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Power Grid: Factory Manager is the new stand-alone game in the world of Power Grid. It was released at Spiel '09 in Essen, Germany.
Each player owns a factory and tries to earn the most money during the game. To be successful, each player must use his workers to buy the best machines and robots at the market and to run the machines most effectively in his factory. Because of increasing energy prices, the players must be careful to check the energy consumption of their factories and to avoid using only energy-consuming machines. Otherwise, their profit will suddenly vanish, the worst fear of a good businessperson.
Power Grid: Factory Manager uses a clever market mechanism for choosing the supply of factory tiles in the market.
Part of the Power Grid family — see Power Grid for the combined view.
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- fantastic artwork by Mara Kosi
- doesn't feature trademark Friese elements
- no stack building
- no race mechanic
- little player interaction
- very little randomness
- dry optimization exercise
- lacks theme and personality
- economic
- factory_management
- optimization
- Power Grid
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- the whole game is a pad of paper it doesn't even come in a box
- It's a Party game but a very odd party game
- you're really really going to need the right group to play it
- it's something very odd and very unique
- Freedman fre is constantly revisiting old themes
- good fun game really good game
- this is frieza's other serious game along with power grid
- a meaty game it's got a ton of um strategy and tactical elements in it
- this is one of the best it's certainly the best stocks and shares game to play with two players
- the game has been practically killed off in its reputation because of its rule book
- this game is Pure Freedom and freeze
- this is very classic freeze
- an obscure game it's only available in German
- a very good very entertaining game with quite a lot of meat on it for for a simple card game
- it's a trick taking game at its simplest
- it's just an odd way of playing a card game a lot of fun though
- a straight up fairly you know um well cleverly designed fairly serious um two-player uh competitive card game
- it's um it's always nice when Freedman Freez is experimenting with uh different ideas