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First Contact is boxed card game with board game elements. The game is played by 2-4 players and involves several key concepts:

General Game information

• the theme of the game is "first encounters with aliens".
• it takes place in modern-day american suburbs.
• a series of alien objects have appeared in towns along the coast. at each, the first people who encounter the objects gained the ability to see alien memories encoded in Engrams, which they can use to build up their affinity with alien entities. You are one of those people, and you begin your quest to connect - or dominate - the entities with a small outpost around your object.
• the game cycles between two strategic phases: discovery and arrival.
• in the discovery phase, players play location cards to build up their territory and race to summon a powerful alien entity.
• in the arrival phase, the player who summoned that entity takes control of them and can choose how to use its powerful abilities while all players attempt to commune with the entity - or destroy it!
• the game starts in the preparation phase, and returns to the preparation phase after each arrival phase.
• there are several decks: the location deck (60 cards), the engrams deck (40 cards), and the arrival deck (20 cards)
• there are several other cards: heroes (5), hqs (5), entities (5), boons (5)

card types

• "locations" represent buildings and spaces in town. they are drawn from the Locations deck.
• “hq” locations are special locations that each player starts with. it represents a hero’s outpost around an alien monolith. players are assigned HQ’s randomly at the beginning of the game.
• "engrams" are permanent status effects that increase your power and your affinity with one of five alien entities. they are drawn from the engrams deck.