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Living Planet


30m - 120m

2 - 4 Players

Ages 14+
Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.
Hand Management
Play occurs upon a modular board that is composed of multiple pieces, often tiles or cards. In many games, board placement is randomized, leading to different possibilities for strategy and exploration.Some games in this category have multiple boards which are not used simultaneously, preserving table space. Unused boards remain out of play until they are required.
Modular Board
Tile Placement games feature placing a piece to score VPs, with the amount often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, and keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion", cluster size etc.
Tile Placement
In games with a trading mechanic, the players can exchange game items between each other.
Trading
This mechanism requires players to select individual actions from a set of actions available to all players. Players generally select actions one-at-a-time and in turn order. There is usually(*) a limit on the number of times a single action may be taken. Actions are commonly selected by the placement of game pieces or tokens on the selected actions. Each player usually has a limited number of pieces with which to participate in the process.
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  1. 6 out of 10

    An interesting exploration and stock market game. It works surprisingly well with 2 players. There is a lot to consider when choosing a card each round.

  2. 6 out of 10

    First impression: Very solid game with a really interesting dice mechanic. A bit counterintuitive at first, but once you get into the game it's a lot smoother. Edit: There's definitely a bit of luck involved with drawing tiles for exploration and market cards. Will have to play more to decide if this is something that bothers me or not. Edit: Sooo long. And there's too much downtime for my taste, not enough interaction between the players.

  3. 6 out of 10

    My first game left me with the feeling that some sort of streamlining was missing. It all felt familiar: decide what card to play, explore tiles, build stuff on them, move around, produce from factories and build stuff to protect against disasters. Add some gut punches to other players that they might take a while to recover from is a possibility here too. Yet, our game lasted way longer than it should have and for some reason, I can't put a finger on why that is (maybe the group had a moment that night, lol). When I first played Barrage, Dominant Species or other games of similar weight, they clicked and ticked along at a steady pace. Here, AP was so much higher that I'm hesitant to give it another go. Hmm.

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In Living Planet, each player represents one major Galactic Corporation exploiting the distant planet MYC.14.250. Each one of them is eager to industrialize the planet and generate as much profit as possible before the planet self-destructs.

To do so, you’ll have to explore the planet to grow the map. You’ll manage your team to extract resources with factory buildings you’ve built, and trade resources at the stock market to make money. And above anything else, you’ll have to handle cataclysms generated by the planet. But cataclysms don’t happen randomly, players trigger them through their actions, using their card set. Confrontation between players will take place through the planet.

Players will alternately take the leader role for each turn. Each turn follows a specific game turn sequence. Every player will have some actions to accomplish at a turn, in the order the Leader chooses, resolving the sequence : Resources production – Action (Explore, Move, Construct, Trade…) – Cataclysms.

At the end of the game each player will earn victory points based on how much money they have and how many buildings and vehicles they control.

—description from the publisher

Ages

14+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

30m – 120m
Designer

Christophe Boelinger
Mechanics

Area Majority / Influence, Hexagon Grid, Map Addition, Grid Movement, Hand Management, Modular Board, Tile Placement, Trading, Worker Placement
Theme

Economic, Environmental, Science Fiction
Publisher

Ludically
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