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Add to SafariTerraforming Mars is a strategy board game. In the far future, corporations are terraforming Mars in order to make it habitable. Each player chooses their own corporation to represent, and you all compete against each other to be the first to transform Mars into a hospitable environment by raising three global parameters: oxygen, ocean coverage, and temperature.
During gameplay, players purchase project cards using the in-game currency known as megacredits. These cards represent over 200 different terraforming projects from introducing plant or animal life, putting up cities, establishing greenhouse gas based industries to heat up the atmosphere, and more. These card provide immediate bonuses and also increase your capacity to produce resources: megacredits, steel, titanium, plants, energy and heat.
The corporation that is the first to successfully terraform the planet by raising the three global parameters to their goal is the winner.
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Pros
Pro Huge amount of strategy
Juggling your resources, money, and production against your opponent's actions as you try to satisfy the win conditions (getting the oxygen, temperature, and ocean coverage to their desired levels) can be pretty intense. Always having to think several turns ahead will definitely appeal to people who like a game that makes them strategize and prioritize. Choosing which cards to buy each round, what to spend your resources on, and how to terraform the planet without giving too much leeway to your opponents creates plenty of situations to outplay others.
Cons
Con Games can feel very long and drawn out
The sheer amount of things that need to be tracked is fairly high, and continually grows in complexity as the game goes on. Keeping track of cards in play, actions, awards, milestones, map, resources, money, etc. can lead to some intense calculations. Most players will want to carefully ponder their strategy each turn, and the end result is a game that often seems like it comes to a grinding halt.
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