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2022 Ranked #3,800

Planet B

Humanity found a new planet and brought every old mistake along. Build, campaign, legislate, and make sure the public money ends up in your pocket.

Humor Political Worker Placement Voting

Players

2-4

Play time

60-180 min

Age

14+

Complexity

3.18/5

Rating

7.16

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.5/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.5/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.5/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.3/5

Deep strategy

Player control 4.0/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 15 min
Teach time About 25 min
Table footprint Very Large
Campaign commitment No campaign
Recommended edition Planet B – Z-Man Games English Edition (2022)
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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.

Read the full game description

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.

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Editions

Language and publisher variants currently recorded in the catalog.

Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Planet B – Z-Man Games English Edition (2022) 2022 English Z-Man Games / US

Game and edition data

All specifications (18)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Play time
60–180 min
Age
14+
Complexity
3.2/5
App
None app

Practicalities

Setup time
About 15 min
Teach time
About 25 min
Teardown time
About 15 min
Table footprint
Very Large

Campaign and continuity

Campaign commitment
No campaign
Group continuity
Flexible
Resettable
Fully Resettable

Edition and product

Recommended edition
Planet B – Z-Man Games English Edition (2022)
Language
English
Region
US
Availability
Current
Edition type
Standard
Current edition
Yes
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Johannes Natterer

Artists

4
Marcel Gröber Dennis Lohausen Ingram Schell Franz-Georg Stämmele

Publishers

1
Hans im Glück

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