Best 3-player space exploration board games

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

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

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