Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition (SV)

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is an engine-building game where players control interplanetary corporations with the goal of making Mars habitable (and profitable). You do this by investing mega credits (MC) into project cards that directly or indirectly contribute to the terraforming process. To win, you'll want to accumulate a high terraform rating (TR) and as many victory points (VP) as possible. Players raise their TR by increasing global parameters: oceans, oxygen, and temperature. TR also determines each corporation's basic income, and at the end of the game, TR counts as VP. Additional VP and production capabilities are awarded for building project cards and other actions taken during the game.

The game is played in rounds, and each round players choose one of five phases, which determines the activities for that round. This means every round is different and can consist of building new project cards, taking general and project-specific actions, producing income and resources (plants and heat), or researching to draw more project cards. Every player takes all the phases selected for the round and receives a special bonus during the phase they selected. To speed up the game, players can act simultaneously within each phase without waiting for each other!

The game board has tracks for oxygen, temperature, and terraform rating, as well as a place for all the ocean tiles that will be flipped over the course of the game. The game ends when there is enough oxygen to breathe (14%), enough oceans to allow Earth-like weather (9), and the temperature is well above freezing (+8°C). It will then be possible, if not comfortable, to live on the surface of Mars!

The winner is the player with the most VP at the end of the game.

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240st 64x89mm
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