Sky Team board game sticks the landing at this year’s Gen Con

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The Sky Team board game arrived at this year’s Gen Con going full throttle. Polygon had a chance to sit in the cockpit of the latest release from the talented crew at Le Scorpion Masqué, the same team responsible for hits such as the wonderful party game Decrypto, the upcoming Dead Cells board game, and the 2022 Gen Con hit Turing Machine. Sky Team is yet another unusual design full of personality, as two players crew the flight deck of a commercial airliner seeking to safely land at their destination airport. It’s quirky, full of tension and clever mechanisms, and it’s also surprisingly good at capturing several aspects of real-world flight simulation.

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This delightful 20-minute cooperative experience was designed from the ground up in service to the theme. “My best friend is a (glider) pilot and his whole family works in aviation. I designed the game and the cockpit with him in mind. From the first version, all the elements were already present,” designer Luc Rémond told Polygon recently in an email interview.

Over seven rounds, players roll a small pool of dice and then take turns placing one of them on the cockpit board to perform an action. They work in cooperation to maintain a steady flight path, deploy the landing gear, lower the flaps, and perform several other essential functions. Success is