Forgotten Planet by Rio Grande Games

The Forgotten Planet is a tile-laying management game where tiles represent safe areas on a planetary surface, and robots walk and take other actions on these tiles. These tiles accumulate energy from the sun, which is then conducted to the robots, providing them (and the player) with more actions. Building and maintaining ownership of these tiles is fundamental to the game's strategy. Players and robots use this energy to construct new bases, discover mines, build walls to keep out other robots, push these walls out of the way, produce more robots, and much more. If a robot falls out of contact with the tiles a player controls, it loses power and becomes inactive for the round. Control of tiles is determined by the distance from a particular tile to each player's closest base. Whoever is closest to the tile, with walls serving as barriers that players must "walk" around while counting distance, controls it. The more tiles a player controls, the more energy they have available.

Players must maintain an energy connection for their robots while attempting to extend their area of control on the planet's surface with their bases. They must also control mines, as that is how a player produces new resources, which are subsequently converted into new bases, sold for victory points (VPs), or converted into new robots.

The game is for 2 to 4 players, with robots replacing humans, and they search, explore, and fight to control the precious minerals. The playtime is approximately 75 minutes. The Merchant Guild is willing to pay outrageous amounts of money, and all the Seekers roam about to find them. The search for energy crystals continues unabated throughout the universe, and the surface of the "forgotten planet" on the edge of the galaxy is full of them. In a few days, a new gold race will begin.

The game is available in multiple languages, including English, German, Italian, and Deutsch.

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