“Spyrium”
designed by William Attia, published by Ystari Games
Become a steampunk industrialist using the newly discovered element spyrium. Locations providing special powers and actions are placed in a grid on the table with space between them. Place workers between two different locations you need: build buildings, hire workers, patent techniques. The trick is, the more demand for that thing (that is, as more people place workers around a location), the price goes up. Build up your mines and factories to earn you spyrium and then transform that spyrium and workers into victory points.
Putting the workers between two locations really opens up the possibilities and makes it so that when someone takes an action you also want not so bad. Worker placement and engine building fun. As with other worker placement games, awards careful planning and long-range thinking.