
Designer: Rhys Turton
Artist: Mac Teg
Join the space race by drawing a mine on the moon, surviving dangers, and keeping your Apollo Mine alive!

Apollo Mine is a mapping game of adventure – but on the lunar surface, instead of in a Dwarf Mine!
Apollo Mine was built using the same ideas as the Dwarf Mine game. However, there are additions, expansions, and differences between Dwarf Mine and Apollo Mine that make this (in my opinion) an incredibly fun, new mapping game experience!
What’s in the Game
- Draw your mine your way – in Apollo Mine, you have the freedom to draw your mine exactly the way you want. The game allows you to explore different strategies of building a mine – perhaps digging wide, avoiding more dangerous enemies but staying exposed to radiation – or perhaps digging deep, braving the dangers of the moon but collecting more resources and avoiding radiation!
- Resource and Combat Lists – four different resource and combat lists to roll on, depending on the current depth of your mine.
- Radiation – this is a new mechanic that threatens the personnel in your Apollo Mine! You can protect against it by building specialized rooms – or by digging deeper into the surface of the moon!
- Sealing Rooms – have a pesky yet dangerous enemy lurking in the depths of your Apollo Mine? There is a new, space-based strategy to use. You can seal your rooms, depriving the enemy of oxygen. This defeats the enemy, at the cost of the rooms you seal.
- Hallway/Ladder Collapse – this new rule gives limitations on the length of a hallway or ladder, before it collapses.
- 15 New Rooms – Included with Apollo Mine are 15 new rooms, including some twists on concepts from Dwarf Mine.
- 4 Base Level Lists – Similar to Dwarf Mine, Apollo Mine comes with 4 Level Lists to use based on how deep your mine goes – each with fun theming for mining in space! These include new enemies, new discoveries, and new persistent threats!
- 6 Expansions – There are 6 built-in expansions that will be included with the base game!
- 3 Maps – Apollo Mine comes with 3 maps to choose from and play!
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