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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. 9 out of 10

    An incredible resource management gaming platform! The core game is intricate and thrilling enough, but combined with the included expansions, you have endless permutations for scenarios, which you could also create yourself. Production is top notch and the artwork absolutely beautiful. You sometimes forget yourself just staring at and admiring the components. The game itself is a challenging race for resources and good deals in a hostile environment, with a dash of take that. The immersion is palpable, and you truly feel like the planet is trying to kill you while you are trying to figure out a way to make the best out of your limited resources. This game is for the connoisseurs rather than for those seeking quick, easy, and forgettable experiences.

  2. 7 out of 10

    Tile placement, exploration, building production buildings then trying to dodge cataclysmic events. Like villages of valeria / catan with building selection that then pairs with production (although with dice selection rather than rolling). Very important market element - conversion of dollars into points is a massive strategy, to the point of where the upfront game is less of a focus.

  3. 10 out of 10

    Removes the one awkward part of Archipelago; The racism. It's a fairly deep game with plenty of think. Good components and the dice are nice. Its my favourite worker placement/economy manager. Theme is on point.

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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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