The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire

Set up the game by placing the main board in the center of the play area. Each player receives a player mat, workers, and starting resources. Shuffle and place the various decks of cards (structure cards, global impact cards) and tokens (pollution tokens, energy dice) in their designated areas on or near the main board. Ensure all resource piles and the score track are ready for play.

The primary objective in The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire is to accumulate the most victory points (VP) by the end of the game. Players achieve this by building structures, generating energy, and managing their environmental impact. The player who best balances their energy empire's growth with environmental responsibility will emerge victorious.

On your turn, you must choose one of two main actions: 'Work' or 'Generate'. If you 'Work', you place one of your workers on an available space on the main board or on one of your acquired structure cards. If a space already has workers, you must place a taller stack of workers and energy to claim it. After placing a worker, you activate the corresponding action. If you 'Generate', you first optionally claim achievements, then retrieve all your workers from the main board and structures, discard any remaining energy, and roll all your acquired energy dice to gain new energy resources for your player mat. You also check for pollution based on the highest rolled die.

Victory points are primarily scored at the end of the game. You gain VPs for achievements claimed during 'Generate' turns, which reward you for having certain numbers of workers or energy. Additionally, you score VPs for each unpolluted space in your environment on your player mat. Structures you've built also contribute VPs, as indicated on their cards. The Global Impact cards, triggered throughout the game, may also introduce specific scoring conditions or penalties related to environmental pollution or market prices.

The game concludes immediately when the final pollution token is removed from any of the six stacks on the Global Impact track. Once this happens, players proceed to final scoring. All victory points from structures, achievements, and unpolluted environment spaces are tallied. The player with the highest total victory points is declared the winner of The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire.