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UMBRA is a game about building and defending on an alien colony, where you play as the leader of your spaceship's crew against starvation (the void), space pirates, rival ships in orbit, invading fleets from other star systems, hostile artificial intelligence agents that will attempt to destroy all life aboard. To survive longer than usual means for survival games is a small deck-sized cardboard gameboard featuring an alien map with planets and their resources such as water, food, oxygen (all of which are scarce) minerals, fuel cells, weapons like laser guns or particle beam cannon, drones that can be upgraded in different ways to increase survivability. The basic gameplay is turn based card drafting where you draw cards from a deck with unique items/actions such as mining the grid for resources and hiring units (which cost money), using your hand of tools like laser drills or welding torches on robots, repairing damage by playing "drones" that can repair various parts. Each player starts off at their own colony built in an underground chamber deep beneath a volcanic planet with different resource-rich environments such as waterfalls to gather resources and food patches for the crew's sustenance while defending from invaders attacking through tunnels or via flying spaceships shooting lasers down below ground, making it easier