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tag: 🎲BG
created: 2023-05-07 @ 00:19:43
updated: 2023-05-07 @ 00:19:43
playcount: 0
id: 167791
name: "Terraforming Mars"
rating: 8.38
cover: https://cf.geekdo-images.com/wg9oOLcsKvDesSUdZQ4rxw__original/img/thIqWDnH9utKuoKVEUqveDixprI=/0x0/filters:format(jpeg)/pic3536616.jpg
published: 2016
minPlayer: 1
maxPlayer: 5
suggestedPlayers: 3
minAge: 12
suggestedAge: 12
gameDuration: 120
languageLevel: 79
categories: [Economic, Environmental, Industry / Manufacturing, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Territory Building]
mechanics: [Closed Drafting, Contracts, Enclosure, End Game Bonuses, Hand Management, Hexagon Grid, Income, Set Collection, Solo / Solitaire Game, Tags, Take That, Tech Trees / Tech Tracks, Tile Placement, Turn Order: Progressive, Variable Player Powers, Variable Set-up, Victory Points as a Resource]
families: [Category: Dized Tutorial, Components: Map (Global Scale), Components: Multi-Use Cards, Digital Implementations: Google Play, Digital Implementations: Steam, Game: Terraforming Mars, Mechanism: Tableau Building, Players: Games with Solitaire Rules, Setting: Future Timeline (Fryxgames), Space: Earth's Solar System, Space: Jupiter, Space: Mars, Theme: Science]
expansions: [French Championship Promo Cards (fan expansion for Terraforming Mars), Meeple BR Jogos Promo Pack #1, Terraforming Mars: 16 Psyche Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Asteroid Rights Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Atmo Collectors Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Bactoviral Research Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: BGG User-Created Corporation Pack, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Terraforming Mars: Big Box Promo Pack, Terraforming Mars: Bio Printing Facility Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Colonies, Terraforming Mars: Corporate Archives Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Double Down Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Harvest Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Head Start Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium, Terraforming Mars: Jovian Lanterns Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Lunar Exports Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Merger Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: New Partner Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Outdoor Sports Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Penguins Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Prelude, Terraforming Mars: Robot Pollinators Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Self-Replicating Robots Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Small Asteroid Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Snow Algae Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Terra Cimmeria, Terraforming Mars: Turmoil, Terraforming Mars: Turmoil Promos, Terraforming Mars: Utopia Planitia, Terraforming Mars: Vastitas Borealis, Terraforming Mars: Venus Next]
accessories: [Terraforming Mars: reDrewno Insert, Terraforming Mars: BGExpansions Astronaut Track Token Pack, Terraforming Mars: BGExpansions Draft Coin, Terraforming Mars: BGExpansions Track Tokens, Terraforming Mars: BoardGameBoost Player Mat Overlay, Terraforming Mars: Broken Token 3D Greenery Hex Tiles, Terraforming Mars: Broken Token 3D Ocean Hex Tiles, Terraforming Mars: Broken Token 3D Space Colony Hex Tiles, Terraforming Mars: Broken Token Acrylic Overlay, Terraforming Mars: Broken Token Acrylic Token Set, Terraforming Mars: Broken Token Organizer with First Player Token and Acrylic Markers, Terraforming Mars: Broken Token Organizer – Extra Dividers, Terraforming Mars: Broken Token Single Player Tray, Terraforming Mars: Broken Token Space Colony City Hex Tiles, Terraforming Mars: City Domes, Terraforming Mars: Custom Card Sleeves, Terraforming Mars: Dual Layer Player Boards, Terraforming Mars: e-Raptor Insert, Terraforming Mars: e-Raptor Organizer, Terraforming Mars: Eightbitwood Player Mat Overlay, Terraforming Mars: Elysium – Big Board Edition, Terraforming Mars: Eurohell Design 3D Tokens, Terraforming Mars: Folded Space Insert, Terraforming Mars: Folded Space Insert (Second edition), Terraforming Mars: Game Trayz Player Mat, Terraforming Mars: Gathering of Friends Promo Card, Terraforming Mars: Hellas – Big Board Edition, Terraforming Mars: Insert Here Insert, Terraforming Mars: Laserox Resource Tokens, Terraforming Mars: Laserox Resource Tokens II, Terraforming Mars: Laserox Terraformer's Toolbox Insert, Terraforming Mars: Laserox Tokens, Terraforming Mars: Meeple Realty Insert, Terraforming Mars: Metal Resource Cubes, Terraforming Mars: Moedas & Co. Metal Coins, Terraforming Mars: Player Mat Overlay, Terraforming Mars: Player Mat Overlay with Backboard, Terraforming Mars: Rover First Player Marker, Terraforming Mars: Shipshape Gamer Player Mat Overlay, Terraforming Mars: Spike Craft Insert, Terraforming Mars: Tharsis – Big Board Edition, Terraforming Mars: The GiftForge Icon counter, Terraforming Mars: The GiftForge Insert, Terraforming Mars: The GiftForge Player board, Terraforming Mars: The GiftForge Tokens, Terraforming Mars: Tower Rex Organizer, Terraforming Mars: Trade Fleets & Chairman Seat, Terraforming Mars: Turmoil – The GiftForge Committee board]
implementations: [Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game]
designers: [Jacob Fryxelius]
artists: [Isaac Fryxelius]
originalPublisher: FryxGames
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#boardgame

# Terraforming Mars

## ℹ️ About

> 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 projects (cards) can represent anything from introducing plant life or animals, hurling asteroids at the surface, building cities, to mining the moons of Jupiter and establishing greenhouse gas industries to heat up the atmosphere. 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 (3 megacredits per card) and actually playing them (which can cost anything between 0 to 41 megacredits, depending on the project). Standard Projects are always available to complement your cards.

Your basic income, as well as your basic score, is based on your Terraform Rating (starting at 20), which increases every time you raise one of the three global parameters (which are temperature, oxygen, and ocean coverage). 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 (guess why) 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.

When the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen, ocean) have all reached their goal, the terraforming is complete, and the game ends after that generation. Count your Terraform Rating and other VPs to determine the winning corporation!



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