Review
Light Speed: Arena
Light Speed: Arena is a tiny spaceship disaster with a phone camera: throw ships, take a photo, and find out what you destroyed. Often, it is your own base.
- Published
- 2025
- Designer
- Leonardo Alese, James Ernest, Tom Jolly, Emanuele Santellani
- Publisher
- Tablescope, Cranio Creations, Dino Toys s. r. o.
- Players
- 1–4
- Playing time
- 15 min
Light Speed: Arena did to our table what the Death Star did to Alderaan: it left nothing standing, including our composure. This is for groups after noise, laughter, and a game that will not survive a second of solemnity.
You throw your ships onto the board — strategically, allegedly — and where they land is the whole business. There is no time to stroke a perfect move into existence; there is a decision, a toss, and a brief pause before you learn whether you have been clever or spectacularly foolish.
With admirable consistency you may discover that you have destroyed your own base from a distance.
TheCuttlefish
Then the phone comes out: you photograph the board and the app resolves the space battle. Shots travel across the table, bases take what is coming to them, and with admirable consistency you may discover that you have destroyed your own base from a distance. That is when the proper noise begins.
This is not a game to take seriously; it is a game to watch a plan explode, laugh, and throw more ships. For a Dungeon Derby sort of occasion, Light Speed: Arena is carnage in exactly the right way.
For a Dungeon Derby sort of occasion, Light Speed: Arena is carnage in exactly the right way.
TheCuttlefish
Source: BoardGameGeek
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