Space Alert is a cooperative survival designer board game created by Vlaada Chvátil in 2008.

Unlike most board games, in Space Alert, players need to make decisions and play cards in real time.

Each card allows the player to move around the ship, or to take actions (such as firing a laser, supplying energy to a reactor, etc.).

The crew consists of a captain, a chief of security, a communications officer and two general space cadets.

The action round progression follows an audio track, included in the game components, that narrates the different events in each phase.

[6] Space Alert box appears in The Big Bang Theory in episode 11x10 ("The Confidence Erosion"), visible behind Stuart in the Comic Center shop.