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My humble attempt at painting SUSAN with space theme to get rid of the "cheap plastic look"

Upgraded SUSAN with custom tokenholders for Meteors and Biomass Patches. Helps with marking depots as well.

Painted Pieces, I finally finished painting this amazing game.

Planet Unknown at the SPIEL 2019 (Essen).

Planet Unknown (2022)

Players

1–6

Best: 4

Playing time

60–80 min

Age

10+

7.76

Average rating

14,723

Ratings

2.25/5

Weight

#168

BGG rank

Top 1,000

Alternate names:Az ismeretlen bolygó +11 more

Designer:Adam Rehberg, Ryan Lambert

Artist:Yoma

Publisher:Portal Games +13 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy10.0

Luck3.0

Interaction2.0

Complexity4.5

Theme4.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Science FictionPuzzleCity BuildingTerritory BuildingIndustry / ManufacturingSpace ExplorationTile PlacementVariable Player PowersSimultaneous Action SelectionOpen DraftingPattern BuildingNetwork and Route BuildingGrid MovementRondelSolo / Solitaire GameTurn Order: ProgressiveTech Trees / Tech TracksEventsEnd Game BonusesSudden Death EndingSquare GridMap AdditionGrid CoverageHidden Victory PointsTagsNeighbor Scope

Overview

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