You are a team of newbie astronauts dispatched on an actual mission in an actual spaceship in actual outer space! Exciting, right? It would be...if any of you actually had any idea what you were doing. Would have been nice to have at least one experienced pilot on board, but now that you are here, you'll just have to figure it out as you go along.

In Noobs in Space, a team of two to five players must complete a series of tasks and challenges together, using what little knowledge they have. Not all hope is lost since each of you has a small part of the solution; you just need to figure out how to put it all together. While one player might know the task at hand but not have the resources to implement it, those resources may be shared among three other players. They, on the other hand, have no idea what is necessary based on the information they have. Since the players cannot show cards to each other, there must be a lot of clear communication and interaction by describing or reading out cards in order to gradually find out what should be done — and all of this must be done as quickly as possible.

The story leads through several levels, and every level consists of several tasks, so the whole game is an action-packed event from beginning to end.