Project Planet: Earth Vs. Humanity

Project Planet: Earth Vs. Humanity is a strategic party game for up to six players, with one player as Planet Earth and up to five others taking on roles in humanity. Earth triggers disasters to destroy humanity and ensure its own survival, while the human players try to survive. Their choices create branching narratives, with different paths through each game.

Earth’s disasters

As Planet Earth, you trigger events that damage ecosystems and increase pollution, making the planet unliveable. Earth’s threats are based on real-world dangers and include virus outbreaks, locust plagues and asteroid impacts.

Humanity’s roles

The other players take one of five roles, each with distinct gameplay:

• World Leaders: create laws and regulations for the others to follow. In response to a virus, they can choose global lockdowns, partial lockdowns or no lockdown. Before an asteroid impact, they can evacuate the public by force, risking revolt, or preserve people’s free will.
• Industry: manage corporations and the economy. They decide whether staff work remotely to limit a virus’s spread, go to the office to limit productivity losses or choose for themselves. They can also hire scientists to research ways to lower emissions or prioritize profits.
• Scientists: spend resources on research to find solutions to humanity’s struggles. Spending more raises the chance of success but lowers their influence.
• Media: report news to inform the other players, choosing whether to keep coverage truthful or sensationalize events for clicks. They can praise or criticize Industry’s decisions, or focus on other stories.
• Public: represent everyday citizens. They decide whether to follow virus safety guidelines, enter an asteroid impact zone to help others or leave rescue to emergency workers. Their choices also shape whether they rise up in revolt.

Choices and cooperation

Players face dilemmas with real-world parallels, weighing the greater good against their own interests. Abilities let them cooperate with others or punish those who act against the group’s interests or their own. Players work together, but also pursue individual goals; there can be only one winner. Branching narratives mean decisions lead humanity down different paths, so no two games are the same.