Dice Tower 2023 Kickstarter campaign.
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Players: 2 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 60 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
What’s that signal?!
Expand your cosmic journey with the "Strange Signals" expansion for Drop Drive. Explore eight unique anomaly packs that redefine gameplay, from an ancient Dropgate network to the completely improbable Whales of Deep Thoughts. Whether you're a seasoned commander or a fresh cadet straight out of space school, you will navigate uncharted challenges and rewrite the rules of space. Embrace the mysteries of the cosmos and lead your crew to galactic victory in this extraordinary expansion!
...it's time to drop deeper into infinite space!
Strange Signals is an epic expansion for Drop Drive, featuring 8 immersive anomaly packs that will create unusual and exciting story lines. Anomaly packs represent game-altering events, each including premium game content and unique components. Some anomalies are nods to well-loved sci-fi tropes, while others are machinations of our own design. Many of the anomalies in this expansion were created in collaboration with our amazing Kickstarter community!
Prepare to bend infinite space... and explore new dimensions! This expansion includes:
Dropgate
Belter’s Bazaar
The Last Element
Zest Planet
The Whale of Deep Thoughts
Pirate Port
Maelstrom
Furious Furballs
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Players: 2 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 60 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
This adds an additional explore card of the type Ship Upgrade to the game called "Beaming." It allows you to collect 1 when your closest opponent drops cargo.
This was handed as a freebie to people testing Drop Drive at Spiel 2023 and later available as part of Pack Druid from the Dice Tower 2023 Kickstarter campaign.
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Players: 2 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 60 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
The Death Dodecahedron has come to destroy planets!!
Tweaking the Big Bang stage of the game, players will find the Death Dodecahedron moving at the end of their turns towards the closest planet. If it gets too close, say goodbye to the planet, as all goods on it are spread around the cosmos. Players will find themselves rushing to fulfil their goals and possibly attack this new imposing threat to the Universe as, if the last planet is destroyed, it is game over with no winner.
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Players: 2 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -
Playing Time: 60 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 0.00 / 5
Bringing in two expansions for both Dungeon Drop and Drop Drive, get ready for more fun.
In Dungeon Drop, get two new classes to celebrate the efforts of Phase Shift Games to try and get this content over to the players and get ready to face the Mimic as it tries to take the player's chests.
In Drop Drive, prepare to run salvage operations as floating cargo from a wreck needs collecting and delivering to the local shipping hub.
GWGumby rated:
Kickstarted. Looks even better than Dungeon Drop.
Peaceful_Dragon rated:
In Stock.
delker79 rated:
KICKSTARTER
Geeken rated:
5.55KS 2025
Green404 rated:
So excited for the replayability of this game and all the unique combinations of ships and upgrades!
MunchkinClaire rated:
I can't wait to see how the pieces come out in real life! They look so cool in the designs!
DUDEMIKE rated:
Drop objects onto the board to make a solar system. Travel to the "planets" and collect cargo, fight pirates and other ships.
rmoosesmith rated:
Love the flexibility of the play in this game.
BigBlueWildcat rated:
I really like the ships being able to be upgraded and the upgraded components on the kickstarter. Looking forward to this game.
Nokura rated:
I'm really hyped to get this game. It looks like a great implementation of pick up and deliver in a compact package
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