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Epic Worker Placement

Andromeda's Edge

2-4 players · 80-160 min · 2024

Dwellings of Eldervale

1-5 players · 60-150 min · 2020

$80

Price

8.6

BGG Score

Heavy

Weight

120m

Avg Time

$80

Price

8.1

BGG Score

Heavy

Weight

105m

Avg Time

Why Compare These Two?

Same designer — Luke Laurie created both games, with his son Maximus co-designing Andromeda's Edge. Reviewers widely consider Andromeda's Edge the spiritual successor to Dwellings of Eldervale: it keeps the core blend of worker placement, area control, and engine building but layers on deeper strategy and tighter mechanics. The biggest change is combat — Dwellings relies on swingy dice rolls, while Andromeda's Edge introduces a targeting system that makes fights more predictable and tactical. Andromeda also adds more subtasks per action, asymmetric factions, and a modular station-building system that replaces Eldervale's adventure card tableau. If you loved Dwellings but wanted more strategic depth and less randomness, Andromeda's Edge is literally the designer's answer to that. If you prefer the chaos and the minis — Dwellings is still the one.

Theme & Vibe

Edge of a collapsing galaxy — you're building a space station, recruiting alien leaders, and claiming planets. Sci-fi opera with gorgeous art and chunky modular station tiles.

Theme Immersion

0.0 / 10

Theme

Mythic elemental realms filled with dragons, giants, and ancient magic. Towering monster miniatures and a hexagonal world that feels alive. Theme absolutely drips from every component.

Theme Immersion

0.0 / 10

Core Mechanic

Your workers are upgradable starships with unique abilities. Place them on a shared galaxy map to claim resources and territory, then build out your personal space station with modular tiles. A targeting system replaces dice-based combat with tactical, predictable fights. Many actions involve multiple subtasks — deeper and more involved than its predecessor.

Worker PlacementEngine BuildingTile PlacementArea Control

Engine

Worker placement meets area control with dice-based combat. Place a worker to gather resources and trigger powers, then fight for territory. Your tableau of adventure cards builds your engine.

Worker PlacementArea ControlDice CombatEngine Building

Moderate — competing for planet control, shared worker spots, and area majority. Raiders actively threaten you unlike the avoidable monsters in Dwellings. Indirect conflict but you feel the squeeze.

Interaction Level

0.0 / 10

Interaction

High — direct combat over territory is central to the game. You will fight, you will lose workers, and you will love it. Not for the conflict-averse.

Interaction Level

0.0 / 10

Very high — modular galaxy setup, huge variety of leaders and station tiles, asymmetric factions. No two games play the same.

Replayability

0.0 / 10

Replay

High — modular board, 8 unique factions, huge variety of adventure cards and monsters. Each game tells a different story.

Replayability

0.0 / 10

What's in the Box

Standard Edition

Modular galaxy board tiles
Plastic starship workers that physically upgrade
Station module tiles that snap onto your player board
Resource tokens, leader cards, faction boards

Deluxe All-In

Metal tokens replacing cardboard
Upgraded starship miniatures
Expansion content included
The station-building — clicking tiles onto your board — gives a tactile satisfaction most euros lack

Components

Standard Edition