Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Discovery · Foundations · Crisis

What is Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition – Discovery · Foundations · Crisis

In, Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition: Crisis, players will play as corporations, just as in the original Ares Expedition. You choose phases and play project cards as normal. The difference is players are working together to keep Mars habitable after a natural disaster has landed the planet in crisis. Every round, a new Crisis card will be drawn that will require the players to achieve a certain goal to remove that crisis from play. Each turn that a Crisis card is not completely dealt with, it will lower one or more of the terraforming metrics that keep Mars habitable.

Handle all the crises as they arise. Eventually, a Crisis card will be drawn that allows the players to win the game once they have completed re-terraforming Mars.

Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition: Discovery adds four new mechanics to base Ares Expedition: awards, milestones, upgraded phase cards, and wild tags.

Awards are end of game scoring that are granted to the player with the most of something. Three awards are drawn at the beginning of the game so that players know what they will be rewarded for at the end of the game. The player with the most of that item earns 5VP, second place earns 2VP.

Game details

Players

1–6

Age

+14

Duration

60 min

Difficulty

Medium

Type

Expansion

Year

2023

Mechanics

Cooperative Game · Follow · Hand Management

Categories

Expansion for Base-game · Card Game · Science Fiction

Designer

Sydney Engelstein · Jacob Fryxelius · Nick Little (I)

Publisher

FryxGames · Stronghold Games