Manhattan Project: Energy Empire

From Frost Bite Games:

A new Edition of a modern classic! 

One of the best-regarded modern board games returns with a new look, beautiful components, and all-new expansion content! Includes all the gameplay of the original edition, as well as the 'Cold War' expansion, the new 'UN Envoys expansion', and more!

Energy Empire is a sequel to the celebrated Manhattan Project in which you build power plants, not bombs!

• Celebrated game Play
• Multiple expansions and variants
• Two ways to Play solo
• Thematically rich
• Challenging and Deep
• Great components
• Worker Placement
• Engine Building
• Resource management

Each player takes control of a nation struggling for power in the latter part of the 20th century. They build up their nation's industry, commerce, and government by acquiring resources, building tructures, and tapping sources of energy. The price of oil is going up, and nuclear energy is the wave of the future.

The major threat in Energy Empire is not war, but uncertain global impacts, that result from side effects of industrialization and pollution. Many actions come with a cost. So, as nations become more industrious, they also increase the amount of pollution in the environment. Careful use of science can mitigate the harmful effects of industry, and can also help avert global crises.

Energy Empire uses worker placement, tableau-building, and resource management mechanics. On each turn, a player can choose to either work or generate. On a work turn, a player plays a single worker on the main board, then uses workers and energy to activate cards in their tableau. Players may spend energy to use an occupied space on the main board, so no spaces are ever completely blocked. On a generate turn, players get to renew their supply of energy by rolling "energy dice" that represent nuclear, coal, oil, solar, and other forms of energy.