The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire

About this board game

The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire is a strategy board game for 1–5 players, with an approximate play time of 120 minutes, set in the atomic age of the latter 20th century.

Each player leads a nation struggling for power after the war. Develop your industry, commerce, and government by acquiring resources, building structures, and tapping different sources of energy.

Energy Empire combines worker placement, tableau building, and resource management. On each turn, choose whether to work or generate. A work turn lets you place one worker on the main board, then use workers and energy to activate cards in your tableau.

• Spend energy to use an occupied main-board space, so spaces are never completely blocked.
• Generate energy by rolling dice representing nuclear, coal, oil, solar, and other energy sources.
• Use science to mitigate the harmful effects of industry and help avert global crises.

Progress comes with consequences. As your nation becomes more industrious, it also increases the amount of pollution in the environment, forcing you to consider the wider impact of your decisions.

Oil prices are rising, nuclear energy promises the future, and careful management is essential. Set in the same universe as The Manhattan Project but designed as a standalone game, The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire challenges players to build national power while responding to uncertain global impacts.