Best space exploration board games

The top space exploration games out of 136 in this category, ranked by BoardGameGeek community rating. Terraforming Mars leads the list.

• Terraforming Mars (2016)
  1–5 players · 120 min · ★ 8.4
• Race for the Galaxy (2007)
  2–4 players · 30–60 min · ★ 7.8
• Gaia Project (2017)
  1–4 players · 60–150 min · ★ 8.5
• Battlestar Galactica The Board Game (2008)
  3–6 players · 120–180 min · ★ 7.7
• The Crew The Quest for Planet Nine (2019)
  2–5 players · 20 min · ★ 8.0
• Roll for the Galaxy (2014)
  2–5 players · 45 min · ★ 7.7
• Cosmic Encounter (2008)
  3–5 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.5
• Twilight Imperium Third Edition (2005)
  3–6 players · 180–240 min · ★ 7.8
• Galaxy Trucker (2007)
  2–4 players · 60 min · ★ 7.4
• On Mars (2020)
  1–4 players · 90–150 min · ★ 8.3
• Eclipse Second Dawn for the Galaxy (2020)
  2–6 players · 60–200 min · ★ 8.8
• Tiny Epic Galaxies (2015)
  1–5 players · 30–45 min · ★ 7.4
• Space Alert (2008)
  1–5 players · 30 min · ★ 7.4
• Xia Legends of a Drift System (2014)
  3–5 players · 60–180 min · ★ 7.9
• Space Base (2018)
  2–5 players · 60 min · ★ 7.6
• Firefly The Game (2013)
  1–4 players · 120–240 min · ★ 7.4
• Pulsar 2849 (2017)
  2–4 players · 60–90 min · ★ 7.7
• Star Wars Outer Rim (2019)
  1–4 players · 120–180 min · ★ 7.7
• StarCraft The Board Game (2007)
  2–6 players · 180–240 min · ★ 7.3
• Eminent Domain (2011)
  2–4 players · 45 min · ★ 7.0
• Quantum (2013)
  2–4 players · 60 min · ★ 7.3
• Beyond the Sun (2020)
  2–4 players · 60–120 min · ★ 8.0
• Space Empires 4X (2011)
  1–4 players · 180 min · ★ 7.7
• Leaving Earth (2015)
  1–5 players · 60–180 min · ★ 7.8
• Star Trek Fleet Captains (2011)
  2–4 players · 90–120 min · ★ 7.5
• Core Worlds (2011)
  2–5 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.2
• New Frontiers (2018)
  2–5 players · 45–75 min · ★ 7.6
• Merchant of Venus (Second Edition) (2012)
  1–4 players · 120–240 min · ★ 7.2
• Star Trek Frontiers (2016)
  1–4 players · 60–240 min · ★ 7.9
• The Starfarers of Catan (1999)
  3–4 players · 120 min · ★ 6.8
• SpaceCorp 2025-2300AD (2018)
  1–4 players · 60–240 min · ★ 7.7
• Mission Red Planet (2005)
  3–5 players · 60 min · ★ 6.9
• Starship Catan (2001)
  2 players · 60 min · ★ 6.8
• Empires of the Void II (2018)
  2–5 players · 90–180 min · ★ 7.5
• Jump Drive (2017)
  2–4 players · 10–30 min · ★ 7.0
• Circadians First Light (2019)
  1–4 players · 60–90 min · ★ 7.7
• Merchant of Venus (1988)
  1–6 players · 180 min · ★ 7.1
• High Frontier 4 All (2020)
  1–5 players · 30–240 min · ★ 8.7
• Ad Astra (2009)
  3–5 players · 60 min · ★ 6.9
• Ascending Empires (2011)
  2–4 players · 75 min · ★ 7.2
• Relic (2013)
  2–4 players · 180 min · ★ 6.8
• Space Cadets Dice Duel (2013)
  4–8 players · 30 min · ★ 6.8
• High Frontier (2010)
  2–5 players · 180 min · ★ 7.4
• High Frontier (Third Edition) (2017)
  1–5 players · 120–240 min · ★ 8.3
• Space Cadets (2012)
  3–6 players · 60–120 min · ★ 6.6
• The Artemis Project (2019)
  1–5 players · 60–75 min · ★ 7.3
• Exodus Proxima Centauri (2012)
  2–6 players · 180 min · ★ 7.2
• First Martians Adventures on the Red Planet (2017)
  1–4 players · 60–90 min · ★ 6.5
• The Expanse Board Game (2017)
  2–4 players · 60 min · ★ 7.2
• Impulse (2013)
  2–6 players · 30–60 min · ★ 6.8
• Alien Artifacts (2017)
  2–5 players · 60 min · ★ 6.7
• Kepler-3042 (2016)
  1–4 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.4
• Master of Orion The Board Game (2016)
  2–4 players · 40–60 min · ★ 7.0
• Catan Starfarers (2019)
  3–4 players · 120 min · ★ 7.7
• Wild Space (2020)
  1–5 players · 15–40 min · ★ 7.5
• Onward to Venus (2014)
  2–5 players · 90–120 min · ★ 6.9
• Space Cadets Away Missions (2015)
  1–6 players · 60–120 min · ★ 7.4
• Planetarium (2017)
  1–4 players · 45 min · ★ 7.0
• Space Explorers (2017)
  2–4 players · 20–40 min · ★ 7.1
• X-ODUS Rise of the Corruption (2020)
  1–4 players · 90–150 min · ★ 8.1