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It’s the last 10 minutes of your favorite sci-fi TV show… except that this time things have gone seriously wrong and The Captain Is Dead! This turn-based, survival/strategy puts you in the Captain's chair as you try to save your crew from being blown to bits by aliens...
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Review score: 78% on 2026-11-01 → 78% today (66 reviews)
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Ahoy there, crew! Our second major update is officially live today, as we continue our plans to emiggen your bad-ass space posse, with 2 new crew members for you to command! The versatile Hologram is only activated in dire emergencies... which pretty much desc…
Ahoy there, crew! Our first update is officially live today, adding (among other things) 2 new crew members to your team! The Teleporter Chief can get you what you need, where you need it. He'll keep your systems running smoothly, and can beam crew and tools a…
When your crew is facing deep-space disaster, you can always rely on one man to rock up at the eleventh hour and save your sorry butts… Duke Nukem! That’s why we've enlisted legendary voice actor, Jon St. John, to provide the voice for the final crew member in…
Stand by for action, brave commanders! Here at Thunderbox HQ we're getting ready for our final crew update, and it's a good one... This update will finally max out the crew roster (to 18), and adds numerous enhancements. Joining the existing crew are The First…
New crew have just beamed aboard... and not a moment too soon! Get ready to turn the tide of battle as three versatile new specialists join the fight... D I P L O M A C Y Maybe those pesky space aliens are just getting their Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra confuse…
...Your thoughts to my thoughts! It's time for the Beta Channel to get cosmic with the addition of a mysterious, new crew member: The Telepath! P S Y C H I C The Telepath can use his mind-bending power to trade skills with any crew member on the ship without t…
Fresh Update incoming!!! Check out new crew and features for The Captain is Dead! U P D A T E v 1.3 The latest update brings the Medical and Weapons Officers to the main build, ready to heal injured crew while grumbling incoherently, and dispense smooth torped…
Space... The final frontier... Our mission continues... to bring you more crew... more features... and more laser-to-face danger! C R E W Get ready for the next crew members to beam aboard: The Weapons and Medical Officers! The Weapons Officer is a smooth oper…
We've been working like crazy on the next update, and I'm excited to say that it's a biggie! Aside from a major pass on the animation, to improve the silky smoothness, we're adding two new characters (the versatile Hologram, and mysterious Scholar) and 36 bran…
Heads up, crew! We've just uploaded a new beta release, with bug-fixes, tweaks and, oh yeah... THE HOLOGRAM! That means that if you've subscribed to the beta, this photonic fellow will be waiting for you when you next fire up the game. There are two things you…
Let's cut straight to the chase here, people: Achievements are for the weak! Most games reward you for just booting them up... but not The Captain is Dead. No sirree! We've decided to do things differently with our Achievements, and have crafted them with the …
Flip open your Communicator, and bust out the PADD - it's time to go mobile! Don't get caught short on an away mission... The Captain is Dead is available for all good mobile devices. And even some bad ones. Check out the pan-galatic pocket panic, in the mobil…
Here at Thunderbox HQ we've been working away diligently on upgrading and improving your starship! We'd like to share a quick road-map of what's coming up in the not-too-distant future... More Crew! We're aiming to deliver a new crewman roughly every month, st…
Fresh from starring in Immortals - Fenyx Rising for Ubisoft, and Blood of Zeus on Netflix, prodigious actor Elias Toufexis joins the crew of The Captain is Dead for some over-the-top, sci-fi survival strategy. If you’ve played a videogame in the last 10 years,…
Join Mandi & Suzanne from The Dice Tower, along with Ashley from Meeple Mountain, as they try out a new, extra dangerous rule variant, exclusive to the digital edition of this stylishly intense, sci-fi, survival/strategy game. It's called Deadly Mode... how ha…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcjigWovVb8 It's the last 10 minutes of your favourite sci-fi show… except that this time things have gone seriously wrong and The Captain Is Dead! Join Mandi & Suzanne from The Dice Tower, along with Ashley from Meeple Mountain…
Here at Thunderbox, The Captain is Dead is one of our most favoritest board games EVAH! Recreating the intense experience of battling a relentless alien nemesis with a band of your best buddies is a daunting task... so we decided to skip the literal approach t…
Space can be a dangerous place. Particularly if your Jump Core has blown a fuse. You may think you're a seasoned, interstellar hard-case... but things can go south pretty fast when the sub-space anomaly hits the fan. Join the digital designer, from Thunderbox …
Here at Thunderbox, The Captain is Dead is one of our most favoritest board games EVAH! Recreating the intense experience of battling a relentless alien nemesis with a band of your best buddies is a daunting task... so we decided to skip the literal approach t…
The dynamic duo of Mandi Hutchinson and Suzanne Sheldon are pretty amazing. By day they review board games on The Dice Tower... but by night they also stream the latest and greatest digital editions under the secret identity of Salt and Sass! And if you were w…
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