Game Info
Year
2024
Players
3-4
Age
14+
Playtime
90 min
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Description
Standalone CATAN game with energy management where players build power plants and choose between fossil fuels and renewables
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Thematic elements
- energy production and environmental impact
- a newly discovered Island
Comparison games
- Katon
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Building roads, towns, and cities — Spend resources to build roads; place towns and upgrade towns to cities.
- City upgrade rules and power plant attachment — Cities replace towns; upgrading yields more points/resources; power plants attach to the city’s tile.
- Development cards types — Progress developments, Victory Point cards, and Cleanup cards with various effects.
- End game and scoring — End conditions include reaching 10 points, or bag depletion, or end by comparing renewable vs fossil plants.
- end game bonuses — End conditions include reaching 10 points, or bag depletion, or end by comparing renewable vs fossil plants.
- engine building — Build fossil fuel or renewable power plants; power plants generate energy tokens when tiles produce.
- Environmental footprint and hazard tokens — Track local/global footprint, use the environmental inspector, and place hazard tokens that affect production.
- Event phase and bag mechanics — Draw tokens from a bag according to the event track; place hazards and trigger effects.
- hand management — If a seven is rolled, players discard down to eight or fewer cards unless usingWarehouse.
- Hand management and seven/discard rule — If a seven is rolled, players discard down to eight or fewer cards unless usingWarehouse.
- Harbors and special trading rules — Harbors modify trading options when towns are on harbors.
- Inspector theft mechanic — The environmental inspector can move and steal a card from a neighboring player; cannot steal development cards.
- Longest Trade Route — First to complete a continuous road of five road pieces earns the Longest Trade Route tile for 2 VP.
- Pollution and environmental effects — Pollution raises local/global footprint; removing pollution lowers footprint.
- Power plants and energy — Build fossil fuel or renewable power plants; power plants generate energy tokens when tiles produce.
- Production phase with dice — Roll dice to determine which tiles produce; resources and energy are yielded for adjacent towns/cities.
- Purchasing developments — Spend resources to buy development cards; play at most one development per turn unless you gained it previously.
- Resource gathering and trading — Players collect Lumber, Brick, Natural Fiber, Food, Steel, and Energy tokens, and trade with other players and the supply.
- Resource management — Players collect Lumber, Brick, Natural Fiber, Food, Steel, and Energy tokens, and trade with other players and the supply.
- Trading — Trade with other players and with the supply; four of a kind can be traded for any one resource; three science cards for any resource.
- Trading economy — Trade with other players and with the supply; four of a kind can be traded for any one resource; three science cards for any resource.
- Warehouse rule and warehouse benefit — Warehouse alters discard rules and can mitigate card loss under certain hand-size conditions.
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- be the first to have 10 points on your turn and you win
- the game ends when you would need to draw an event disc from the bag but it's empty
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