
- BGG rank
- BGG #4,775
- BGG rating
- 8.5
Five Parsecs From Home: Solo Adventure Wargaming
- 1–2 players
- 90 min
- Complexity 2.9/5
- 2021

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Brain Heist: A Five Parsecs Scenario is an expansion for Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition released in 2020 for 1 player. It was designed by Ivan Sorensen and its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game and Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game.
Brain Heist is a fun and quick scenario for the Five Parsecs miniatures rules. Storm a shipping facility, secure a bunch of military-grade robot brains and make it out before the enemy onslaught gets too serious! Playable as a solo scenario with random enemy reinforcements, this scenario can be dropped into any Five Parsecs From Home campaign. —description from the designer
Brain Heist: A Five Parsecs Scenario supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Brain Heist: A Five Parsecs Scenario belongs to these categories: Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game and Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Brain Heist: A Five Parsecs Scenario are: Ivan Sorensen. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Brain Heist: A Five Parsecs Scenario as an expansion for Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition to use it. Check that your edition of Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.