Beyond the Sun is an Italian board game by Dennis K. Chan published by Ghenos Games. It is designed for 2 to 4 players and lasts approximately 90 minutes, recommended for ages 14 and up. Beyond the Sun is a space civilization game where players collectively decide the technological advancement of mankind at the dawn of the Space Age while competing to be the leading faction in galactic economic development, science, and influence.

The game is played over a variable number of rounds until a certain number of end-game results are collectively claimed by the players. The winner is the faction with the most victory points, earned by researching technologies, improving their economy, controlling and colonizing systems, and completing various objectives and events throughout the game.

On a turn, a player moves their action piece to an empty action space and takes that action. They then conduct a production phase, producing ore, growing their population, or exchanging one resource for another. Finally, they can claim up to a conquest if possible. As players take action, they research new technologies available in four levels. Each technology falls into one of four types: scientific, economic, military, or commercial, and higher-level technologies must correspond to one of the types that lead to it.

Thus, players create their own tech tree in each game, using these actions to increase their military strength, jump into different habitable exoplanetary systems, colonize those systems, increase their resource production, develop android technology that allows for growth without population, and more.