How to play Gaia Project

Video tutorial on how to play the board game, Gaia Project
** WARNING ** I make some MAJOR goofs in the rules.

1st, I fail to mention that whoever is HIGHEST on each End Game Scoring track scores the 18 points, 2nd highest scores 12, and 3rd highest (must be greater than zero) scores 6. If tied, the tied players add 1st and 2nd place points together, and they split those evenly.

29:39 is incorrect, when you cross into the top level of any research track, you do NOT automatically pick up the 'Advanced Tech' tile. You must take an action that allows you to take a tech tile, and IF your marker is adjacent to the advanced tech tile, you make take it instead of a regular tech tile, but this ALSO requires a federation token to be flipped.

Regarding the passive cycling of power, you CAN cycle fewer power tokens than the max you've "earned" IF it's not possible to cycle more. You just can't OPTIONALLY say cycle 1 power for free if an opponents build allows you to cycle more than that at the cost of VP.

36:06 is wrong, you CAN have the same federation token you already have taken

Thanks to viewers bardpondo and Curtis Baker for helping me find my goofs!


1:27 Game Setup
8:18 Goal of the game and scoring
10:10 The Power Cycle
12:56 Overview of the round
13:19 Income
14:45 First Planets
15:50 Available Actions
17:40 Action: Building a mine and Terraforming
21:40 Gaia Planets and Action: Gaia Projects
25:01 Gaia Phase
25:35 Action: Upgrade a building
26:40 Basic Technology tokens
27:38 The Research Board and Advanced Technology tokens
31:32 Spending Knowledge to advance research
31:45 Taking Special Actions
33:33 Action: Forming a Federation
37:08 Action: Passing
38:25 Clean Up Phase
39:03 Passive Power Generation
41:36 Iconography
42:36 Academy choice
42:35 Planetary Institute bonuses