This is a very strategic deck building game, this plays 1-4 players. The goal sounds simple, the head quarters just has to survive 9 rounds of enemy attacks, but each round the players get to buy troops, equipment, etc... to help survive the rounds. Sounds easy right? Nope it's grudgingly hard, there are 3 different decks of bad guys, wave 1 enemies for the first 3 waves, wave 2 for waves 4-6, and wave 3 enemies for waves 7-9. And depending on number of players, there are either 1-2 bosses per deck. But the higher the wave, the better troops you get access to. The game comes with 24 unique item tracker cards 120 item cards, 6 division cards that give each player a unique special power, 108 total enemy cards, 6 boss enemy cards 2 per deck, 20 damage tokens, 20 ability tokens, 1 base HP spin dial, 1 wave dashboard for available troops, 1 item dashboard for available items, 4 player lane dashboards, 4 enemy lane dashboards, and rule book. The card stock is good not great, but not so bad that have to sleeve the cards. The rule book is very easy to follow, and makes it easy to learn. The parts I don't like are the damage, and ability tokens, there little plastic poker chips, not the easiest to pick up, and when marking damage on the player or enemy cards they slid around very easy. And the player and enemy dashboards are a thin cardboard, which is slippery, and the cards slid around if you just bump the table a little bit. But the game is still awesome enough that these little gripes won't stop me from playing. Xenoshyft is a very hard but very fun addictive game. The feeling you get from surviving a wave is great, then purchasing new weapons, armor, med-packs, or enhancers is fun. You have to plan out what your going to do, but you can also play cards on another players turn to help them. If you dont think you have good enough troops, and dont have the resources to purchase better one, your team mates can buy them for you. So this is a Huge Co-op game. This game gets a 8.5-10 with us, if the components were vetter quality it would get a better score, and there is replay ability here also. Hope the release some expansions for items, and enemies though. Just so it doesn't get to stale after to many play throughs.