Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game
All the excitement of colonizing Mars, distilled into dice and cards you can play through in under an hour.
Who it's for
Terraforming Mars fans who want that same colonization itch scratched in 45 minutes, and duos looking for a meaty two-player science fiction game.
Not for you if…
You want the full-size game's sprawling tableau and dozens of cards on the table at once, because this version trims Mars down on purpose.
Vibe's take
brisk, tactile, strategic, satisfying, compact
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About this game
Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game takes the beloved corporation-building epic and squeezes it into a box of dice and cards you can finish in 45 minutes. Instead of a sprawling tableau, your dice are your resources: roll them on a production turn, then spend them on an action turn to play cards, raise oxygen, nudge the temperature up, or drop an ocean tile. Terraforming pays real victory points, tiles and cards pay more, and Awards and Milestones reward whoever specialized hardest. The moment two of the three global parameters max out, the game ends and the greenest colonizer wins. All the tension of the original, none of the three-hour commitment.
Get it
from $39
By the numbers
Players
Duration
45 min
Ages 12+
Complexity
2.4 / 5 — LightBGG Rating
6.6/10
Rank #1,032
4.7k ratings
Published
2023
Language
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