Genre: Engine Building, Card Management, Tile Placement. Oxygen, Temperature, and Oceans are the primary factors to forge a liveable environment, but how you get there is up to you. Terraforming Mars is a competitive engine-building and card management game for 1 to 5 players where corporations have to find ways to generate a variety of resources to help terraform the planet. The World Government offers generous funding to corporations that aid in the task of making the planet livable, and you want to ensure you have the biggest slice of that pie. You all may share the goal of Terraforming Mars, but you aren’t allies. You play as one of these corporations amid the terraforming effort alongside your friends. We all know those totally focus on sustainability and not short-term profits, right?…right? So it’s only natural that such an effort is spearheaded by a handful of wealthy corporations. Interested in a video version of this review? You can find it on my YouTube Channel! Colonizing the red planet requires the brightest minds, the most advanced technology, and the sternest of wills to persevere through the many generations of work it would take to create a new home by Terraforming Mars.
