
- 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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Five Parsecs: Salvage Jobs Expansion is an expansion for Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition released in 2020 for 1 player and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Ivan Sorensen and its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game and Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game.
This expansion adds Salvage Jobs to the Five Parsecs From Home game system. With these rules you can obtain a license, dig around old starship wrecks and get in a shoot-out over the loot. Updated, tweaked and improved from the original version, this expansion includes all the extra detail needed to work in the current version of the Five Parsecs rules set, letting your crew take on a quest one day, a salvage job the next and fight off alien invaders on Thursday! If you are familiar with the original version, now salvage jobs are simply another mission type you can get involved with in the game, using the same crew. It also benefits from the many improvements to Five Parsecs such as the massively increased Enemy table Note that this is an expansion to Five Parsecs From Home. It is NOT a stand-alone title. —description from the publisher
Five Parsecs: Salvage Jobs Expansion 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.
The catalogue lists Five Parsecs: Salvage Jobs Expansion for ages 12 and up. This is the publisher’s recommendation and reflects reading demands, rule complexity and small components rather than theme alone. Younger players can often join with help from an adult, so check the age guidance on your edition and consider your group’s experience with board games.
Five Parsecs: Salvage Jobs Expansion belongs to these categories: Wargame, Miniatures, and Science Fiction. 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 Five Parsecs: Salvage Jobs Expansion 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 Five Parsecs: Salvage Jobs Expansion 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.