My wife is my primary gaming opponent when we play games, and while we do meet as regularly as possible with multiple different gaming groups that we have, most games are just the two of us. Because of this I always try to include her impressions and thoughts on games we own and help add two voices to reviews. That being said, my wife does not enjoy polyomino games even in the slightest. Planning where and how you'll place tiles multiple turns in advance to her isn't a fun game. However, she is awesome to always play these games with me because I LOVE them! I could not be happier than staring down at all those wonderful shapes and calculating their best placement and planning many turns in advance to be certain I have the resources to play the tiles I need the most.Cosmic Colonies brings variable setups, interactive game play, card drafting, resource management, and tile placement/collection all to your table in an extremely friendly and tidy way. If you haven't ever tried a polyomino tile placement game I really think Cosmic Colonies is a fantastic recommendation for your first try at them, it is easy to learn and has several variants to increase game difficulty as you progress.Rounds are simple, players will either be building tile shapes onto their game board attempting to cover the rough landscape, or collecting resources to build in a later round. You'll make these decisions based on the cards in your hand, and later the cards other players previously used. In each of the short 8 rounds everyone will select 1 card to play facedown, many of these cards have varied powers that enhance your building or collection game abilities. The more powerful cards have higher numbers on them than weaker cards, and once everyone reveals their card actions are carried out lowest to highest. So while you may have planned to build the blue "L" shaped building onto your board players with lower numbered cards going before you may remove that option and you'll have to switch gears. Once all actions are carried out a second card is played the same way, and then the round ends. Polyomino building shapes and resources are then replaced, cards you used pass to your opponents and the next round begins.Great game, I love it, it takes planning and forward thought as you'll want to look to future rounds and anticipate that a powerful card someone else played earlier will end up in your hand in a later round. I also think the advanced worker cards are big change to the basic game and make it even more of a thinker at your table. Cards have 2 actions the first card is your "day" action and the second card you choose can only activate using the "night" action. This adds a new level to your turns as you'll now focus on not only when you play a card but which one should come first or second.I do have one component issue with this game though and it is that it is incredibly hard to see the player and main boards under almost any light conditions. The player boards are extremely high quality and have a textured print to them, but they are rather glossy and the light glare off of them is quite hard to get past. Our only solution was to hover over our board to then put it in shadow, but then the board being a bit dark made it harder to choose where to place tiles. The main tile board is a flat matte finish and very thick board which I appreciate, but it also had some issues with how overhead light drowns out what you can see. These are quite minor issues, but I did want to bring them up.Lastly I'll mention that I love this at the 2p count and surprisingly, as I usually don't play solo modes of games I have found the solo variant of this very fun. I get a really great game experience playing against a robot AI who is awesome to play with, the Cosmic Colonies robot loves playing polyomino games as much as I do so it is a perfect match for us.