Argo, German

Argo, German

It takes a few moments for you to fully regain consciousness. The nausea and pounding headache are old friends, as is the smell of the coolant being drained from your cryostasis chamber. Around you, other crew members are slowly waking up as well. But wait... what kind of place is this? This isn’t the ship’s recovery room where you were put into cryosleep! What happened? Could it be that your transport ship was attacked by organ traffickers, who then stored your cryochambers here temporarily? As the rest of the crew wakes up, the voice of the central computer booms from all the speakers: “Argo Station, Central Systems. Xeno presence detected. All personnel are to proceed immediately to the escape pods.” The lighting drastically changes color to underscore the emergency. First the change of location, and now aliens too? What the… “Commander, where are we?” Your team has woken up and is gathering around you. “I don’t know, and I don’t want to know. You heard it. Let’s find the escape pods, and then let’s get the hell out of here. Forward!”

Argo. A remote mining station deep in outer space. Organ traffickers who kidnap astronauts from their cryogenic chambers. Aliens. Lots of aliens. It’s going to be a wild ride on the way to the escape pods.

In Argo, you and your team wake up from cryosleep in an alien-infested mining station. Your goal is to get as many of your people as possible into the escape pods before the aliens kill everyone. Use the aliens to take out the other players’ astronauts while guiding your own safely into the escape pods. But be careful: If the aliens catch too many people, they win the game and all players lose! To win the game, you must walk a fine line between competition and cooperation, because space in the escape pods is limited.

If you can skillfully utilize your team’s special abilities and the unique effects of the space station’s modules, you might be able to gain a valuable advantage over your fellow players.

In Argo, each player controls a team of astronauts. The goal of the game is to find the escape pods and rescue as many of your own astronauts as possible. However, since all players also control the aliens and space in the escape pods is limited, things could get extremely dicey. You score points by getting your astronauts into the capsules before they undock from the spaceship and by using the aliens to eliminate other players’ astronauts. Finally, the aliens also score points for every dead astronaut, and if the players hunt each other down too ruthlessly, the aliens might end up defeating all the human players.