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product_id: 18018204
title: "Cosmic Encounter"
brand: "avalon hill"
price: "€ 22.88"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 4
url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/18018204-cosmic-encounter
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region: Austria
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# Cosmic Encounter

**Brand:** avalon hill
**Price:** € 22.88
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

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- **What is this?** Cosmic Encounter by avalon hill
- **How much does it cost?** € 22.88 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Description

Your race is in peril. To survive, your species must spread five colonies to other star systems. Fleets of spaceships, willpower, guile, and a bit of tricky card play are the tools at your command. Those and your special alien power! Using your power lets you bend, mutilate, or break one rule of the game in a specific way. But beware -- all of the other aliens in the game have their own special powers, too. With 20 different alien powers to choose from, every game is sure to be different and exciting.

## Images

![Cosmic Encounter - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61wSpWS-4YL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the classics
*by J***E on March 22, 2005*

I first played this game when I was a teenager over 20 years ago. We would play the game through the night switching aliens and seeing which aliens would win against other aliens. Often the most powerful aliens who we thought should win would not and the ones that seemed to be the weakest would. The play balance is great.The story is easy. Each player assumes an alien with a special power and tries to take over enough planets to win the game. Along the way the players can make or break alliances. The rules are easy and the aliens are fanciful. I have played the game now with my family and it has stood the test of time. Now if they would only add all the expansion sets of the old game we would be set.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best board game ever!
*by Z***H on April 12, 2008*

While this game is kind of obscure, it's a HUGE amount of fun! Pick an Alien race (each one gets its own unique power), and conquer enemy territories! It's fun, dynamic, moves fast, and is extremely well conceptualized. Everyone should play!

### ⭐⭐ Bad Version of a Great Game
*by R***T on September 15, 2010*

This version is by far the worst version of the game. Still, it's CE, so it's fun if you don't have access to the other versions and are willing to pay the overblown price. This version is pretty, which is its only good point. The rules were changed poorly, and this version is set up to prevent any possibility of expansion...a major flaw in Cosmic Encounters. Even the tokens (ships) though pretty, are bulky and oversized. The artwork was a substantial improvement over the Mayfair version, but for me, a long term Cosmic Encounter fan, its multitude of careless flaws made the game less enjoyable. I do not recommend this version. I imagine only a collector would want this one, or someone who's never played CE before and isn't interested in expansion. Me...I threw mine in the trash and dusted off my old Mayfair version. The new Cosmic Encounter from Fantasy Flight is distantly superior in every imaginable way and much less expensive, as is every other version.

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*Last updated: 2026-04-30*