Unfortunately, all this environment-manipulating fun means that Terraforming Mars requires approximately one gazillion tiny cubes (figures may be rounded) to keep track of everything from how much heat you’ve generated to how many plants you’ve got.
Every time you modify the planet like this, you increase your terraform rating. You play as one of a suite of mega-corporations, each with a unique ability, and the game sees you playing cards to do things like seed the planet with algae to generate oxygen or crash an asteroid onto the surface to raise the temperature.
The basic aim is to accrue the highest 'terraform rating' by, er, terraforming Mars the most. This massively popular strategy game was released in 2016, and it’s currently sitting at number five in the BoardGameGeek top 100. Terraforming Mars suffers more from calamity Harolds than most board games. “Harold, you absolute numpty, what have you done? Can anyone remember how much wool I have?” When they’re not being eaten by the dog, they’re being ricocheted off the walls by a careless dice roll or nudged into oblivion by inebriated players slamming into the table on their way back from the loo. On the other hand, what a motherclucking pain in the posterior they are. On the one hand, the tactile sensation of slamming down a plastic train in Ticket to Ride, cutting off your opponent’s train route to their howls of anguish, is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and a feeling that’s near impossible to replicate in videogames. You know, bits - those fiddly counters, miniatures and cubes of plastic, wood or metal (oooh, fancy). Bits are both the joy and bane of board games.
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