Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Build a corrupt colony, manipulate elections, and pocket public money before Planet B repeats Earth’s mistakes.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Planet B is a satirical strategy game about governors rebuilding civilization with exactly the wrong incentives. On a turn, a worker visits a conglomerate card and unlocks a sequence of actions: collect resources, recruit population, construct buildings, influence factions, control the news, or turn public money into private black money. As more workers gather at a conglomerate, additional actions become available, so timing and competition reshape the market. Elections periodically make one governor president, granting the power to enact laws that change the rules for everyone. Buildings develop a personal engine, faction tracks reward political positioning, and money literally placed in your pocket becomes victory points. The result is an interactive worker-placement game where every efficient plan is entangled with bribery, media manipulation, and darkly comic consequences.