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Terraforming Mars

Compete to transform Mars into a habitable world through strategic resource management and project execution.

2016
Community verdict Loved 100% positive 1 verdict
Drafting Economic Engine builder Sci-Fi Space Exploration Strategic Tactical Tile placement

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You may like this if you enjoy…

  • Long-arc planning where early choices pay off late
  • Short-horizon optimization and clever combos
  • Far-future and space setting
  • Charting unknown space

You may not like this if…

  • You prefer games under an hour

Terraforming Mars is a 2016 board game for 1 to 5 players, ages 12 and up. A typical game runs 90 to 120 minutes and plays at medium complexity. It was designed by Jacob Fryxelius and published by FryxGames.

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In 'Terraforming Mars,' players assume the roles of competing corporations working to make Mars habitable by raising its temperature, increasing oxygen levels, and creating oceans. Through strategic card play and resource management, players develop projects and infrastructure to advance these terraforming goals. The game concludes when all terraforming parameters are met, and the player with the highest score, reflecting their contributions to the terraforming process, wins.

Designed by

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Jacob Fryxelius

Artwork by

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Isaac Fryxelius

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