Customers say
Customers find this board game fun, particularly enjoying playing with two players, and appreciate how it adds complexity to the gameplay. The expansion is useful and works well for two players, with one customer noting it’s great for three-player games. They like the robots feature, with one mentioning they act as “dummy” players, though some find the game initially confusing and take time to learn.
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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:
This expansion adds a strong robot opponent to the game Power Grid.
With variable pieces creates over 7000 unique and challenging robot opponents
Components: 30 Robot piece tiles, 1 rulebook
This is an expansion only. You must have Power Grid, or Power Grid Recharged to play
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Joshua S
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Essential for 2-Player
Review: Power Grid suffers–ahem, used to suffer–when played with 2 players. Much of the competition is lost, since there is inherently less of a war for power plants, resources, and city placement. So what do you do when you want one of those exciting, cutthroat games that Power Grid is known for, but you don’t have enough players? Why, you build a player of course!Robots is an ingenious solution to the problems created from not having enough friends. Although they will not help you enhance your social skills or provide warm feelings, they can certainly make your low-attendance games of Power Grid more exciting!In a nutshell, this expansion allows you to create artificial “players” that take actions according to a set of predetermined rules. The robots participate fully in all elements of the game (auctioning, purchasing, building) and even have the ability to win, if you’re not careful. Robots are assembled by choosing one tile from each of five different groups of tiles that contain a variety of rules. The tile groups dictate:1) Where the robot will place its first city (for instance, “player auction”)2) How the robot will participate in power plant auctions (for instance, “bids for the highest numbered plant that uses the cheapest resource”)3) Which resources the robot will purchase (for instance, “purchases anything it can store that costs less than 5 electro”4) Where the robot will expand its network (for instance, “always makes the cheapest connection and cannot build through occupied cities”)5) What special ability the robot will have above all players (for instance, “builds 1 city for free each round”)And since there are 5 tiles in each group, not only is there practically endless variety, but you can play against up to 5 robots in a game.The robots follow the same set of decision-making rules for the entirety of the game, no matter the circumstances–and frequently, they make stupid decisions. Strategic players will learn to use this to their advantage. But most of the time, the robots are “intelligent” enough to be a thorn in your side and a challenge to overcome. All of a sudden, your 2-player (or even 1-player!) game can become the fight to the finish that it was meant to be.
Reviewer: Kim L.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great expansion for 2 or 3 player games
Review: If you mainly play Power Grid with less than four people, you may have found competition to be a little bit stale. I usually play in two-player games and I have my opponent figured out after the first few rounds. A drawback of the original game is the lack of dynamics with a small number of players. I feel this expansion solves this issue. The addition of the robots adds more complexity to the overall game, increasing the participation to all aspects of the game. Power Grid plays well with four players, and adding the robots to make a four player game creates a more challenging and fun time. Since we purchased the robots to make four player games, I have been playing this game almost every night for the last few weeks.As with all parts of the Power Grid universe, the instructions can be a bit confusing. But once you are able to comprehend what the instructions say, the robots easily make up for it with it’s ease of use. Just randomly put all the parts for a robot together, setup another player, and you have another competitor for plants, resources, and houses.
Reviewer: Skeptic
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Solitaire Power Grid
Review: This is a great expansion to Power Grid. The robots act as “dummy” players and add a nice tension to the game (see product description for how the robots work). They aren’t easy to beat either. I have played a few games alone, with 2 robots, to make it a tight 3 player game, and had a lot of fun. I was initially hesitant about the bidding phase using the robots, because one of the best parts of this game is trying to outbid your friends for plants you want, but that element isn’t thrown off too much. The robots will still give you some competition in the bidding war. Overall, this is probably one of the best expansions to get for Power Grid.
Reviewer: John Bruns
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Add a Robot to spice up your two player game
Review: This really makes the two player game a bit more like the standard game. The two player variant in Power Grid works, but always feels lacking. The robot adds a third player that gets in the human players way and adds the bit of randomness that is lacking in a two player game. I have tried playing solitaire with two robots, and it works, but is quite a bit of work and the robots are easy to out maneuver as their battle plan, so to speak is written on their exterior. The real advantage is with two players. The rules say they can be added to games with more than two to add an extra player, and while I think it would work well, I have not tried that option.
Reviewer: Matt J
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Like a crash test dummy
Review: This is a great way to add an extra player to a game of Powergrid. You can basically build a player, and make it as challenging as you want by establishing rules that the robot has to follow. It’s a great idea, well-executed, and as innovative as anything could be. The only downside, though, doesn’t have to do with the way the product is built, marketed, packaged, or anything like that. It takes practice to use well. Most of the time, the robot becomes a punching bag for my friends and I. When it does work, the robot destroys us.
Reviewer: J. Heddings
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: but the robots instead act more like a passive player
Review: This is an okay expansion for the game Power Grid. I was hoping for something to give a bit more suspense to the game, but the robots instead act more like a passive player.
Reviewer: P. Clark
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great expansion especially when playing with 2-3 players.
Review: We have been Loving playing with the robots. We frequently play as a 2-player with one added robot. Got in 2 games with 3+ a robot. Would be interested to try more than on in play, but it adds interesting mechanics and some random elements to the game. It is especially useful in expanding playable territory for an otherwise limited games. Initially took a few read-throughs to understand implementing the robot rules at each step, but I don’t think it slows down the game play more than adding another Human. After understanding the rules, the robot is a speedy additional player.
Reviewer: Randy A.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: We own a number of board games of all types, but mostly we play Eurogames such as Power Grid. This particular game is one of the best we have played. It is fairly straightforward and has some neat mechanics to keep the game flowing and to ensure that players are kept in balance. We play it with 3 or 4 players ages 15 and up. Highly recommended.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great
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