Compete with rival CEOs to make Mars habitable and build your corporate empire!
Behold the game that has won more than 30 worldwide awards over the last 8 years: Available now for you to play anywhere on Earth, on Board Game Arena.
In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things.
The players acquire unique project cards (from over two hundred different ones) by buying them to their hand. The cards can give you immediate bonuses, as well as increasing your production of different resources. Many cards also have requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen, or ocean coverage increases enough. Buying cards is costly, so there is a balance between buying cards and actually playing them. Standard Projects are always available to complement your cards. Your basic income, as well as your basic score, is based on your Terraform Rating. However, your income is complemented with your production, and you also get VPs from many other sources.
Each player keeps track of their production and resources on their player boards, and the game uses six types of resources: MegaCredits, Steel, Titanium, Plants, Energy, and Heat. On the game board, you compete for the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles, and greenery tiles. You also compete for different Milestones and Awards worth many VPs. Each round is called a generation and consists of the following phases:
- 1: Player order shifts clockwise.
- 2: Research phase: All players buy cards from four privately drawn.
- 3: Action phase: Players take turns doing 1-2 actions from these options: Playing a card, claiming a Milestone, funding an Award, using a Standard project, converting plant into greenery tiles (and raising oxygen), converting heat into a temperature raise, and using the action of a card in play. The turn continues around the table (sometimes several laps) until all players have passed.
- 4: Production phase: Players get resources according to their terraform rating and production parameters.
You can play it from your phone, tablet, computer, or any web-enabled browser by clicking this link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=terraformingmars
Don't forget to read the rules first, or watch a game in progress.
You will also have some choices to display the game up to your desires, and then play it comfortably from your device.
And you can even play it on your own to get the hang of it!
It's a very huge release, and we would love to thank the publisher, FryxGames, as well as the game designer Jacob Fryxelius, without whom this would not have been possible.
And finally, we should definitely thank and send kudos to Victoria_La and darhf for their huge contributions by developing the game for our platform.
We told you, that's a big week on #BGA!
And there's more to come...
Anyway, that's it for today. See you next week and until then,
Take care and play fair!
