M.U.L.E

M.U.L.E. was first published as a computer game in 1983. Inspired by board games, it became a breakthrough, then a classic. Now this warm-hearted game of cut-throat capitalism will finally become available as a board game!

You are one of the pioneering and industrious species of a Galactic Federation . Together with your fellow colonists, you attempt to settle the distant Planet Irata with the so-called help of a mule-like machine you all learn to hate.
But for now, he's all you've got. He and your fellow colonists. I wouldn't count on their help, though. Not unless there's profit.

Good luck. You'll need it.