We played Planet Steam and were very poor all game, with low prices for goods. Lance and I came bottom equal.
John R 644
Brandon 636
Lance 583
Ian 583
It is long and has lots of number crunching. It also felt a bit like trying to think through some game theory type problems (like deciding whether other people will sell or not). On the whole it was better than I was expecting, but my expectations were low (I knew about the length and the number crunching aspect). May be it is too early to judge but the game felt a bit narrow to me (narrow in terms of viable choices and interesting things to do). But I wasn't bored. I liked the market mechanism, even if it was a bit fiddly. It is a better market than Power Grid and much better than Cuba's. The manipulations remind me of Gigantum, even though it works completely differently.
Overall I would say Power Grid and Age of Steam more fun. Which reminds me I need to re-rate a bunch of games on BGG.
