Power Grid: Outpost cover
2024BGG rank #4,955

Power Grid: Outpost

by Friedemann Friese · 2F-Spiele

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Players2–6
Time90–120m
ComplexityMedium
Age12+

About the game

What is Power Grid: Outpost?

In Power Grid: Outpost, the colonization of the new planet advances quickly. There is a huge demand for electricity that your companies gladly fulfill. Can you purchase the best power plants, biggest shelters, and best technologies? Can you spread your network faster from city to city than your competition? Do you expand your company economically to accommodate workers permanently so that you can avoid employing expensive seasonal workers that you must dismiss to the labor market after each assignment? Only then you can win Power Grid: Outpost! Outpost was one of the major inspirations for Power Grid as that game was far ahead of its time. More than twenty years after the first release of Power Grid, Friedemann wants to honor Outpost with this game. He took many thematic elements of that game and translated them to the Power Grid world. —description from the publisher

How it plays

Mechanics

Auction / BiddingAuction: Turn Order Until PassCatch the LeaderIncomeMarketNetwork and Route BuildingTurn Order: Stat-BasedVariable Set-up

On the shelf

Categories

EconomicIndustry / ManufacturingScience Fiction

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