Planet Unknown

(2022)

Game poster

Details

Year published
2022
Designer
Ryan Lambert
Adam Rehberg
Artists
Yoma
Player count
1 - 6
Publisher
Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Boardgame Mall
CrowD Games
Fox in the Box
Gém Klub Kft.
Joy Town Games
Maldito Games
Origames
Portal Games
Strohmann Games
Mechanics
Events
Grid Coverage
Hidden Victory Points
Map Addition
Network and Route Building
Open Drafting
Pattern Building
Rondel
Simultaneous Action Selection
Square Grid
Sudden Death Ending
Tags
Tech Trees / Tech Tracks
Tile Placement
Turn Order: Progressive
Variable Player Powers

Our planet has run out of resources, and we are forced to move. We have discovered a series of planets and sent our rovers to test their environment with the hope of colonization. Our rovers have confirmed 1-6 viable colonization options. Planet Unknown is a competitive game for 1-6 players in which players attempt to develop the best planet. Each round, each player places one polyomino-shaped, dual-resource tile on their planet. Each resource represents the infrastructure needed to support life on the planet. Every tile placement is important to cover your planet efficiently and also to build up your planet's engine. After placing the tile, players do two actions associated with the two infrastructure types on the tile. Some tile placements trigger "meteors" that make all planets harder to develop and prevent them from scoring points in the meteor's row and column. Planet Unknown innovates on the popular polyomino trend by allowing simultaneous, yet strategic turn-based play via the Lazy S.U.S.A.N. space station in the center of the table. —description from the publisher