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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. 2 out of 10

    Is this game supposed to be fun?! Our play went something like this my turn: build (on one of my actions) Other players turn: destroy what I build my next turn: build again Other players turn: destroy again what I build my turn: you get the idea So much fun! Mind you, I only played this game once so there is probably a better way to play this game but I have no desire to play this ever again.

  2. 4 out of 10

    These kickstarter games tend to be beautiful with horribly written rulebooks. The setup time and incredibly dense rulebook are not worth the below average gameplay. You can tell love was put into this game, but it is bland.

  3. 6 out of 10

    As we started to play I thought, I'm liking this already! Tremendous production quality throughout (this was the deluxe version). We loved the chunky hexagonal terrain tiles and the other game tiles. Straightforward rules and gameplay so we were quickly under way. But three things made the game become more dispiriting than fun for me. One was that the graphics on the hex tiles can be really difficult to discern. The dice images use a funky font showing a number which isn't always clear, which is a minor nuisance - but worse was that it was very easy to miss which of the three cataclysms they relate to. Consequently one player built three buildings on a tile and protected them from earthquakes, believing the three cataclysm graphics on it to be earthquakes. A little later he played his own die which triggered this tile's cataclysms - and his colour graphic on the tile was pointed out to him to be the tornado. So he had unnecessarily wounded two of his own men and lost control of one of his buildings which was promptly taken by another player... Another disappointment was caused by a lot of bad luck. On another day probably the luck would even out but that didn't change the impact a run of bad luck had on our enjoyment. This involved multiple explorations to try to find the resource type needed, yet none of the first 9 tiles I drew had it. Then when a tile was eventually drawn with the needed resource, it couldn't be legally added to the existing tiles. The final thing making the game tiresome was the constant wounding that other players did to your men. This meant you constantly needed to get mushrooms to revive or replace them, which is where many of your two precious actions per turn were spent. I tried to protect mine from earthquakes but needed the red resource which was too expensive for me to buy so I tried exploring for it, which was the start of the perpetual exploration failure... We played for 4 hours, including setup and going over the rules. We didn't pursue the Take That possibilities but were aware you could play this in a confrontational way if you wanted to, by deliberately causing cataclysms that target opponents.

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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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