Twilight Imperium has a little bit of everything. A strategic space opera like this needs to unfurl its wings a bit. Almost 36 square feet of space, and the game with its boxes takes up practically all of it. The original game, and three separate expansions. And what a sprawling, beautiful mess it’s been.
Twilight Imperium has been around for a long time, and the fourth iteration is the best version yet, but when my group has sat down early on Saturday mornings, collectively agreeing to spend the next six to twelve hours glued to the chair, it’s been the third edition of the game laid out on the table.
Their boxes are a catastrophe in term of organization, but thankfully that doesn’t translate to the quality of the games themselves. They’ve designed most of the complex strategy games that weigh down the shelves of my closet. And its developer, Fantasy Flight Games, has been a constant presence in my tabletop experiences ever since I fell down the board game hole. Twilight Imperium is a chaotic masterpiece.
