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Forgotten Planet, The

By: Rio Grande Games

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: Board Games - Science Fiction & Fantasy (Rio Grande Games)

MSRP old price: $59.95


Product Info

Title
Forgotten Planet, The
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Michele Quondam
Publish Year
2012
Dimensions
8.5x12x2.25"
NKG Part #
2147467208
MFG. Part #
RGGA40
Type
Boxed Game
Age Range
12 Years and Up
# Players
2 - 4 Players
Game Length
75 Minutes

Description

The Forgotten Planet is a tile-laying management game in which tiles represent safe areas on a planetary surface on which robots walk and take other actions. These tiles also accumulate energy from the sun, then conduct it to robots, giving them (and the player) more actions if they absorb enough energy so building and maintaining ownership of these tiles is fundamental in the game strategy. Players and robots use this energy to build new bases, discover mines, build walls to keep out other robots, push those same walls out of the way, produce more robots and much more.

If your robot falls out of contact with tiles you control, however, then it loses power and falls 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, and the more tiles you control, the more energy you have available to you.

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