Immerse yourself in a fast-paced race to the final frontier – space. A deck-building confrontation of swift decisionmaking and tactical choices – Rocketmen gives you the feel of taking a front seat in a technologically wonderful spectacle of space exploration. It’s up to your predictive abilities and resource management skills to determine what kind of endeavor will be most suitable for paving the way to Earth’s celestial neighbors.
Players gain Victory Points by successfully launching various space missions with main objectives to explore three celestial destinations: Earth Orbit, the Moon and Mars. The game ends when one of the players scores a certain number of Victory Points, or all 12 space missions have been completed, or if a player chooses to end the game by placing their fifth or sixth token resulting in each destination having at least one mission completed. Every successful mission gives players considerable perks: additional rocket points, extra cash, increased hand size, and supplementary resources. These, in turn, help them prepare more easily for their future missions.