C:\> run galaxy_brain.exe

GALAXY
BRAIN▮

Your ship is your board. Your Captain is a menace. Your brain is about to get very, very large.

Galaxy Brain is a free online deckbuilding card duel set in an original, foul-mouthed space-opera parody. Pick one of three factions, crew your ship with aliens and underpaid robots, and fight other players (or a deeply smug AI) for the hull-cracking Legendaries of the Core Dump set.

> SEASON 1 OUT NOW  ·  FREE FOR WINDOWS ON ITCH.IO  ·  SEASON 2 ON STEAM

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Available in the US only.

C:\> type BRAIN.TXT

How big is your brain?

  1. Small Brain: play a card.
  2. Big Brain: play a card onto your ship, because your ship is the board: a Bridge for your Captain, a fight Deck for your Crew, an Engine Room and Gear slots.
  3. Glowing Brain: let your Captain give Orders, Board the Deck to throw hands, earn Renown, and Ascend into something far less reasonable.
  4. Galaxy Brain: every card you play grows your Brain meter, and at full Galaxy Brain your dumbest, biggest cards come online. It made sense at the time.

Every card is earned by playing. No packs for sale, no premium currency, no "limited offer" pop-ups. Just you, 2,000 cards, and a galaxy that badly needs you to calm down.

C:\> dir FACTIONS

3 faction(s) found  ·  15 sub-faction(s)

The Patient Pagoda, a Globois pagoda warship drifting past a ringed planet while a freighter waits stuck behind it

THE_GLOBOIS <CONTROL>

Sanctimonious space monks with glowing energy axes. They don't want to fight you. They want you to think about what you did. Control and denial: Sighs that stop attacks, Auras that shield, and Redactions that blank your best card. Not mad. Just disappointed.

Old Glow · Aura Farmers · Bioluminati · Burnouts · Lil' Glows

Cold Plunge Tender, a red Trihardchy warship that is mostly an ice bath full of grinning crew

THE_TRIHARDCHY <AGGRO>

An evil empire that paints everything red and is extremely proud of it. Flood the Deck, make a Dramatic Entrance, and win the damage race before anyone notices the fog machine. Nobody: / The Trihardchy: (enters, again)

Edgelord Court · The Grindset · The Legion of Acceptable Losses · Hype Ministry · Overkill-Works

The Sunday Gravy, La Costa Mostra's restaurant mega-yacht flagship, cruising past a sunset planet with a shark escort

LA_COSTA_MOSTRA <THEFT>

A seafood crime family. Octopus dons, loan sharks in resort shirts, eel hitmen and crabs who will strip your ship for parts. They steal your fuel, lend it back at Vig, and avoid a fair fight at all costs.

Famiglia Tentacolli · Famiglia Squalo · Famiglia Murena · Famiglia Granchio · Famiglia Seppia

Plus the robots (unpaid, unionizing), the unaligned freelancers (questionable), and the Admin: the four-partition AI that runs the galaxy and votes on the rules every single round.

C:\> type DEVLOG.TXT

Season 1 out now, free on itch.io  ·  Season 2 on Steam

Galaxy Brain is free. Cards and power are never for sale: the cards come from playing it. Version 0.1.0 is out for Windows. Development notes and patch notes go up on the itch.io devlog.

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